I Was A Teenage Slasher, Stephen Graham Jones
I Was A Teenage Slasher, Stephen Graham Jones
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I Was A Teenage Slasher

Author: Stephen Graham Jones

Narrator: Michael Crouch, Stephen Graham Jones

Unabridged: 11 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/16/2024


Synopsis

*USA TODAY Bestseller * Alex Award Winner *

From New York Times bestselling horror writer Stephen Graham Jones comes a “viciously clever” (The New York Times Book Review) classic slasher story with a twist—perfect for fans of Adam Cesare and Grady Hendrix.

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).

About Stephen Graham Jones

Stephen Graham Jones is the New York Times bestselling author of The Only Good Indians, My Heart Is a Chainsaw, and I Was a Teenage Slasher. He has been an NEA fellowship recipient and a recipient of several awards including the Ray Bradbury Award from the Los Angeles Times, the Bram Stoker Award, the Shirley Jackson Award, the Jesse Jones Award for Best Work of Fiction from the Texas Institute of Letters, the Independent Publishers Award for Multicultural Fiction, and the Alex Award from American Library Association. He is the Ivena Baldwin Professor of English at the University of Colorado Boulder.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Esta on October 01, 2024

Norman Bates. Michael Myers. Ghostface. Hannibal. Jigsaw Killer. Freddy Krueger. Jason. Leatherface. Aren’t slasher movies and villains such a scream? If you’ve revelled in the antics of these icons over the decades, you’ll recognise all the tropes: from the Final Girl (shoutout to my girls Jamie Le......more

Goodreads review by Sadie on July 10, 2024

This just jumped to the top of my favorite books by Stephen Graham Jones. I feel strongly about several of his books but you add the power of love (Huey Lewis) with a young male protagonist for a coming-of-age, reluctant serial slasher + best friend story and I'm all the way in. -Tolly Driver and his......more

Goodreads review by Lala on January 10, 2025

How Stephen Graham Jones manages to consistently write these horror novels that are equally unique, heartfelt, and also so FUN is beyond me. No one else is doing it quite like this. Favourite book of 2024.......more


Quotes

"Texas-born and raised, narrator Michael Crouch draws on his roots to bring the title character of this audiobook to life...There’s vomit and blood aplenty, but Crouch’s light touch leaves listeners remembering the love: for the small West Texas town Tolly can never return to and for his best friend, who tried to save Tolly from his fate. Unexpectedly sweet."