A bloody, subversive and darkly funny story of sympathy for the devil as the New York Times-bestselling author turns classic slasher cinema on its head-perfect for fans of Riley Sager and Grady Hendrix.

1989, Lamesa, Texas. A community driven by oil and cotton - a town where everyone knows everyone else's business.

Tolly Driver, seventeen, a good kid with more potential than application, exists on the outskirts with his best friend, Amber. They navigate the hellscape of the teenage social scene, sticking together in a place that doesn't know how to be different.

But when they go to a fateful party at Deek Masterton's house - a party that ends in a series of gruesome, brutal and extravagant murders - Tolly's world gets flipped upside-down. Because some slashers are born in violence and retribution, some were born that way - and some were just in the wrong place, at the wrong time...

Stephen Graham Jones is the New York Times bestselling author of novels, collections, novellas, and comic books, including The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, Earthdivers, and The Only Good Indians. He has won the Los Angeles Times Ray Bradbury Prize, the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award, five Bram Stoker® Awards, three Shirley Jackson Awards, the British Fantasy Award, the Nebula Award, the Locus Award, the Independent Publishers Award for Multicultural Fiction, and more. Stephen lives and teaches in Boulder, Colorado.