Books like The Final Girls
Ten years after Quincy Carpenter became one of the 'Final Girls', three young women who each survived a massacre, she has a baking blog and a quiet life in Manhattan, until one of the others is found dead and the third, Sam, turns up at her door.
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My Heart Is a Chainsaw
Jade Daniels, a half-Indian seventeen-year-old in the lake town of Proofrock, Idaho, knows everything about slasher films, and when people start dying just as rich newcomers build mansions across the lake, she is sure the pattern is playing out for real.
The Final Girl Support Group
Lynnette Tarkington survived a massacre in 1988 and has spent the years since in a support group with five other final girls whose ordeals became horror movie franchises, and when one of them misses a meeting, she is sure someone is coming for them all.
Survive the Night
In 1991, Charlie Jordan, a college student whose best friend was murdered by a campus killer, takes a ride home to Ohio from a stranger off the ride board, and begins to suspect he is the killer.
Psycho
Mary Crane, on the run with money stolen from her boss, stops for the night at an out-of-the-way motel run by Norman Bates, a lonely man who lives with his domineering mother in the house above.
Hide
Fourteen contestants are sent into an abandoned amusement park for a week-long game of hide and seek with a big cash prize, and Mack, who survived something terrible as a child by hiding, means to win.
There's Someone Inside Your House
In a small Nebraska town someone starts killing the students of Osborne High one by one, and Makani Young, who moved there from Hawaii to escape her past, is in the killer's sights.
Before I Go to Sleep
Every morning Christine Lucas wakes up with no memory of the last twenty years, and the man beside her has to explain that he is her husband, until she finds a journal she has been keeping in secret.
Clown in a Cornfield
Quinn Maybrook and her father move to Kettle Springs, Missouri, a dying farm town split between its older residents and the teenagers who prank them, and soon someone dressed as Frendo, the clown mascot of the town's shuttered factory, starts killing the kids.
Darker Than Night
Frank Quinn, a New York homicide detective whose career was ended by a frame-up, is offered a way back when a killer the papers call the Night Prowler starts slipping into couples' homes.
The Woman in the Window
An agoraphobic Manhattan psychologist watches her new neighbours across the street through a camera lens and is certain she just saw the wife being murdered.
The Last House Guest
In Littleport, a Maine resort town, Avery Greer, a local who manages the rental houses of the wealthy Loman family, is left under suspicion after their daughter Sadie, her best friend, is found dead the night of the end-of-summer party.
The House in the Pines
Seven years after her best friend died suddenly in front of a strange young man named Frank, Maya, now in Boston and quietly going through withdrawal, sees a video online of another woman collapsing in Frank's company.