Tastes Like Candy

"It does not go light on the gore!" -Stephen Graham Jones, NYT Bestselling Author of My Heart is a Chainsaw, I Was a Teenage Slasher, and Don't Fear the Reaper 


A senior year goodbye morphs into carnival carnage … 

Everyone at Pritchett High wants an invitation to the Senior Scavenge, and this year, Violet Warren and her friends are the lucky ones. Eight girls will break into the Poison Apple Carnival after hours for a scavenger hunt, a school tradition to welcome the best and brightest into their senior year. 

But warm welcomes turn into gory goodbyes as those hunting become the hunted. One by one, Violet's friends are viciously murdered by a mysterious masked figure running loose through the carnival grounds. 


Can Violet survive this roller coaster ride from hell and unmask the killer in time? 

Or will her head end up on a cotton candy pike? 


Heathers meets Fear Street in this sickly-sweet, hilariously over the top slasher novel with a killer unmasking you won't see coming.  


For fans of: 

  • Adam Cesare's Clown in a Cornfield 
  • Unhinged masked killers 
  • Old school horror movies 
  • Fierce final girls 
  • Gruesome rising body counts 
  • Outrageous kills 
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Tastes Like Candy

"It does not go light on the gore!" -Stephen Graham Jones, NYT Bestselling Author of My Heart is a Chainsaw, I Was a Teenage Slasher, and Don't Fear the Reaper 


A senior year goodbye morphs into carnival carnage … 

Everyone at Pritchett High wants an invitation to the Senior Scavenge, and this year, Violet Warren and her friends are the lucky ones. Eight girls will break into the Poison Apple Carnival after hours for a scavenger hunt, a school tradition to welcome the best and brightest into their senior year. 

But warm welcomes turn into gory goodbyes as those hunting become the hunted. One by one, Violet's friends are viciously murdered by a mysterious masked figure running loose through the carnival grounds. 


Can Violet survive this roller coaster ride from hell and unmask the killer in time? 

Or will her head end up on a cotton candy pike? 


Heathers meets Fear Street in this sickly-sweet, hilariously over the top slasher novel with a killer unmasking you won't see coming.  


For fans of: 

  • Adam Cesare's Clown in a Cornfield 
  • Unhinged masked killers 
  • Old school horror movies 
  • Fierce final girls 
  • Gruesome rising body counts 
  • Outrageous kills 
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Tastes Like Candy

Tastes Like Candy

by Jessica Lacy
Tastes Like Candy

Tastes Like Candy

by Jessica Lacy

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Overview

"It does not go light on the gore!" -Stephen Graham Jones, NYT Bestselling Author of My Heart is a Chainsaw, I Was a Teenage Slasher, and Don't Fear the Reaper 


A senior year goodbye morphs into carnival carnage … 

Everyone at Pritchett High wants an invitation to the Senior Scavenge, and this year, Violet Warren and her friends are the lucky ones. Eight girls will break into the Poison Apple Carnival after hours for a scavenger hunt, a school tradition to welcome the best and brightest into their senior year. 

But warm welcomes turn into gory goodbyes as those hunting become the hunted. One by one, Violet's friends are viciously murdered by a mysterious masked figure running loose through the carnival grounds. 


Can Violet survive this roller coaster ride from hell and unmask the killer in time? 

Or will her head end up on a cotton candy pike? 


Heathers meets Fear Street in this sickly-sweet, hilariously over the top slasher novel with a killer unmasking you won't see coming.  


For fans of: 

  • Adam Cesare's Clown in a Cornfield 
  • Unhinged masked killers 
  • Old school horror movies 
  • Fierce final girls 
  • Gruesome rising body counts 
  • Outrageous kills 

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781464258978
Publisher: Sourcebooks
Publication date: 09/09/2025
Series: Tastes Like Candy , #1
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 368
File size: 789 KB
Age Range: 14 - 18 Years

About the Author

JESSICA LACY is an author of young adult horror novels, including Tastes Like Candy. Her stories are slasher-comedies inspired by old school horror movies, R.L. Stine’s Fear Street, and various YouTube beauty tutorials. Jessica is the proud vice-president of the Slumber Party Massacre II fan club, an organization where she is the only member. Jessica previously wrote under the pseudonym Ivy Tholen. She can be found on Instagram @bloodandlacy or at her website: www.bloodandlacy.com.

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