The Summer Fun Massacre
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- 65,00 kr
Publisher Description
Surviving the massacre is just the beginning in this razor-sharp summer-camp slasher with a bloody twist from horror master Craig DiLouie.
"The Summer Fun Massacre swings back and forth like a bladed, unstoppable pendulum, gory slasher tale to eerie mystery and back again." —New York Times bestselling author Peter Clines
It’s 1992, and in the heat of Texas, camp Summer Fun rests by a crystalline lake surrounded by a shady forest. The counselors have set out the kayaks, prepped the kitchens, and refurbished the cabins. Now, on the night before camp begins, a bonfire and the teenage counselors’ rites of passage await.
But the camp has a horrifying history. In the ’80s, there was a massacre that left a sole survivor. One final girl. The killer never caught.
Deputy Tom Bailey is always on edge this time of year. There are rumors that the woods are haunted. That the killer might one day return. Tom has deeply personal ties to the ’80s massacre, and those ties have plagued his dreams.
Then Tom gets a call reporting bloodcurdling screams coming from the camp. The real nightmare is just beginning . . . .
“DiLouie finds horror’s heart still beating beneath the cabin floor. An invigorating reminder that nothing ever really ends … unless you break the cycle.” — Andrew F. Sullivan, author of The Handyman Method
“Urban legends, a summer camp, teens in peril, and a seemingly unstoppable killer, Craig DiLouie’s latest is a brutal exercise in nostalgic horror from an author at the top of his game. Fans of the camp-bound slashers of yesteryear will lose their minds.” —Kealan Patrick Burke, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Sour Candy and Kin
★ "An exciting and original slasher featuring a terrifying folk horror twist that will drive fans to sign up for the promised second session of Summer Fun Camp in droves." — Booklist (starred review)
★ “A horror revelation . . . . With its sharp prose and likable main character, the novel is difficult to put down.” – Library Journal (starred review)
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
DiLouie (My Ex, the Antichrist) lends substance and style to a familiar slasher plot in this duology-launching horror novel. In 1992 Ledger, Tex., Deputy Sheriff Tom Bailey performs a nighttime safety check at the local Summer Fun camp and finds the counselors slaughtered, with only one traumatized survivor. The massacre replicates a grisly rampage at the camp that took place just nine years earlier, and that only Tom's then-girlfriend, Marigold, survived. It also resurrects the century-old legend of the "Hungry Hare," a supernatural serial killer who prowls the prairie in a hare mask, dismembering and eating his victims. When Tom's investigation into connections between the two massacres turn up other forgotten incidents of mass murder and suspicious deaths that have plagued Ledger for decades, the tale's trajectory shifts from the hunt for a psycho killer to a well-wrought small-town noir built on dark family secrets, buried local history, and a sense of communal spiritual stagnation whose taint Tom has experienced himself. Through confident, atmospheric prose, DiLouie adds tone and texture to a story that might otherwise have wallowed in splatter and gore. The arresting result raises high expectations for the sequel.
