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This is the slasher send-up I wanted

My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones

July 23, 2022 by Mobius_Walker 3 Comments

TW: abuse, alcoholism, self-harm, suicide BINGO: COLD [a portion of the story takes place in the frozen Idaho winter; also there are some cold-blooded murders] Jade is obsessed with horror movies. Specifically she loves slashers. She knows everything there is to know about the movies, the plots, the directors, the film-making process, everything. It is her entire life and personality, to a fault. She doesn’t have much else to do in a small town in Proofrock, Idaho. She even weaves in her slasher obsession into her […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fiction, Horror Tagged With: body horror, cbr14bingo, Final Girl, slasher, Stephen Graham Jones, Trigger Warning

Mobius_Walker's CBR14 Review No:16 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fiction, Horror · Tags: body horror, cbr14bingo, Final Girl, slasher, Stephen Graham Jones, Trigger Warning ·
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Finally a Book I Could Attach Myself To…

March 20, 2018 by Melina 2 Comments

Quincy Carpenter is a Final Girl. If you watch horror or slasher movies, you know that the Final Girl is the one who manages to survive against the odds while all of her friends die horrific deaths.  Quincy became one after all of her friends were slaughtered on what should’ve been a fun break from college at a mountain house in the Poconos.  Ten years later, Quincy has stayed out of the public eye, fallen in love and achieved success as a baker.  The almost […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror, Mystery Tagged With: #CBR10, Final Girl, horror, Melina, Riley Sager, slasher

Melina's CBR10 Review No:8 · Genres: Fiction, Horror, Mystery · Tags: #CBR10, Final Girl, horror, Melina, Riley Sager, slasher ·
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