Sentence:  "Carrie" is Cinderella in the body language of menstrual blood and raging hormones. King's adolescent joy in grimaces and groans, the "Mad" magazine humor, and the staple of “<WSD>grue</WSD>” hardly need mentioning. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Any byproduct of a gruesome event, such as gore, viscera, entrails, blood and guts.