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

by Stephen Graham Jones

God smiles on drunks and Indians.

It's almost October though, and horror is my religion.

Can I not celebrate orthodoxly and honor my church's holy days?

in the slasher, wrongs are always punished.

all the dead people are people who were asking for it. Which is my argument in a gory nutshell.

job volunteering somewhere in town.

churches, in spite of their own good intentions, have their own bad history.

volunteering…

high school library,

thrift store

animal shelter

good and necessary work,

final girls are the vessel we keep all our hope in. Bad guys don't just die by themselves,

Sometimes they need help in the form of a furie running at them, her mouth open in scream, her eyes white hot, her heart forever pure.

Nothing just pops into existence. Everything comes from somewhere. It’s all got a story. Just a matter of if we’re committed enough to dig it up.”

“History needs documentation to be history,”

haunted houses are just stand-ins for—”

rape-revenge,

rape-revenge is where a raped woman is left for dead but climbs back to life to take brutal revenge on her attackers, often using poetic justice, and usually a lot of primal screaming.

if rape-revenge is going to be slasher-adjacent,”

“then you’re saying the rape i...

“And you’re saying that this woman, she becomes the spirit of ven...

“All that’s missing is… i...

stewardship.