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[Glossy] Paperback Book
This 9×6 glossy paperback includes 102 ivory pages of poetry & interwoven design, making it a tactile collectible for poetry lovers. Final Girl’s design is reminiscent of a 1970’s horror movie with its purple & mint hew & pops of saturated red, evocative of the book’s themes, with ivory pages indicative of traditional paperbacks. The book also features a Slasher Syllabus & Final Girl Mixtape also curated by Katrina Greco.
[Linen] Hardcover Book with Glossy Jacket
This 9×6 linen hardcover includes 112 ivory pages of poetry & interwoven design, making it a tactile collectible for poetry lovers. The hardcover is red linen with black embossing on the spine & is covered in a glossy jacket featuring a purple room with a vintage television set reminiscent of a 1970’s horror movie. But wait! There’s more! This version of Final Girl also includes an additional section with three additional poems. The book also features a Slasher Syllabus & Final Girl Mixtape also curated by Katrina Greco.
“Slasher Visceralism” Soy Wax Candle by Marvel + Moon
Comes in a 3 oz. black tin.
Inspired by The Final Girl, this candle captures the electric tension between survival & spectacle: the rush of adrenaline, flickering marquee lights, & the silence that follows the final scream. Notes of buttery popcorn, sea salt, marine ozone, bright citrus, & praline give way to red cedar, clove, smoky wood, dark musk, amber, oakmoss, & vanilla, evoking an eerie night at the movies turned blood-soaked nightmare. Each candle is adorned with a tiny slasher-inspired charm & a splash of bloody wax, a keepsake from the last scene because someone always has to make it to the credits.
Scent Notes: Popcorn. Sea Salt. Marine Ozone. Citrus. Warm Butter. Praline. Red Cedar. Clove. Vanilla. Smoky Wood. Dark Musk. Amber. Oakmoss.
Adorned with Slasher Movie Charm & Bleeding Red Wax
Book Praise:
“Katrina Greco’s poems are utterly unflinching: ‘the road tilts toward me / i reach out my arms’. Final Girl is a collection of reverence and confession. It is knife-sharp and belly-tender in equal parts. Most strikingly, it goes beyond simply celebrating horror cinema’s favorite trope. These poems carve & slice a space all their own right in the very heart of the archetype.”
—Kailey Tedesco, author of MOTHERDEVIL, FOREVERHAUS, & Lizzie, Speak
“Katrina Greco’s second book of poetry, Final Girl, is a wild, blood-soaked ride. Pithy film-review erasures mingle among lyric moments of brilliant/violent gore imagery drawn from genre-defining staples such as Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Halloween, Friday the 13th, & Nightmare on Elm Street. These poems also address pieces of the modern canon: the Scream universe, the X Trilogy. It all comes together in one exquisite, movie-marathon homage to the titular trope of Final Girl, whose spirit of survival is elevated in these pages — dire & disquieting as The Witch, irreverent & satisfying as You’re Next!”
— Fox Henry Frazier, author of Break Blow Burn & Francesca
“‘in my fourth decade / all my friends get pregnant / and i get really into horror.’ So begins Katrina Greco’s meditation on middle age and its various violences, prismed through the lens of slasher cinema of the 70s, 80s, and 90s. Iconic screen queens caught mid-shriek collide with erased versions of film critics’ reviews before thrusting the reader into a contemporary domesticity riddled with pandemics, gun violence, broken relationships, and—worst of all—memories. Like the final girl whose curse it is to survive explicitly to remember the horror, these sharp, austere poems know exactly what they’ve seen. And like their screaming inspirations, they refuse to remain quiet. Greco’s poems don’t run from the horror of this world—they shout back.”
—Charles Jensen, editor of Villain Era
“How do we survive ‘the shock of mortality’? How does one bear the relentless knowledge of one’s own certain death? These poems ‘draw a map forward’, taking cues from the ‘final girl’, she who survives the horrors of cinema—or perhaps the contrived, cinematic horror of a woman aging with confidence, strength, and independence that would threaten the otherwise ‘violent man’. These poems dare to see in the ‘final girl’ of horror’s most iconic roles the small seed of an ordinary self, at once facing death and refuting the terms Hollywood has offered. Through them Greco reminds us that to be the final girl is no accident, and no one comes out unscathed. And lest that all gets too heavy, there’s a killer playlist at the end.”
- Abigail Chabitnoy, author of In the Current Where Drowning is Beautiful and How to Dress a Fish
