The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

by Stephen Hand

  I showed Erin the autopsy photo and I described to her the photo shown to me by Franklin Nash.

  “They killed the wrong man,” she told me. “They had a dead man and that was all they cared about. So they closed the case.”

  I asked her, “How do you know it wasn’t him?”

  Erin looked me straight in the eye and said, “The bodies in the photos had both arms. He had only one.”

  Then I remembered, she’d cut off his arm with the cleaver.

  A one-armed man. An obese one-armed man, like the survivor I went to see only a few days ago. The survivor who hadn’t spoken since the day he was found. The survivor who compulsively chewed on candy and chocolate. The survivor who had only one arm.

  There was no other survivor.

  The man I spoke to three days ago—was Leatherface.

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  Stephen Hand is the author of Freddy vs Jason, three fantasy books, and has also written for Fear, Edge, Prediction and Develop magazines. He has designed five board games including Chainsaw Warrior, Fury of Dracula and Star Wars: Escape from the Death Star, and is the producer of over twenty video games, among them the international million-seller blockbuster Grand Prix 2. Stephen lives in the southwest of England with his wife, Mandy.