Surfer Girl

Item: Surfer Girl
Rating: 3
Author: Frank Showalter

Philip Fracassi

2017 | Short Story

Reviewed Apr 22, 2022

A serial killer comes of age during a vacation with his mother and step-father in Acapulco.

Fracassi injects new life into the tired “birth of a serial killer” premise by transporting the location to a tropical resort. I appreciated this aspect, but—much like Rob Zombie’s Halloween—humanizing the monster robs him of some edge.

Still, credit Fracassi with a terrific opening line:

Adolf’s father melted the day after he became a man.

That’s how you hook a reader.

Reading History

2022

Apr

22

Fri
Ebook ( Behold the Void, Lovecraft eZine Press, 2018 )
Read over 1 Days
1. 22 Apr 2022
  
  Finished

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