Maul Rats: A Slasher Novel

by Ivy Tholen

to leave the mall. Instead, I opted to stand close by and aggressively

I could’ve died, and rather than asking if I was okay, he stood back and pulled out the popcorn.

He definitely needs to die

My poor cousin Michelle had it way worse than me, though. Her best friend Jenny died the previous year. She stepped off a curb at the local mall and a speeding car mowed her down. She died on the scene, and Michelle had a front-row seat to the carnage. The driver—a kid they went

Coincidence I think Not

Every group needs a punching bag, someone who makes everyone feel like less of a loser.

That's sad but also true

He’d watched Scream. He knew better than to yell at dark figures in empty halls.

I know that right

“Yeah,” he said through a mouth of taco. “Blockbuster sucks. We only rent from Funt Me.” I misheard him and thought he’d cursed. I asked him to repeat himself. “Funt. Me. Video. It’s over by the mall.”

I'm miss blockbusters

This guy was in his late 20s and dressed like a teenager: Mudhoney t-shirt, baggy jeans with holes in the knees, Chucks, a blue flannel tied around his

Sound likes the most 90s outfit ever lmao

“Horror is like a big spiderweb. Older movies influence new ones, trends are ripped off and run into the ground, everything references everything else. One hit like Halloween spawns an entire subgenre, then Elm Street comes along and puts a new spin on it and that gets ripped off. Slumber Party Massacre 2 and Hello Mary Lou Prom Night 2 also both obviously stole from Freddy. And Halloween wasn’t even the first slasher to knock off a bunch of teenagers, it was just the first with a big box office. Black Christmas, Peeping Tom, Psycho, and a whole mess of Italian Giallo came first.”

Good qoute

“You sound like Randy from Scream,” I said. “I am Randy from Scream. You can be too.”

Revived the genre. But there’s so much more out there. We need more people who appreciate stuff like Maniac or Tourist Trap.” He turned to Josh. “And I’m into older women. My girlfriend is 32, and sometimes I think she’s

Niceness should come standard in humans, like air conditioning in a car.

good qoute

They were drenched in black-red blood. It flowed from under a crack in a door marked STAFF ONLY. I flipped over and crab crawled away, scurrying as fast as my limbs could carry me.

Oh dear

“All the mall cameras are fake. I’ve got my own inside, but they’re all pointed toward my store, nothing in the hall.”

How does a mall have fake security cameras?