Night of the Mannequins

More like 4.5 stars.
I have been on the hunt, in 2020, to read stuff that will blow my mind. My loving nickname for the genre of books I am searching for lately is “batshit crazy”. This is very that. Not only did this story of 5 friends who set up an elaborate prank with a mannequin in a movie theater not go in any direction I could have predicted, but it was also so incredibly well written. Jones has a way of putting things that makes crazy things seem logical, almost fated. He uses horror tropes here to the story's advantage and creates patterns and imagery with words- the story plays out like a movie being shown in your head.