![]() It reminded me a little bit of David Robbin’s dreadful Hell- O-Ween. This is a “slasher”, and although I hadn’t ever thought about it much before, Joyride convinced me that I don’t like slashers very much. There’s a backstory given to the murderer, and while it explains his inability to regulate his saliva output, I felt like it passed over a few of the transitional stages between high-school loser and outright murderous ghoul. Once the killing starts, there’s not many directions the story can go, and the rest of the book is rather underwhelming. ![]() As the teens start spreading out, he starts picking them off, dismembering one with a scythe, setting fire to another, and decapitating another with a chainsaw. Unbeknownst to them, the man who works at the graveyard is a hideously mutilated psychopath. When I saw a copy the other day, I jumped at the chance to read it.Ī group of teenagers decide to party in a cemetery. I knew affordable copies are scarce, and I think I had even seen people mention it fondly. The fact that a book is hard to find is often enough to make me want to read it. ![]()
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