They're all cruising around together late one night when they decide to sneak into a large cemetery, just to get high and drink a few beers. The cast includes all your typical teen stereotypes: the cool kid, his hot girlfriend, the nerd, the fat kid, the wimp, the "bitch," the goodie two-shoes, the tag-along younger brother/cousin (it literally changes throughout the book), etc, and that's about as deep as the characterization goes. The And Then There Were None in a locked graveyard setup was great, and it's strange these types of novels weren't more prominent back in the day, considering horror fiction in general was just as huge as slasher flicks at the time. At first it seems like a typical slasher novel meant to cash in on the early 80s slasher movie craze, and it is in a way, but it's very well done, with non-stop tension and terror. MORE GRISLY THAN FRIDAY THE 13TH." That's in big bold letters on the back, under the brief synopsis, and the two films referenced are about as good of a comparison as I could ever come up with.
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