The Slaughterman's: A Slaughterman's Halloween

Most teens just have to worry about surviving awkward holiday small talk. Arica Slaughterman has to worry about surviving her mother’s appetite.

Seventeen-year-old Arica thought a tech-blackout winter break in Stull, Kansas, was the ultimate punishment. Between her brother Markie’s endless whining, her father Nick’s unhinged, bleach-fueled OCD, and her mother June’s sudden, unsettling craving for practically raw, bleeding bacon, the family road trip was already a total nightmare.

Then the locals started vanishing, and the vacation got messy.

Stull is infamous for its locked-down cemetery, demonic rumors, and a legendary, bone-snapping beast that wakes up every twenty years to turn the townspeople into an all-you-can-eat buffet. The Slaughtermans rolled in exactly one day after the feeding frenzy started. Coincidence? Not even close.

While Arica tries to navigate a local teen party—and a massive hangover—she and the cute boy next door start digging into the town's history. But every clue doesn't just point to a monster; it points directly to her parents' love story. A love story that apparently began when June tried to literally disembowel and consume Nick in high school, only for him to take her away to the suburbs to keep her "tamed."

Now, the local sheriff is circling, the town hunting parties are armed to the teeth, and Aunt Mabel has mysteriously stopped nagging and started occupying space in the family's reinforced basement incinerator. With her father frantically trying to scrub human grease out of his clothes and her mother shifting forms to violently rip the jaws off suspicious neighbors, Arica has to face a terrifying reality.

Family secrets don't just stay buried in Stull. Sometimes, they hunt you through the woods, sniff your hair, and leave you wondering why your own teeth are suddenly sharpening into razor-edged points.

The Slaughtermans is a gory, brutally sarcastic horror-thriller that proves no matter how dysfunctional you think your family is, at least your mom doesn't leave half-eaten mechanics in the garage.