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INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER
Barbie meets Scream with a 90s nostalgia twist in this horror romp from Bless Your Heart author Lindy Ryan.Horror author Jill has just moved to suburban New Jersey, hoping to fit in with the new PTA moms and maybe not weird everyone out with her Final Girl coffee mug. You know. Make some real friends. But then a plastic-face-masked serial killer begins slashing their way through town, one overly made-up mom at a time. The police are incredulous. The moms are indignant. And Jill is slowly wrapped up in a killer's murderous spree, until she might just be the last woman standing. A delightfully murderous novel that is equal parts scathing and salacious, Dollface will win you over with its gossip and gore, one body at a time. "A juicy, irreverent and bloody twist on the genre." - Variety
Brief description: Lindy Ryan is a USA Today bestselling and award-winning author and anthologist whose books have received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Booklist, and Library Journal. Author-in-residence at Rue Morgue and a columnist at BookTrib, Ryan was a Publishers Weekly Star Watch Honoree in 2020 and has been declared a "champion for women's voices in horror" and one of horror's most masterful anthology curators. She is an award-winning professor at Rutgers University, and a guest faculty mentor in Western Connecticut State University's Creative Writing MFA program. Find her on Instagram and Substack @lindyryanwrites.
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Praise for Dollface:
"Dollface is Stepford meets Stephen King--sharp and sinister in all the best ways. A twisted joy for horror fans." --James "Murr" Murray and Darren Wearmouth, bestselling co-authors of The Stowaway and You Better Watch Out
"Literary slashers are having a moment right now, but I'm hard pressed to think of one in any medium like Lindy Ryan's Dollface. Equal parts Stephen Graham Jones, Rachel Harrison, Ira Levin, and Sarah Langan, with a trenchant wit, rip-roaring pace, real anger, and one of the most unsettling opening chapters I've read in decades." --Nat Cassidy, USA Today bestselling author of When the Wolf Comes Home and Mary
"A twisty, gory homage to the slasher, with a horror writer heroine who's just a little too knowledgeable about genre tropes...Dollface is a whole lot of bloody fun." --Christina Henry, author of Alice and The Place Where They Buried Your Heart
"Lindy Ryan's suburban giallo goes for the gullet, then slices right through. Dollface stands proudly within the new slasher canon alongside the works of Stephen Graham Jones and Brian McAuley, finding fresh weapons to render the reader's imagination into the reddest of ribbons." --Clay McLeod Chapman, author of Wake Up and Open Your Eyes
"A modern, female-centered riff on the slasher tradition... Dollface stands as a bright, blood-streaked love letter to slasher films filtered through the lens of suburban satire and feminine rage." --Horror DNA
"[A] playful horror thriller." --New York Post
"If you're looking for a fun, bloody romp through Pleasantville, this is the book for you." --Rue Morgue "Will manage to satisfy hardcore horror readers, but at the same time will also appeal to true crime or mystery fans. That's a tricky tightrope to walk, but Ryan makes it look easy and, in doing so, shows her mastery of the genre." --Gruesome Magazine "With a keen eye for description and a finely-tuned ear for dialogue, Ryan delivers a high-octane story that refuses to be put down until the last page turns." --Novels Alive
"This book grabbed me by the throat and pulled me in. Perfect for readers who like their gore wrapped in social commentary." --RIOTUS