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Gorilla

  • Is Gorilla a Zombie Book?

    At first glance, Gorilla seems like a zombie novel. The story is filled with terror. People change in seconds, turning violent and unrecognizable. Crowds scream and scatter as neighbors become attackers. The pages are thick with blood, chaos, and fear. It feels like a classic zombie apocalypse. But these creatures are not undead. They are

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  • Now Is the Time for Monsters

    We have always told stories to understand fear. Around ancient fires, in the flickering torchlight of castles, and later in the dim glow of movie theaters, humanity shaped its deepest anxieties into creatures. We gave our fears teeth and claws, wings and fangs, scales and shadows. We called them monsters, but really, they were always

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  • Modern Monsters: A Trilogy of Fear

    Nightmares are not fiction. They are truths that bleed through our dreams, warnings we cannot always name. Glow begins there, in the still hours of the night, where fear has no shape until it presses its weight on your chest. Sleep paralysis, shadow figures, the demon crouched at the edge of your bed. Science gives

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  • Horror as a Mirror

    Horror has always been more than entertainment. At its core, it is a mirror that reflects the fears buried in our collective heart. Every great horror story grows from something real inside us, a shadow of the anxieties we live with. That is why these stories never die. They adapt, change, and take on new

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  • An Open Letter to My Readers: Why Gorilla Had to Be This Way

    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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  • How Safe Do You Really Think You Are?

    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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  • GORILLA gets released into the wild!

    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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  • GORILLA UNLEASHED: THE MONSTER IS ALREADY HERE

    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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  • Adults Only

    Let’s address this upfront—my upcoming book Gorilla, set to release in June, is intended for an adult audience. It features explicit sexual content and intense scenes of violence. This is a work of horror in its truest form, crafted for a wide range of adult readers. Every aspect of the narrative is deliberately included to

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