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“The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre”: Philip Fracassi with the elder final girl Setting a fast-paced horror-thriller with seniors in a retirement home full of easy targets

“The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre”: Philip Fracassi with the elder final girl Setting a fast-paced horror-thriller with seniors in a retirement home full of easy targets

by Summer Brooks | October 5, 2025 Leave a Comment

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Horror author Philip Fracassi talks about his newest novel, THE AUTUMN SPRINGS RETIREMENT HOME MASSACRE, featuring a senior citizen final girl and the shenanigans that take over her life at the retirement home.

He goes into how the setting for the story developed out of the societal tendency to overlook the elderly and the care homes and other facilities they end up in to be “out of sight, out of mind”, and where the characters of Rose and Miller and their friends came into play. Philip also pulled from his location manager experience to design Autumn Springs and the community around it.

The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre Website: pfracassi.com
Book tour dates: https://pfracassi.com/newsandevents
Instagram: @pfracassi
Bluesky: @pfracassi.bsky.social


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