My Heart is A Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones

My Heart is A Chainsaw by Stephen Graham JonesThe Jordan Peele of horror fiction turns his eye to classic slasher films: Jade is one class away from graduating high school, but that's one class she keeps failing local history. Dragged down by her past, her father and being an outsider, she's composing her epic essay series to save her high school diploma. Jade's topic? The unifying theory of slasher films. In her rapidly gentrifying rural lake town, Jade sees the pattern in recent events that

and allowed the light to shine down to the forest floor and illuminate countless saplings now that a gap has opened in the canopy

gruesome imagery

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in which a glamorous young socialite discovers the haunting secrets of a beautiful old mansion in 1950s Mexico

Christopher Marlowe and Margaret Pole

the two verge toward the one thing both fear they may never truly find again: total intimacy

intensity of feeling and grasp of life's pitiless vitality

luminous and unsettling

from crucifixion or hanging to bombing or mauling by crocodile

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Axel Scheffler and Shaun Tan

she holds out against his demands and threats of abduction and rape