Stephen Graham Jones enters The Twilight Zone as a mannequin seemingly comes to life in a movie theatre and begins to stalk a group of teenage friends: an uncanny tale about a prank-gone-wrong. With trademark droll humour, SGJ develops an utterly compelling, unreliable narrator in Sawyer, a teenager who is so tight with his contemporaries that he will do anything to protect them (and their families) from a fate *worse* than death.
But the darkly funny violence and deadpan delivery is also shot through with enormous poignancy, melancholy and bathos, evoking the universal fear of teen friendships ending, new chapters beginning and distances growing.
As their final summer together nears its conclusion, the bloody bodycount of the friends increases exponentially - as does Sawyer's psychological stability and twisted logic. It's a logic into which the reader finds themselves buying, a clever conceit, the success of which is all down to the author's lightness of touch and the beautifully-crafted colloquial language of the narrator.
It also contains one of the greatest opening lines of any work of literature, immediately establishing plot and character and delivered with a macabre poker-face:
“So Shanna got a new job at the movie theatre, we thought we’d play a fun prank on her, and now most of us are dead, and I’m really beginning to feel kind of guilty about it all”.
And as the economical, tightly-structured story reaches its almost apocalyptic conclusion, we are left breathlessly asking ourselves: what lies beneath the plastic faces of the people we know and love?
Night of the Mannequins
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