I Was a Teenage Slasher

Stephen Graham Jones

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Miscellaneous
13 January 2026

Thriller & suspense; Horror & ghost stories; Horror

*USA TODAY Bestseller
* Alex Award Winner
* From New York Times bestselling horror writer Stephen Graham Jones comes a ""viciously clever"" (The New York Times Book Review) classic slasher story with a twist--perfect for fans of Adam Cesare and Grady Hendrix.

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"" (The New York Times).

By: Stephen Graham Jones
Imprint: Miscellaneous
Dimensions: Height: 213mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 24mm
Weight: 363g
ISBN: 9781668022269
ISBN 10: 1668022265
Pages: 384
Publication Date: 13 January 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Stephen Graham Jones is the New York Times bestselling author of The Only Good Indians, My Heart Is a Chainsaw, and I Was a Teenage Slasher. He has been an NEA fellowship recipient and a recipient of several awards including the Ray Bradbury Award from the Los Angeles Times, the Bram Stoker Award, the Shirley Jackson Award, the Jesse Jones Award for Best Work of Fiction from the Texas Institute of Letters, the Independent Publishers Award for Multicultural Fiction, and the Alex Award from American Library Association. He is the Ivena Baldwin Professor of English at the University of Colorado Boulder.