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

by Stephen Graham Jones

You don’t remake The Exorcist, you don’t sequel Rosemary’s Baby, and you don’t be disrespectful about soil an actual slasher has walked across. Some things you just don’t touch.

Real final girls only want the horror to be over. They don’t stay up late praying to Craven and Carpenter to send one of their savage angels down, just for a weekend maybe. Just for one night. Just for one dance, please? One last dance?

He also famously said that history is a pack of lies about events that never happened, told by people who weren’t there.”

If you cry writing it, maybe someone will cry reading it. It’s more than she could have hoped for, is all she was wishing for.