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The Summer Fun Massacre

Craig DiLouie · Horror

43 Pulse Score

Based on recommendations from independent creators

closed circlehigh stakes survivaltwist ending
slasher
🌶️🌶️🌶️Moderate — some open-door scenes, not the focus

#152 All Time

About this book

Surviving the massacre is just the beginning in this razor-sharp take on the summer camp slasher from horror master Craig DiLouie. SUMMER 1983. A blood-soaked summer camp counselor is found staggering down a country road. The sole survivor of a horrific massacre, Mary tells a nightmare of a masked maniac wielding an old skinning knife. Arriving too late to help, her boyfriend Tom Bailey is plagued by guilt. SUMMER 1992. The camp reopens as Camp Summer Fun. Now a sheriff's deputy, Tom doubts this is a good idea, but the camp has been refurbished, the counselors hired, and the little campers are on the way. Responding to reports of a blood-curdling howl near the camp, he again arrives too late to save anyone except a single brutalized teen. The killer nowhere to be found. Hoping to catch the killer and finally right his mistakes, Tom reconnects with Mary. She's convinced that the killer is not human but instead a rural legend known as the Hungry Hare. The sheriff wants the case closed, b

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