My Heart is a Chainsaw

My Heart is a Chainsaw is a 2021 horror novel by Stephen Graham Jones and the first book in The Indian Lake Trilogy. The book is the winner of the 2021 Bram Stoker Award for Novel.

My Heart is a Chainsaw
First edition (UK)
AuthorStephen Graham Jones
Audio read byCara Gee
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
SeriesThe Indian Lake Trilogy
GenreHorror
PublisherGallery/Saga Press (US)
Titan Books (UK)
Publication date
2021
Media typePrint, ebook, audiobook
Pages416 pages
ISBN1982137630 First edition hardback
Followed byDon't Fear the Reaper 

Synopsis

Per the official synopsis:[1]

Jade Daniels is an angry, half-Indian outcast with an abusive father, an absent mother, and an entire town that wants nothing to do with her. She lives in her own world, a world in which protection comes from an unusual source: horror movies…especially the ones where a masked killer seeks revenge on a world that wronged them. And Jade narrates the quirky history of Proofrock as if it is one of those movies. But when blood actually starts to spill into the waters of Indian Lake, she pulls us into her dizzying, encyclopedic mind of blood and masked murderers, and predicts exactly how the plot will unfold.

Release

My Heart is a Chainsaw was first published in the United States on August 31, 2021, in hardback and ebook formats through Gallery/Saga Press.[1][2] An audiobook adaptation narrated by Cara Gee was released simultaneously through Simon & Schuster Audio.[3] A paperback edition of the book was released on March 29, 2022.[4]

Reception

Critical reception for the book was positive. The novel received praise from NPR and the Washington Post, the former of which called it a "beautiful love letter to horror movies."[5][6] Rolling Stone praised My Heart is a Chainsaw for being "both an homage to this trope and a big old “fuck you” to the concept that only good girls can prevail".[7]

Awards
  • Bram Stoker Award for Novel (2021, won)[8]

References
  1. Jones, Stephen Graham (2021). My heart is a chainsaw. New York. ISBN 978-1-9821-3763-2. OCLC 1201300287.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  2. Jones, Stephen Graham (2021). My heart is a chainsaw. Titan Books. ISBN 978-1-78909-810-5. OCLC 1243908963.
  3. My heart Is a chainsaw, 2021, ISBN 978-1-7971-2332-5, OCLC 1311440138, retrieved 2022-07-02
  4. Jones, Stephen Graham (2022). My heart is a chainsaw. New York. ISBN 978-1-9821-3763-2. OCLC 1201300287.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  5. Iglesias, Gabino (2021-09-01). "Slasher Films Provide The Lens That Frames This Horror Story". NPR. Retrieved 2022-07-02.
  6. "Review | Stephen Graham Jones's 'My Heart Is a Chainsaw' will delight horror movie fans". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2022-07-02.
  7. Ehrlich, Brenna (2021-09-09). "Horror Novel 'My Heart Is a Chainsaw' Gives Us a New Kind of Final Girl". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2022-07-02.
  8. Pavlik, Tina (2022-05-16). "2021 Bram Stoker Awards® Winners". Horror Writers Association. Retrieved 2022-07-02.
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