I read Grady Hendrix’s Paperbacks from Hell annually every October so I had to see his fiction. And it’s just as wild and witty as his nonfic.  

The Final Girl Support Group goes behind the scene of what happens to those final girls that kill their killer (and kill the sequel killer) and survive traumatic massacres. How do they grow up?

. . . . With issues as with the case of the MC, Lynette whose paranoid and withdrawn and constantly prepped with a gun just in case. 

But it seems like there’s another killer and he’s picking off the support group one by one. And like in any good horror, Lynette is the only one who sees the danger. Now I won’t say more cuz that would just be giving away spoilers. But I will say, Hendrix deftly uses the tropes to his advantage with each girl surviving a thinly veiled take of classic film like Chainsaw Massacre, Nightmare on Elm, Halloween etc. as well the suspected killer hops from one to another so you’re like “of course it’s that one” but wait bam surprise twist! 

Also had some interesting things to say about the nature of horror and how it is primarily women are affected. Much like in real life and other profound things that I won’t get into here. 

As for the horror, I can’t be the true judge of that as I took precautions in reading this during the daytime and watching copious sitcoms afterwards but it does have gorey descriptions and nightmarish murderbilia, sociopaths, necrophilia and more. 

Really this is very good for anyone whose a fan of the genre. 5 bloody knives