![]() ![]() ![]() She is lumped together with the “bad kids,” also ejected from the same class, including the handsome rebel Cole Hill. On her first day at Kettle Springs High, Quinn – usually a conscientious student – is ejected from class for giggling (more out of surprise, then malice) at the unhinged rantings of her science teacher. (Yes, this is a “Dead Mom” narrative, not one of my favourite tropes). ![]() She, and her father, have moved from Philadelphia to the small town of Kettle Springs in Missouri in the hope of starting afresh following the death of Quinn’s mother. The story is told mostly from the perspective of teenager Quinn Maybrook. Still, that same DNA, the over-the-top violence and the insane motivations of the villains are evident in Clown in a Cornfield. Adam Cesare is a far better writer than those authors (his fiction is certainly less sleazy and rapey). Smith, Richard Laymon, and Bentley Little that I binged back in the late ’80s and early ’90s. It’s a cover that gave me pleasing flashbacks to the schlocky horror fiction (recently immortalised by Grady Hendrix in Paperbacks from Hell) of Shaun Huston, Guy N. I’ve not previously read the work of Adam Cesare, but I was drawn to his new teen horror novel, Clown in a Cornfield, because of its striking red and black cover, of a cornfield fashioned in the image (you guessed it) of a grinning clown. ![]()
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