I Was a Teenage Slasher

By: Stephen Graham Jones

Published by S&S/Saga Press, 2026-01-13

<b>*<i>USA TODAY</i> Bestseller * Alex Award Winner *</b><br> <br><b>From <i>New York Times</i> bestselling horror writer Stephen Graham Jones comes a “viciously clever” (<i>The</i> <i>New York Times Book Review</i>) classic slasher story with a twist—perfect for fans of Adam Cesare and Grady Hendrix.</b><br><br>1989, Lamesa, Texas. A small 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 “playful, self-aware, and remarkably gory horror novel” (<i>The New York Times</i>).