#my heart is a chainsaw
can’t stop thinking about Stephen Graham Jones’ The Only Good Indians since I read it over new year’s. Just full to the brimwith gorgeous horror/slasher imagery that I can’t get out of my head, so this piece is probably the first of several. :D
To anyone who saw this and loved it and ended up reading the book, It’s the release day for Stephen Graham Jones’ next novel, My Heart is a Chainsaw! It is a dense, chaotic love letter to slashers, and to obsessively nerdy teenagers who both areandaren’tthe hero of their own story, and I loved every minute of it. I was lucky enough to get an ARC from Jones, but you KNOW I’m gonna buy a proper hardcopy for myself now that it’s out proper. :D
An absolutely fantasticinterview with SGJ in GQ this week: https://www.gq.com/story/stephen-graham-jones-my-heart-is-a-chainsaw-interview
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“Horror’s not a symptom, it’s a love affair!”
I finished Stephen Graham Jones’ novel, “My Heart is a Chainsaw” about a week ago and I still have a lot of feelings about it. I like horror but I’ve never really enjoyed slashers and to read a slasher instead of watching one I think is what made this book so captivating. It’s dark, and beautiful, and heartbreaking. the main character, Jade, is one of a handful of main characters I’ve ever loved unapologetically in my life. Hot damn, Stephen Graham Jones just understood what it’s like to be weird, neurodivergent teen goth in a small town.
