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    Demon Theory
    Demon Theory
    Demon Theory
    Audiobook12 hours

    Demon Theory

    Written by Stephen Graham Jones

    Narrated by Richard Ferrone

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Acclaimed author Stephen Graham Jones delivers an extraordinary tale of postmodern terror. The novelization of a fictional film trilogy, Demon Theory details the horrifying events set in motion by a tragic childhood incident. When med student Hale is called home by his ailing mother on Halloween night, he and a group of friends are trapped in an inescapable cycle of violence. "[T]here is genius at work here."-Texas Monthly
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateFeb 18, 2008
    ISBN9781436117425
    Demon Theory
    Author

    Stephen Graham Jones

    Stephen Graham Jones is the New York Times bestselling author of The Only Good Indians. He has been an NEA fellowship recipient and a recipient of several awards including the Ray Bradbury Award from the Los Angeles Times, the Bram Stoker Award, the Shirley Jackson Award, the Jesse Jones Award for Best Work of Fiction from the Texas Institute of Letters, the Independent Publishers Award for Multicultural Fiction, and the Alex Award from American Library Association. He is the Ivena Baldwin Professor of English at the University of Colorado Boulder.

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    • 4/5
      This is a novel -- perhaps the novel -- for horror film fans.

      The novel is broken up into three parts, each describing or retelling the events of a film in a horror trilogy. The trilogy is a franchise based on a slasher, or demons, or possessed coma patients, or something or other, in which sexed-up, boozed-up, and drugged-up twenty-somethings are being killed in pretty spectacular ways. There is no point in trying to determine who the killer is, because at various points in the re-generating narrative you'll be either wrong or right, and the twist ending is pulled from nowhere. As are all classic horror movie endings.

      It's all in good fun. S G Jones knows what horror fans want, and why they want it, and boy does he give it to them. There is a lot of homage paid to well-known horror films, mostly overt references (stuff like "bursts out of his chest like in Alien", though that may not specifically have been one of them) and ... a ton of footnotes. Now, there are a few good jokes in the footnotes, but for the most part these are as heavy-handed as Tarantino trying to convince us in Deathproof that he's seen Vanishing Point. Like an American running a joke into the ground, the references are piled one on top of another, as if making some bizarre appeal to authority in order to establish the author's credibility. Or maybe it's a courtship ritual.

      Without the footnotes, this would be a five-star novel that sums up, synthesizes, or perhaps even encapsulates the horror film genre up to the time of its writing (and, really, not much progress has been made since then). A bit silly, perhaps, a bit genre, definitely, but nonetheless an impressive feat.
    • 3/5
      I don't really know how I feel about this book. Uneasy? Irate? Exuberant?

      At points I felt bitterly disappointed after Stephen Graham Jones' brilliant collection of short stories that I read first.

      In one way, the most interesting part about it are the copious footnotes so packed full of pop-culture references it can make a person dizzy.

      The main story(ies) are written almost as a treatment for a screenplay - or perhaps a book for a musical. I'm note sure if it's intentional or not, but there were times that I wasn't always clear about what was going on. This I think, is taken care of by the epilogue. Don't read the epilogue first -- I think it would ruin the effect of the entire book.

      I still don't know. Which ... is perhaps what is intended. I think that it did pull some sort of emotional response out of me, which is of course, what good art does.