Stephen Graham Jones is said to have reinvented the slasher genre. His latest novel, I Was a Teenage Slasher, puts the reader directly into the mind of a killer.
The bestselling horror author is said to have reinvented the slasher genre. He joins Q guest host Talia Schlanger to talk about his latest novel, I Was a Teenage Slasher, which puts the reader directly into the mind of a killer. "Pranks are really important in the slasher," he says. "There's some terrible joke that goes awry and injures someone, or permanently disfigures them, or psychologically scars them. Ten years later, at prom, they come back and get their vengeance.
"He has more or less become infected with this need for justice," Jones says. "It's nothing that he felt welling up inside him. He was happy to let the prank pass, to let it wash off of him. But because he's in the genre he's in, he doesn't have that option. He has to go out at night, become a slasher take care of business."came out in 1996, he went to see it in the theatre for seven straight nights.
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