About this Event
We are hosting Eric LaRocca and Laura Purcell In-Conversation event at The Elgin - Maida Vale which will be moderated by Gemma Amor!
Eric LaRocca
Eric LaRocca (he/they) is a 3x Bram Stoker Award® finalist, a Shirley Jackson Award nominee, and a Splatterpunk Award winner. He was named by Esquire as one of the “Writers Shaping Horror’s Next Golden Age” and praised by Locus as “one of the strongest and most unique voices in contemporary horror fiction.” LaRocca’s notable works include Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke, Everything the Darkness Eats, and At Dark, I Become Loathsome. He currently resides in Boston, Massachusetts, with his partner.
Laura Purcell
Laura Purcell is a former bookseller living in Colchester, Essex with her husband and pet guinea pigs.
She began her career with two historical novels about the Hanoverian monarchs, Queen of Bedlam and Mistress of the Court before her break-out Gothic ghost story The Silent Companions.
The Silent Companions won the WHSmith Thumping Good Read Award in 2018 and was shortlisted for the Goldsboro Glass Bell. It was selected for both the Radio 2 Book Club and Zoe Ball's ITV Book Club.
Her other Gothic titles include The Corset, Bone China, The Shape of Darkness (winner of Historical Crime Book of the Year at the Fingerprint Awards 2022) and The Whispering Muse (winner of The Dracula Society's Children of the Night Award 2023) .
Laura's short stories have been published in a number of collections including the Sunday Times best-selling The Haunting Season and The Winter Spirits. She worked as lead writer on Roanoke Falls, a Realm horror podcast executive produced by John Carpenter and Sandy King Carpenter. It won a silver Signal Award for Best Scripted Fiction.
Laura's YA debut Moonstone was published in May 2024 by HarperCollins' Magpie imprint.
Gemma Amor
is a Bram Stoker and British Fantasy Award Nominated horror author, illustrator, voice actor and podcaster, based in Bristol, in the UK. She was named one of the ‘‘ by Esquire Magazine, and recently featured in Ellen Datlow’s prestigious ‘.
Ticketing Options:
Entrance + Copies of We Are Always Tender With Our Dead and House Of Splinters - £26
Entrance + Choice of one of the headline books - £18
Entrance only - £10
Venue Information
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Elgin - Maida Vale, 255 Elgin Avenue, London, United Kingdom
GBP 11.55 to GBP 28.88
