text:  Well, you know, one of your earlier novels, My Heart is a Chainsaw, has been called like a love letter to the horror genre. But you also really put us into a slasher's head and mind and thinking. Why? I want to explore the slasher from every angle I can. And with I was a teenage slasher, I found what feels like a new doorway into the slasher. And that's through the slasher's head, through his eyes, through his voice, through his memory.