A review by jdhacker
Camp Ghoul Mountain Part VI: The Official Novelization by Jonathan Raab

challenging dark funny mysterious reflective tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

Camp Ghoul Mountain is an amazing book, though difficult to describe briefly. Horror novel, novelization of an 80s style slasher franchise movie that never was with alternating chapters of analysis and documentary style background context of the said film very much like what Orrin Grey gives us about real world horror films. But we've also got anti-capitalist american system messaging, aliens, the overall embrace of the high strange and fortean as one familiar with Raab's work might expect...and a whole lot of weed smoking. My father would have loved everything about this novel, and I can think of nothing better I could have chosen to read on the weekend that is the anniversary of his loss.