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Description from the MacAdam/Cage website:

About the Book

On Halloween night, following an unnerving phone call from his diabetic mother, Hale and six of his med school classmates return to the house where his sister disappeared years ago. While there is no sign of his mother, something is waiting for them there, and has been waiting a long time. Written as a literary film treatment littered with footnotes and experimental nuances, Demon Theory is even parts camp and terror, combining glib dialogue, fascinating pop culture references, and an intricate subtext as it pursues the events of a haunting movie trilogy too real to dismiss. There are books about movies and movies about books, and then there’s Demon Theory – a refreshing and occasionally shocking addition to the increasingly popular “intelligent horrorâ€? genre.

. . . akin to watching horror director Wes Craven’s Scream trilogy with David Foster Wallace whispering in your ear . . . ingenious – Dallas Morning News

The conceit is fairly audacious, but Jones, an unapologetic pop-culture savant, seizes the opportunity to recast thriller clichés into a madly entertaining landmark of literary horror . . . Demon Theory is subversive and indispensable—there is genius at work here. – Mike Shea, Texas Monthly

Forget the teen slasher films of the 90′s, and no one really cares what happened last summer anymore. Jones spanks them all soundly and puts them to bed without supper in all of their pithy and overly verbose language . . . And he does it with style, guiding the reader along the twisting corridors of terror.What comes across is not only a chilling story, but also the wit and intelligence of Jones, leading the reader along on a guided tour of pop culture and extreme fear. – Scott Johnson, DreadCentral

What he’s crafted is at once a love letter to the genre as a whole and to the hardcore fans who live and die for horror films, cult history, and the darker side of life in general . . . easily one of the best horror novels I’ve read in the past decade as it seamlessly mixes monsters and human frailty with a thorough dissertation on horror as a genre and pop culture in general. – Mike Bracken, the Horror Geek

Reviews:

• Horrorwatch
• Dallas Morning News (Jerome Weeks)
  
• About.Horror (Staci Wilson)
• Texas Monthly (Mike Shea)
• HorrorMovies
• Fancy Pants, Inc
• Monster Librarian
  
• Dread Central (Scott A. Johnson)
  
• Wooden Spoon
  
• Horror World (Nate Kenyon)
  
• Horror-Web
  
• Culture Cartel (Mike Bracken)
  
• Unspeakable Horror (Vince Liaguno)
  
• Globe and Mail (requires registration)
  
• Conditional Axe
  
• Chicago Reader
  
• IRoSF
  

Purchase at:

• Powell’s
• Shocklines (signed, and on a money-back guarantee)
• Wherever
• VH-1
• Wal*Mart (evidently they have it when nobody else does…)
• Amazon (cloth)
• Amazon (paper)
• B&N(cloth)
• B&N (paper)
• Tattered Cover
• Rent it? (yes, evidently)
• Audio? CD & Audible

MacAdam/Cage Demon Theory page.