Insanity: Jeff the Killer

Insanity #1

by Neesha Nickleson

Bullies and liars beware; your doom is near. Naomi Jansen just wanted a normal carefree life till she met Jeff, a laid back teenage boy with a dark secret. While Naomi is at camp she discovers one morning that her long time bully, Mallory, was found dead in her cabin. Naomi suspects Jeff, but decides that he's to sweet to do something like that; until a series of events changes her mind and her outlook on her own sanity.

Genres: Horror, Fan Fiction

54 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 16, 2015

Reviews

[Alaa · Rating 1 out of 5]

I love laughing at my mom when she...

C H O K E S

[James Tullos · Rating 4 out of 5]

Magnifique.

[Jessica · Rating 1 out of 5]

I listened to John Wolfe do a dramatic reading of this, and LET ME TELL YOU, this is the single greatest story ever written.

Just kidding. Jeff the Killer is trash.

[ren · Rating 1 out of 5]

I only found out this existed because of Jenny Nicholson's YouTube video about it.

If you'll excuse me, I'm off to find a "pink sparkly knife" of my own.

[Oliver Hayhoe · Rating 1 out of 5]

Yes, I gave this book one star. No, I do not discourage reading it. In fact, I advise everyone to get a copy cause this is the funniest shit you'll ever read. It's so poor, so try-hard edgy that it just ends up being hilarious. It's both the worst and the best thing to come from the tumblr side of the creepypasta community.

[Eric Shane · Rating 1 out of 5]

This train wreck of a book was everything i expected it to be. It a published fanfiction of a cringey creppypasta so my expectations were at their absolute lowest. The fact this is a lazy self published affair is apparent from the stolen anime art of Jeff and the list of grammatical errors.I'm assuming the rapid fangirl who wrote this hired her parents to pay for lord knows how many copies of this trash.

Its obviously a poorly disguised revenge fantasy as the girl who bullies the self insert Naomi end up getting killed by Jeff along with her other friends.....in a summer camp. Another egregious aspect is how every teen is a psycho with weapons and every adult is utterly useless. Naomi owns a bb gun, the three bully characters have guns, Jeff of course has a knife and the bully has " a pink sparkly knife". Jeff is able to kill as many people as he want cause this police in this story are just dumb. A tell tale sign of a story meant for teen is when the teens do morally wrong things and never face the consequences of their action. perhaps the most annoying part was all the music references. This writer has utter horrendous taste in music and the only good songs are sanctuary from kingdom hearts and sweet dreams of made of this.

I know its wrong to judge someone based off their tastes but seeing reviews of people who genuinely enjoyed the book , and not in "its so bad its good" type of way is honestly kinda pathetic. Its safe to say this girls writing career will never take flight.

[Alexis · Rating 5 out of 5]

Awesome!!

This was an amazing book because it morphed out of Jeff the Killer's real story into an original fan fiction. I would recommend this book to creepypasta lovers or people who like a little bit of insanity in it.

[Nekkoko · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book should not be for sale. Period. It’s riddled with grammatical mistakes, has plot holes so obvious that I fail to understand how the author themselves could not see the ridiculousness of expecting readers to suspend their disbelief for this trash, and has a protagonist who is so blatantly a Mary Sue fan-insert, that she can be used as a text-book example for the phenomenon. This book SHOULD NOT be for sale. It’s a fan-fiction. What you are paying for is the author’s fan-fiction, and not a very good one. If you want to read crappy fan fiction about a teenage serial killer, you can read it for free. Hell, I’m pretty sure there might be a halfway decent Jeff the Killer fan fiction (doubt it but I like to be optimistic) floating somewhere in the digital infinity of the Internet that is available for free. DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY ON THIS BOOK! You’ve been warned. And in case you think I’m being too hard on the author, who I hope to the gods is/ was under the age of 18 during the time of its publishing because this book is a damn mess, let me posit you this question: think about your freshman high school English essay—-Your worst one, the one you didn’t want to write and didn’t care to proofread because fuck it, it’s Shakespeare and who gives a fuck about symbolism in King Lear—-Would you honestly think that your half-assed, first-draft mess of an essay is worthy of someone’s hard-earned money? If you can admit that it isn’t because you’re self-aware enough to not charge people money for sub-par work, then congrats! You see the problem of writing and publishing and expecting people to pay for something that you didn’t put your best effort into.
This book is the equivalent of wanting people to pay for that shitty high school paper you shitted out the night before. And what makes its sad is that all the author had to do is ask someone to proofread their work. There’s free resources on Reddit like r/writing. There’s online writers groups that are free. There’s just no excuse to have a self-published book that have issues that are THIS BAD (e.g. “Epilouge” is not a misprinted word. It’s in the digital and print format. Your computer would had caught that which means you were too lazy to correct it).

So yeah, don’t buy this. If you want a good hate-read, then this is it. Hell, the only reason I read it was because my preteen cousin insisted she have it for her birthday. The only good thing about it that I can say is congrats for having the balls to publish it which is like giving a participation trophy nowadays with self-publishing being as easy as it is.

Also, before anyone feels the need to point out my own grammatical mistakes, remember I’m not asking you to pay for it. 😁

[Bea]

I read this book in literally one hour or so😭 I knew it was written in 2016 before I even looked up the publishing year just because of how it is structured. It really does take me back to my younger Creepypasta phase and made me feel like I was 13 again reading crp fanfics!
My one question is did everything happen in like a week or two? We are given no time frame, so everything seems to happen so fast😭
Also someone should take Naomi Jansen to get her hair cut, because literally in every chapter she is blowing her hair outta her face.

[SkeletonJester · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is hilarious! I haven't laughed this hard while reading in a while.
The whole story of Jeff The Killer reminds me of a 90's horror movie: rampant clichés, the killer is heavily bullied, one-dimensional villains, and unrealistic injuries. But Insanity takes the 90's horror movie, and multiplied every single crazy bit by ten! It's an experience to read, and I can't wait to buy the sequel! :)

[Nicole De · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was awesome! it inspired me to write my own creepypasta, and plus; its a quick fun read for when you are bored. It reminds me of the room, in the fact that it's so bad it's good. Unlike onision's books that are awful, this had a semblance of a plot. It had something of a story. I really liked this book but i will have to read a PDF version online.

[alex marki · Rating 5 out of 5]

essential "so bad it's good"

[Cath · Rating 1 out of 5]

Neesha, your writing has potential and I really hope you've been continuing to write as the years have gone by given this was written in 2015. However, this topic is heavily limiting your writing abilities. Jeff the Killer isn't exactly a literary masterpiece nor an inspiring tale that can help drive your creative force. Most of this book seemed like wish fulfillment i.e. preppy bully girl gets killed and mc gets to slander her name on T.V., "cute" emo scene boy praises mc abilities to sing and play piano, mc + BF killing who ever is an inconvenience, etc. I mean the concept of a murderer duo could be an interesting one if you ditched the already known and very much so despised icon of Jeff and replaced him with a complex, reasonable flawed character who convinces his girlfriend to partake in killing all who have wronged them and in the end the girl could realize that this is wrong and attempts to put a stop to her boyfriends reign of terror. Almost like another Heather's the Musical story now that I think about it.

[Mary · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good book

[Jenny · Rating 1 out of 5]

Best book i’ve ever read. 10/10

[Lex Lynn · Rating 5 out of 5]

READ. THIS. NOW. I SAY.

My friends and I read this outloud during a road trip. It made rhe 9 hour drive so much more entertaining.

[The Local Spooky Hermit · Rating 1 out of 5]

I hate Jeff the killer.. he was the ruination of creepypastas.
Its like the My Immortal fanfic but less fun to read.

[Raychelle Lyn · Rating 1 out of 5]

It's badly written and the author is completely unprofessional. A wonder why books like this got into publication.
No good reader with tastes would wanna read this. I don't recommend this to anybody.

[Christina Collins · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book was badly written and I have to say, waste of time and money. I love the cover and I do love the story of Jeff but THIS?! What the heck was I reading? It reminded me of a bad roleplay written on Facebook and then transformed to be a book. This book I wasn't pleased on...

[Evelyn Sanchez · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book

Good story from KILLER. Did liu live or die. What did happen to Liu and Keith randy and the fat one

[Rorek · Rating 2 out of 5]

1.5 Stars
1 for Jenny Nicholson
.5 for how many times this book made me laugh

[Chris Roberto · Rating 1 out of 5]

If you find this book good in any way you don't deserve the privilege of reading.

[kyla e wise]

Insanity

[Ashley]

Hi. I haven’t read this book yet. I’m just wondering if I can use this art for a creepypasta amino in a blog. May I?

[Kris · Rating 3 out of 5]

Bad grammar

[Amina · Rating 5 out of 5]

Honestlty this book screams 2014 lol but yeah it was entertaining I read it when I finished my books in the plane I borrowed it from a woman near me lol

[mino · Rating 1 out of 5]

j’avais aucune attentes mais jsuis quand même déçue

[Savannah Pokusa · Rating 4 out of 5]

I don't know if I should rate this 5 stars or 1. Someone called this the "My Immortal story of creepypasta," and I think that pretty much sums it up. Me and my coworkers bought this and read it during slower periods at work and got many laughs out of it. I think it's charming for what it is, and a product of it's time. The writing alone is of course not great, but it shouldn't be taken too seriously. THINK about what you're reading. Justice for Liu, who was catching so many strays this whole book. I also loved the implication that their summer camp was meant to overlap with their school semester if it hadn't been for Jeff killing 6 people day one. Margaret Woods wins mom of the year. Randy, Troy, and Keith can somehow jump over a whole fence on their skateboards. Falling in love after maybe a total hour and a half of interaction??? Love that. I fear I need to buy a pink sparkly knife now.

Some of my favorite quotes:

"'Yeah so?' he said.
'It's weird,' I said.
'It's the way I dress,' Jeff said.
'No not really.' I sat down and Jeff sat next to me." HOW DOES SHE KNOW HOW HE DRESSES?

"Thanks! I would hug you, but I would bring more pain to my wounds." Ok.

"Naomi laughed. 'Mallory is more than a witch; she's a rattlesnake in pink flip-flops'" Well yes!

"I tried to ignore that nagging feeling in the back of my head. It just kept coming back stronger. I plugged my headphones into my phone and turned on Katy Perry's Dark Horse." Of course

"'Thanks.' I went back to reading and listening to my music. Everybody's Fool came on by Evanescence." Peakkkk

"She took off her small backpack and opened it.
'Want a marshmallow?' She asked me.
'No thanks, I'm good; wait hang on, you carry marshmallows around in your bag?'
'No, it was just some camp snacks I brought along with me.'
'Oh, ok.'" OK??

"Jeff laughed.
'You laugh at people getting hurt too?'
'Huh, oh yeah, it's funny if I'm not the one getting hurt.' He laughed more.
'I laugh at my mom all the time when she chokes.' We both laughed." Hello??

"I sat in the bathtub and messed with some bubbles and sang Welcome to the Show, a song from the movie Equestria Girls Rainbow Rocks." THEY KNOW BALL.

"Jeff kissed my check and walked out of the room." The typos really bring it all together.

"The voice was right; I can't see myself when I sleep." Really, Jeff?

There's so many more quotes I could add but these are my highlights. 10/10.

[Red · Rating 1 out of 5]

So I decided to make my review into basically a couple of links that are comedy gold instead of just breaking down why this book is garbage and repeating everything everyone else has said.

https://youtu.be/DRD-CX9Uzwo
https://youtu.be/Cw4UFBSvFyk

Soooo, let's talk about Jeff the Killer, I'd love to say he's the Cupcakes of creepypasta. You can't escape him whenever you go and listen to creepypastas, but he's kind of not. A lot of people have admitted that his story is bad and they don't consider it one of the best creepypastas, and so he basically fades out.

The ogs of creepypasta are stuff like Smile Dog and Slenderman and Ben Drowned. And even Sonic.exe, which is trash is more well-known and liked than Jeff the Killer in most places.

I think even if he's iconic, he's iconic because he's bad, like nobody thinks of The Lorax and thinks of it because it's good, they think of it because the Onceler they're has a really bopping song and that's all they remember from it.

I've learned that Jeff the Killer is basically a comfort icon for teenagers and then they grow up and they don't like him anymore, so I guess he's kind of a stepping stone before people get older. And I can't really fault him because in a lot of ways teenagers want revenge on their bullies, but there's so many better stories that do it than Jeff the Killer.

I honestly would have given this zero stars but I think the fact that somebody was ballsy enough to publish this as a book earns it half a star.

[A M H · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book is filled with a bunch of nonsense violence, murders, and insanity, and none of it is entertaining. It comes across as a blatant self-insert fanfiction with no rationality or consequences.

Honestly, I heavily dislike the criticism of fanfiction. I prefer only positive comments or nothing at all since the writer spends their time writing things for free. I heavily sympathize, because I write tons of fanfiction myself. However, this is published fanfiction that people have to pay for (unless you listen to a YouTuber read/summarize as I did) and the cover is stolen artwork that the author continually defended the stealing of, claiming she didn't have enough time for her friend to draw something, so supposedly that justifies it even though again it's stolen artwork FOR PROFIT. Also, the fact that she was young during the time doesn't help because it's been years and it's still in use so she doesn't even have those excuses anymore.

Personally, depending on the circumstances, I'm fine with pull to publish fanfics. (Where people significantly change their books to make there works original and legal.) However, strangely, this isn't that at all. This book is just straight up published fanfiction. That, plus the stolen artwork and the author's poor excuses and behavior makes the whole situation around this book really bad and I'm honestly surprised it's still up on Amazon after all these years.