First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines?
- Pick a book off your shelf (it could be your current read or on your TBR) and open to the first page
- Copy the first few lines, but don’t give anything else about the book away just yet – you need to hook the reader first
- Finally… reveal the book!
So Shanna got a new job at the movie theater, we thought we’d play a fun prank on her, and now most of use are dead, and I’m really starting to feel kind of guilty about it all.
FIND OUT THE BOOK BELOW!
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Night of the Mannequins by Stephen Graham Jones
This is one of very few horror stories that I’ve ever picked up – I’m more a mystery/thriller reader typically, but since my luck with another horror author hasn’t been the best, I thought I’d give a novella a try. And I while I still don’t know if the genre is for me, Stephen Graham Jones writing style is excellent.
Goodreads Synopsis: Stephen Graham Jones returns with Night of the Mannequins, a contemporary horror story where a teen prank goes very wrong and all hell breaks loose: is there a supernatural cause, a psychopath on the loose, or both?
Until next time,
Life of a Literary Nerd 
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