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Stephen Graham Jones Explores a New Side of Horror in 'I Was a Teenage Slasher'

A small Texas town in the late 1980s, two teenagers on the outside of the social scene, and a curse for revenge.

That's the setup for Stephen Graham Jones' new novel, I Was a Teenage Slasher. But as he tells NPR's Ayesha Rascoe, the classic slasher tale at the heart of Jones' book comes with a twist for both the reader and Jones himself as the writer.