I Was a Teenage Slasher (preorder)

(preorder—to be published in late 2024/early 2025)

Dust jacket and interior illustrations by Dirk Berger.

Published by SST Publications.

“Stephen Graham Jones’s viciously clever, over-the-top, genre-skewing new novel turns a gruesome murderer into 'your friendly neighborhood slasher'. . . spectacularly engaging narrative voice, which is imbued with a street-smart lyricism that makes even the loftiest observations glitter like knife blades.”—New York Times Book Review

1989, Lamesa, Texas. A small west Texas 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 summer teen movie of a novel gone full blood-curdling tragic.


Signed Limited Hardcover Edition:

• Limited to only 500 signed and hand-numbered copies
• Personally signed by Stephen Graham Jones on a specially designed full-colour illustrated signature page
• Larger 6.14” x 9.21” trim size
• Printed on a heavier 100gsm acid-free paper
• Bound in premium cloth with coloured head and tail bands
• Hot foil stamping on the front boards and spine
• Offset printed and bound with full-colour endpapers
• Ribbon page marker
• Sewn binding for increased durability
• Featuring seven full colour interior illustrations printed on a special silk art stock & tipped into the book
• Dust jacket and interior artwork by Dirk Berger

From Booklist (Starred Review):

“Readers will watch something original emerge before their eyes, realizing why everyone needs to be as obsessed with the Slasher as Jones is himself. Suggest to every reader who loves a perfectly rendered time and place or just wants a chilling, captivating, and thought-provoking story where every detail matters and every page is worth their time…”

From Library Journal (Starred Review):

“This novel in the style of an autobiography pays homage to the slasher flicks of the 1980s and ’90s while creating something entirely new... Grimly humorous and filled with surprising turns, this novel is poised to become a summer-reading hit and a book club favorite.”

From Publishers Weekly:

“Bestseller Jones (the Indian Lake trilogy) again riffs on 1980s slasher movies in this indulgent bloodbath… fans of meta horror will find a lot to love as Jones remixes well-worn tropes with glee.”