My Heart Is a Chainsaw (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #1)

by Stephen Graham Jones

“Can’t I just like horror because it’s great? Does there have to be some big explanation?”

One thing Mr. Holmes told the class one wistful seventh period was that nobody ever makes it past twenty with the same hopes and dreams and certainties they once thought so dear and vital and true at seventeen. Nobody except me, Jade had assured herself, but she’d also had to wonder if that was even a partially original thought—if every other student in history class that day wasn’t thinking the exact same thing.