Having broken into the horror scene via his spine-tingling sapphic novella Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke, Eric LaRocca continues to prove himself a king in the modern splatterpunk court. New novel We Are Always Tender With Our Dead gets a publisher-ese description that calls it “Michael McDowell’s Blackwater meets Clive Barker’s The Great and Secret Show,” and follows a tale of queer horror in a small New Hampshire town. To discuss this New England scare, LaRocca sits down with Austin’s own Gabino Iglesias (The Devil Takes You Home) for a discussion and booksigning. – James Scott