Last Request is too real to be simply classified as horror fiction. The elements of the supernatural occult are smothered by the disturbing actions of a modern legal system.
A school shooting in a college library takes the lives of undergraduates and staff and puts Marcus Atwood directly in the line of fire. Surviving a bullet is just one trial he must endure. Marcus, a black man, must survive the prejudice that blames him despite his innocence.
Last Request touches on the sensitive and cruel nature of what justice, if you can call it that, looks like in these modern times.