And with the new girl here, the slashing can finally start. This new girl at school exudes Final Girl energy-she’s beautiful and morally pure, compassionate and friendly even to Jade. The only thing missing is a hero for the slasher story: the Final Girl. For high school senior Jade Daniels-known to her peers and teachers as the weird “horror girl” and social outcast-this is the town’s only selling point. The rural Idaho town of Proofrock is ripe for a slasher story-with its myriad local legends, abandoned summer camp where a violent tragedy occurred, and brand new construction digging up who knows what in the previously untouched forest of the national park. My Heart Is a Chainsaw came out in August of 2021 and is a brilliant self-aware homage to the horror genre.
Reading his latest novel has only confirmed that assessment. From the moment I read The Only Good Indians just over a year ago, I knew that Stephen Graham Jones was one of the horror writers to be watching right now. What if your life suddenly turned into a slasher movie? For most of us, that idea is fodder for our most terrifying nightmares, but Jade Daniels is thrilled by the prospect in Stephen Graham Jones’s My Heart Is a Chainsaw.
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