I Was A Teenage Slasher
*USA TODAY Bestseller * Alex Award Winner *
The “viciously clever, over-the-top, genre-skewing” (New York Times Book Review) classic slasher story with a twist from Stephen Graham Jones, the master of modern horror and bestselling author of The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, The Only Good Indians, and the Indian Lake trilogy.
1989, Lamesa, Texas. A small town driven by oil and cotton—and a place where everyone knows everyone else’s business. So it goes for Tolly Driver, a good kid with more potential than application, seventeen, and about to be cursed to kill for revenge. Here Stephen Graham Jones explores the Texas he grew up in, and shared sense of unfairness of being on the outside through the slasher horror Jones loves, but from the perspective of the killer, Tolly, writing his own autobiography. Find yourself rooting for a killer in this “playful, self-aware, and remarkably gory horror novel” (The New York Times).
The “viciously clever, over-the-top, genre-skewing” (New York Times Book Review) classic slasher story with a twist from Stephen Graham Jones, the master of modern horror and bestselling author of The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, The Only Good Indians, and the Indian Lake trilogy.
1989, Lamesa, Texas. A small town driven by oil and cotton—and a place where everyone knows everyone else’s business. So it goes for Tolly Driver, a good kid with more potential than application, seventeen, and about to be cursed to kill for revenge. Here Stephen Graham Jones explores the Texas he grew up in, and shared sense of unfairness of being on the outside through the slasher horror Jones loves, but from the perspective of the killer, Tolly, writing his own autobiography. Find yourself rooting for a killer in this “playful, self-aware, and remarkably gory horror novel” (The New York Times).
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Readers say *I Was a Teenage Slasher* offers a fresh take on slasher horror by exploring events through the killer’s eyes, blending 80s nostalgia, sma...
This reads like lesser King and that’s not a compliment. Lesser King is like…the story never leaves second gear, very slow and/or there’s cool ideas there but! the focus is on something else??
I thought of a lot of films that remix the slasher genre that are more my style than this book but I think people who didn’t or did enjoy this book would enjoy these movies:
Cabin in the Woods
Friday the 13th Part VI (this is when Jason Voorhees transformed from human slasher to superhuman slasher)
In A Violent Nature
Scream
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 4 stars
I love how good horror leaves you feeling uncomfortable and creeped out. I Was a Teenage Slasher is definitely one of the good ones.
The slasher's first person perspective was an incredible way to tell the story. It's got a sort of coming-of-age feel with a gorey and violent twist.
I love how good horror leaves you feeling uncomfortable and creeped out. I Was a Teenage Slasher is definitely one of the good ones.
The slasher's first person perspective was an incredible way to tell the story. It's got a sort of coming-of-age feel with a gorey and violent twist.
What. A. Drag. I thought I was never going to finish this. I wish I could see what all the 5 stars reviews see in this book, but I was bored out of my mind. I think it's time for me to accept that SGJ just isn't the author for me.
This was a great story! The scenes were gory. Very vivid visualization of Texas in 1989. The dialogue was nice. A Slasher book and a hint of underlying romance a little bit.
A nice summer read in Texas.
This plays out almost like a Romeo and Juliet, but Romeo is a Slasher. This is a silly and fun book where we actually really feel bad for believe it or not the Slasher. I definitely enjoyed this book and looking forward to diving into more Stephen Graham Jones novels!
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