Date of Award
Summer 2023
Document Type
Open Access Thesis
Department
English Language and Literatures
First Advisor
David Bajo
Abstract
Disco Murder City is a slasher detective story haunted by sleep paralysis demons. The plot, characters, genre conventions, and prose blur, bend, rotate, and break as an animation artist named Netti sets out to pin down the killer knifing kids down at the disco—by catering to his addiction of stealing masks from demons. The trauma of a sleep paralysis demon outbreak across the city has sent the youth to revive dead clubs. Through Netti’s meandering through the mystery, he grapples with addiction recovery, past trauma, and arbitrary guilt. He ends the novel by trading in his eccentric fur coat for a demon skin (that he just flayed in the disco) – becoming an in-between entity among humans and demons.
Rights
© 2023, Caleb Bethea
Recommended Citation
Bethea, C.(2023). Disco Murder City. (Master's thesis). Retrieved from https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/etd/7366