Series
The Indian Lake Trilogy
Stephen Graham Jones · 3 novels · 2021–2024
My Heart Is a Chainsaw opens Stephen Graham Jones's Indian Lake Trilogy, a 2021 horror novel that won the Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel and drew critical praise for how it engages with and deconstructs slasher-film conventions. Don't Fear the Reaper and The Angel of Indian Lake complete the trilogy's three-book arc, published through 2024. It plays with horror-genre self-awareness rather than straightforward scares.
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Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
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By decade
- 2020s3
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Mood
Grim and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book3 of 3 works carry a tone
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- Don't Fear the Reaperdarkest · calmest
- My Heart Is a Chainsawbrightest · most intense