![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I was convinced that when my parents’ attention was elsewhere, they would grab me. As a kid, they seriously freaked me out in every store we walked into. I don’t know about you, but I’ve always found department store mannequins creepy. The attempted joke plays out in the first two chapters, so it’s not a spoiler to say things don’t go as planned and that the rest of the story builds off of what did or didn’t happen to the mannequin. Three of the teens decide to sneak a mannequin they’d found and played with as kids into the movie theatre their fourth friend works in and plan to use it to cause a ruckus. In this case, the ordinary moment is a simple practical joke between high school friends who have grown up together and know each other almost too well. One of the things I love about pretty much every Stephen Graham Jones book I’ve read is his ability to take very ordinary moments and spin horror out of them. I read it one sitting because I could not let myself look away. Stephen Graham Jones’ Night of the Mannequins is a phenomenally scary take on the monstrous serial killer trope. MY THOUGHTS: Note: I read an electronic advance review copy provided through NetGalley. ![]() 136 pages, Tor.com Publishing, ISBN 9781250752079 (paperback, ebook)ĭESCRIPTION: (from Goodreads): A contemporary horror story where a teen prank goes very wrong and all hell breaks loose: is there a supernatural cause, a psychopath on the loose, or both? ![]()
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