Dead Flip, Sara Farizan

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Dead Flip
by Sara Farizan
Hardcover | August 30, 2022

Dead Flip is a terrifyingly fun horror comedy that blends supernatural suspense, 1990s nostalgia, and queer coming-of-age into a sharp, fast-paced mystery. Set in 1992, the novel follows former best friends Cori and Maz as they are forced to confront the unresolved disappearance of their childhood friend Sam, who vanished five years earlier under circumstances that only grew stranger with time.

Once inseparable, the trio bonded over pop culture, Halloween obsessions, and endless hours in arcades. Now everything has fractured. Cori and Maz no longer speak, divided by grief, denial, and an impossible question: was Sam dead, or was he abducted by something far more unnatural, possibly a cursed pinball machine? When Sam suddenly reappears, unchanged and still twelve years old while his friends are now seventeen, the mystery becomes undeniable and deeply dangerous.

As the truth begins to surface, the story shifts between horror and emotional reckoning. Cori masks her love of scary movies and her queerness beneath the polished image of a high school queen bee, while Maz spirals into reckless escape, refusing to face the past. Reunited, the three must confront buried secrets, fractured loyalty, and the terrifying cost of what Sam endured while trapped beyond time.

With wit, heart, and mounting dread, Farizan delivers a genre-savvy homage to classic horror while crafting something wholly original. Dead Flip explores friendship, identity, and trauma with humor and humanity, building toward a chilling revelation that proves some games never really end.

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