Books

  • I can’t even begin to tell you the scope of my new book Grace. It feels vast and uncontainable at times, yet it remains grounded in the most intimate way possible because the story is always brought back to people and their lives. That is where the true terror and the true beauty reside. At

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  • I write because I love it. Because something in me has always needed to create. The words come whether I want them to or not, and over time I’ve learned to stop resisting and just let them flow. But I won’t pretend I’m above it all. I have an ego. I want to be remembered.

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  • (Thank you Morgan Ellis for providing this insightful literary critique of Gorilla.) Gorilla by Steven LaChance: A Necessary NightmareReview by Morgan Ellis A gospel of madness. A symphony of dread. A monster built from truth. Steven LaChance’s Gorilla is a blistering descent into the darkest corners of power, identity, and engineered chaos. It’s a supernatural

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  • Dear Readers, On June 29, in Indianapolis, a lay pastor stood before a congregation during a “Men’s Preaching Night” at Sure Foundation Baptist Church and told LGBTQ+ people to “shoot yourself in the back of the head.” That’s what he said. From the pulpit. In a church. A so-called sanctuary. This is why I wrote

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  • Gorilla’s Bite

    I’ve been working on Gorilla for a long time. The timing never felt right, so I’d stop writing and push it away. But now? There has never been a more perfect moment for this book to exist. I’m sure Gorilla will find its way onto banned lists—and honestly, I’m okay with that. If it does,

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  • The Real-Life Horrors Behind My New Book, Gorilla Take a moment and really think about this. You’re at a park. A stranger bumps into you, just a casual brush. But with that touch, they smear something onto your skin. It feels slick, maybe slimy. You might not even notice. A few hours later, you start

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  • You know what I love most about writing? It allows me to look at things I might never have considered otherwise. It opens doors in the mind and lets me step into different shoes, different lives. This same quality has also drawn criticism toward my work now and then. And I get it, especially from

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  • JULY 1, 2025: GORILLA gets released into the wild!Are you ready? THE MONSTER IS ALREADY HERE From the author of the classic true-life haunted house book “The Uninvited” and the terrifying horror-thriller “Glow,” best-selling horror author Steven LaChance presents his most frightening work yet: “Gorilla,” the second book in his Modern Monsters series. What if

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  • It’s Alive

    You know, diving into MK-Ultra for my book Gorilla was like falling into a pit that keeps widening—what starts as a grim curiosity quickly unravels into a tapestry of cruelty you can’t unsee. People tripping on LSD without warning, their minds gnawed by endless hallucinations while detached scientists chart every twitch of their brainwaves. Others

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  • From the author of the classic true-life haunted house book The Uninvited and the bestselling horror-thriller Glow, master modern-day horror storyteller Steven LaChance delivers his most terrifying work yet. What if MK-Ultra’s drug-and-mind-control experiments never ended but fell into the hands of a crazed Christian evangelist named Michael Neville? Detective Vincent Rossi returns to the

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