"Frightday 13” continued to pound through the speakers, even though the remaining members of the band had stopped miming to the music and were now looking at one another, wondering what the hell was going on. The lead guitarist guessed it was Ross, pulling another lame stunt. He was about to confront the singer, when Jason snatched a hi-hat off the drum kit and tossed it like a Frisbee into his neck. The guitarist puked blood and died, his corpse hitting the deck mere seconds before the drummer, who Jason hauled off a stool and repeatedly choke-slammed into the floor, beating his head into neck butter.

“Holy shit!” cried the keyboard player.

He tried to run but Jason seized him in a headlock. The killer held him fast, as he pulled an audio cable out of the rear of the synthesizer and then jammed the metal jack plug so hard into the keyboardist's eye that it punched straight through into the brain. In their recording days, Ross had never let the guy add backing vocals to any of his aloums because he had always sounded tone deaf; now, however, the keyboard player screamed in perfect pitch. Jason gouged deeper into his cerebrum and screwed the pin with such force that juice spat onto his hands. When the body stopped shaking-and the long black cord was plugged into its skull— Jason hurled it at the dry ice machine.

Chapter 18, Friday the 13th: Carnival of Maniacs