I Was A Teenage Slasher – Stephen Graham Jones

When Texas teen Tolly Driver gets infected during a massacre at a high school party, he turns into a slasher, compelled to exact revenge on the classmates who nearly killed him.  His new powers allow him to fulfill all of the tropes of the genre, but he runs into one problem: his “final girl” turns out to be his best friend.  Can he avoid his new nature long enough to keep her alive?

I Was a Teenage Slasher, by Stephen Graham Jones, was a Goodreads Choice Awards nominee last year for favorite horror.  It certainly took a new approach to the genre, where becoming a slasher was a physical disease and not something one chose to do.  I enjoyed it, but it never sucked me all the way in.