The protagonist of the novel, whose parents may or may not be monsters, is Jade Daniels. “Parents are good, parents are shining and right, they’re the gods of our world,” one of Jones’ characters says. If you’re a kid, grownups really do seem unfathomably powerful, perhaps unstoppably destructive. If you imagine Michael Myers, Freddy Krueger, Jason and Ghostface as the nightmares of an abused child, the stories look less fanciful. Stephen Graham Jones’ latest novel, “ My Heart Is a Chainsaw,” references “The New Blood” along with dozens of other slashers, and though he doesn’t mention this scene, he’s certainly aware of the metaphor lurking beneath the genre’s surface. Her good daddy had turned out to be a horrible nightmare abuser, and now he’s been replaced by a horrible nightmare monster. Instead, her magic raises up Jason Voorhees, the unkillable masked zombie slasher.
When she comes back to the site of the disaster as a teen, she stares into that same water, wishing her father would return. As a young girl, she sees her father beating her mother and uses her abilities to destroy the pier he’s standing on, sinking him in Crystal Lake. One of my favorite slasher film moments is from 1988’s “ Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood.” The hero, Tina ( Lar Park Lincoln), has telekinetic powers.
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