I Was A Teenage Slasher

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By Stephen Graham Jones

Publisher Description

A USA TODAY Bestseller
An Alex Award Winner

From New York Times bestselling horror writer Stephen Graham Jones comes a classic slasher story with a twist—perfect for fans of Adam Cesare and Grady Hendrix.

1989, Lamesa, Texas. A small west Texas town driven by oil and cotton—and a place where everyone knows everyone else’s business. So it goes for Tolly Driver, a good kid with more potential than application, seventeen, and about to be cursed to kill for revenge. Here Stephen Graham Jones explores the Texas he grew up in, and shared sense of unfairness of being on the outside through the slasher horror Jones loves, but from the perspective of the killer, Tolly, writing his own autobiography. Find yourself rooting for a killer in this summer teen movie of a novel gone full blood-curdling tragic.

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1991 Reviews

3.5

Gunnar M

Created about 5 hours ago

“let me say definitely not what i was expecting what so ever but still good time, a few odd bits that made less since. But all ive gotta say is i still very much enjoyed it.”

Its-shrewsbury

Created about 9 hours ago

“Neat premise, slightly confusing execution. I can tell Stephen Graham jones put his love for his home state into this book, like how detailed he is with the setting and the objects prevalent in the story (like oil drills, cattle ranch stock tanks, peanuts n’ coke). The audiobook VA also gave a good voice to MC Tolly, even if it didn’t quite work perfectly for me on the more tense or gory moments which themselves were very well executed, and I could SEE the slasher action happening. Having read SGJ in the past, the supernatural aspect of the book wasn’t surprising to me, but i didn’t wholly expect it either, given this was marketed to be a kind of straight up slasher. The marketing also suggested I would be rooting for tolly but I’m not?? Am I sad and terrified of what’s happening to him? Yes! Is his killing spree something I’m rooting him on for? No! He’s clearly just as upset about it as we are! Also, the flow of the story could get confusing due to the style of the writing. I was very unclear *SPOILERS* about Tolly’s “death” in the end. Killing him with his nut allergy was a stroke of genius from amber, and when tolly says “big scrap yard in the sky”, well, that implies he’s dead and amber, the final girl best friend, has won, right? No! He’s alive! Alive and not fully driven on killing his final victim for the “sequel”, which is ALSO confusing bc I thought that he was getting transported around to where he needed to be, unconscious of himself and his wants, so he could kill, but he jumps a state line and that stops?? And then he says he’ll kill himself with peanut butter when amber comes to see the scrap yard, which he somehow prophesies (i think) tho we’ve been told slashers don’t really die until they’ve completed their mission. *END SPOILERS* The rules of what a slasher can and can’t do, when they can and can’t do it, and how much control the host has over their slasher influence was very unclear. What shines through in this book is the descriptions and the emotions of the MC.”

Amanda Best

Created about 16 hours ago

“Wow!! A very fast paced horror story. Immediately got started on a stong note from page one. The middle got slow, and picked back up. The descriptions are so very disturbing, graphic, wild, and bizzare but somehow I got sucked into it. Surely not like anything I’ve read in a long time. Definitely needs trigger warnings as well.”

Believable Strong villain Clever plotting Fast-paced Rustic Vivid descriptions Descriptive Death Murder Violence

Carrie B

Created about 23 hours ago

Ashley Epp

Created about 24 hours ago

“For horror movie fans you’ll see the plot twist coming a mile away, doesn’t mean it isn’t a fun read though”

Morally ambiguous Original Clichéd Slow start, strong finish Abuse Death Violence

About Stephen Graham Jones

Stephen Graham Jones is the New York Times bestselling author of The Only Good Indians, My Heart Is a Chainsaw, and I Was a Teenage Slasher. He has been an NEA fellowship recipient and a recipient of several awards including the Ray Bradbury Award from the Los Angeles Times, the Bram Stoker Award, the Shirley Jackson Award, the Jesse Jones Award for Best Work of Fiction from the Texas Institute of Letters, the Independent Publishers Award for Multicultural Fiction, and the Alex Award from American Library Association. He is the Ivena Baldwin Professor of English at the University of Colorado Boulder.