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

by Stephen Graham Jones

“You said this place was haunted,” Shooting Glasses tells her. “By all the ghosts of who everybody used to want to be, before they died inside,” Jade says.

“Horror’s not a symptom, it’s a love affair.”

and where do people who go with the flow always end up? The drain, yes.

the final girl goes from innocence and obliviousness into a series of staged confrontations with mortality, menace, danger—a funhouse of worse and worse horror—until she finally curls into herself to hide. But that’s really a chrysalis. One she claws out of as an angel of death.