The Last Horror Novel in the History of the World

Is horror becoming the new frontier for young authors who have established themselves in the world of literary fiction? Did their parents or older siblings let them watch every horror film available on VHS in the 1980;s, and so tales modeled on the tropes of those films must occasionally burst from them like the alien that came out John Hurt's chest?

Carr's novella, which by the way is beautifully packaged into a 121 page book, takes a typical cast of small town young people and puts through a night of impressive terror. And he does this without making the whole things seem like a film treatment. It's all good, gory fun that builds to an apocalyptic climax. This is a very rough night in Scrape, Texas.