Highly recommend I Was A Teenager Slasher by Stephen Graham Jones.
The reviews on this book are kinda mixed but honestly, I’m on page 290 (almost done with it) and I highly recommend it. If you like slasher movies for more than the killing, I actually do recommend this.
This book is both, a love letter and a psychoanalysis on the slasher genre. But above it all is not about a slasher. It’s about becoming a slasher.  I think this is the key difference for a lot of readers. You are supposed to spend a lot of time in his head because it pretty much paints the picture of how we end up how we end up. I’m trying not to give spoilers here.
But it also tries to explain a lot of of the slasher movie cliché that you are here like how is it that they never miss? How is it that they always know how to appear? All of that stuff. It actually makes a really good entertaining case because you’re still seeing it from his perspective as a teenager. He’s also super witty, petty and sarcastic and dealing with a lot of fucking trauma.
All I can say is it’s a bunch of slasher logic, but you actually understand the root of how a lot of these slashers become slashers, which often gets overlooked. We sometimes forget that Jason “drowned” but didn’t and saw his mom getting 💀 because she thought he drowned! In a way he was a victim himself. So it’s interesting how the genre always focuses on what slashes are doing what they’re doing, but never on how they become slashers.  That’s basically what the book is doing.
As someone who likes slasher movies when they’re well-made, I’m actually very grateful for this book because it pretty much reinforces that 1) I do love a good slasher/horror/thriller piece. 2) that the genre has been so bastardized to the point that it crosses over to blood and gore porn….
Anyhow, Tolly you did nothing wrong 😂🤠
look if I can accept Kovacs killing people and martians a slasher is nothing lol Jason is also innocent
