The Texas Book Club’s October Pick Is Going to Scare You

Digital subscribers can listen to this article. Subscribe today for unlimited access to Texas Monthly. Already a subscriber? Log in. This October, the Texas Book Club will face the ultimate horror: teenagehood. This month’s pick, I Was a Teenage Slasher, by Stephen Graham Jones, takes on the greasy, awkward phase that is puberty—with a side of murder. Set in a small West Texas town, Jones’s thriller follows a pair of teenage outcasts as they navigate Tolly Driver’s transformation into a horror trope. The book is told from Tolly’s perspective as he recounts a bloody summer spent alongside his best friend, Amber Dennison.“The thing I love about Jones’s books is that they are never really about what they are supposed to be about,” said Susannah Auby, chief impact…

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