My Heart Is a Chainsaw
Stephen Graham Jones has a new horror novel coming out in early 2023; it’s called Don’t Fear the Reaper, and it’s the sequel to his award-winning 2021 release My Heart Is a Chainsaw, a book multiple people told me to read when it came out, claiming they knew that I would love it. I finally followed their advice in 2022, and by the power of Jason Voorhees—they were right. A book about loving slasher movies so much that you start to see the signs that you’re living inside a slasher movie (even when everyone around you thinks you’re nuts), My Heart Is a Chainsaw introduces a fierce heroine in Jade Daniels and an iconically spooky setting in Indian Lake. It also reinforces the idea that underneath all those stubborn bloodstains, the horror genre is capable of weaving some of the most powerfully human stories around. Bring on part two! – Cheryl Eddy
