Shirley Jackson meets Friday the 13th in My Heart Is a Chainsaw, written by the New York Times bestselling author of The Only Good Indians Stephen Graham Jones, called “a literary master” by National Book Award winner Tananarive Due and “one of our most talented living writers” by Tommy Orange.Īlma Katsu calls My Heart Is a Chainsaw “a homage to slasher films that also manages to defy and transcend genre.” On the surface is a story of murder in small-town America. The good kind, of course” ( BuzzFeed) from the Jordan Peele of horror literature, Stephen Graham Jones.

The novel received praise from NPR and the Washington Post, the former of which called it a 'beautiful love letter to horror movies.' Rolling Stone praised My Heart is a Chainsaw for being 'both an homage to this trope and a big old “fuck you” to the concept that only good girls can prevail'.In her quickly gentrifying rural lake town Jade sees recent events only her encyclopedic knowledge of horror films could have prepared her for in this latest chilling novel that “will give you nightmares. Reception Ĭritical reception for the book was positive. A paperback edition of the book was released on March 29, 2022. An audiobook adaptation narrated by Cara Gee was released simultaneously through Simon & Schuster Audio. My Heart is a Chainsaw was first published in the United States on August 31, 2021, in hardback and ebook formats through Gallery/Saga Press. But when blood actually starts to spill into the waters of Indian Lake, she pulls us into her dizzying, encyclopedic mind of blood and masked murderers, and predicts exactly how the plot will unfold. And Jade narrates the quirky history of Proofrock as if it is one of those movies. She lives in her own world, a world in which protection comes from an unusual source: horror movies…especially the ones where a masked killer seeks revenge on a world that wronged them. Jade Daniels is an angry, half-Indian outcast with an abusive father, an absent mother, and an entire town that wants nothing to do with her. The book is the winner of the 2021 Bram Stoker Award for Novel.

My Heart is a Chainsaw is a 2021 horror novel by Stephen Graham Jones and the first book in The Indian Lake Trilogy.

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