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When the football team van swerves off the road and crashes after the big game, everyone blames Teddy, the class nerd and the teams's mascot. While his tormentors take shelter at Camp Crystal Lake, Teddy trades in his mascot suit for Jason's hockey mask--and makes this a night his classmates will never forget.
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March 13, 2020
It is a dark and stormy night and time for revenge of the nerd, Friday the 13th style. Teddy Bateman is Buzzy the Bee, Carville Hornets’ team mascot. He has a crush on Summer but has never had a girlfriend. This short, geeky senior is understandably angry about being the target of bullying.
He’s on the way back from a football game with the players, cheerleaders and coach that contribute to his misery. Good on him for being the one who finds the mask. It’s a pity the mask wearer usually winds up a corpse in this series. Jason himself is still a no show.
Carville Hornets (a school football team):
Coach Wardell - if you don’t play sports then you’re of no interest to Coach, unless he’s taking out his frustration on you.
Russ Johnson - linebacker star on the field and boyfriend of Belinda off the field.
Slick Chambers - top receiver and the fastest player. He’s a serial cheater and doesn’t say ‘no’ to drugs, so not even his “sexy eyebrows” will be enough to save this player.
Dave Myers - quarterback and captain of the team, who also does drugs. Dave has put a limit on the amount of times his ditzy but loyal girlfriend is allowed to tell him she loves him each day, so I’m not sure we‘re cheering him on to survive.
Billy Raymond - centre. He travelled back on the bus so, although we’re briefly introduced to him, he’s irrelevant to this story.
Tommy Bartlett - kicker. He took the bus as well. Therefore, he’s irrelevant too.
The Cheerleaders (there are ten but we’re only introduced to four):
Missy Lowe - cheerleading captain. Missy is tall and blonde. She’s enthusiastic, especially about her love for Dave (who she knits for) but we constantly reminded how dumb she is.
Summer Stone - has four older brothers and is a cynic. She’s tall, with dark hair and blue eyes. Her weakness is Slick, who has no doubt cheated on her a lot more times than she knows about.
Belinda Karras - a control freak, Belinda is short and pretty.
Arlene Kerdell - the top girl of the cheerleading pyramid, Arlene takes the bus, so we didn’t really need to learn her name.
The Locals:
The Trooper - for someone who plays a larger role in the story than I initially expected, I thought he had earned a name. I was wrong; he’s the Trooper the entire time. Although law enforcement don’t usually fare well in horror stories he does warn some randoms about the town’s history, so there’s a slim chance he’ll survive.
Tina - other than being the trooper’s wife, the only other piece of information I have about this woman is spoilery in nature. She’s unlikely to survive.
Cliff - an architect and the trooper’s best friend. His character is essentially only there to help tell Tina’s spoilery story so we may as well dig his grave now.
The Randoms:
Donny Borelli - as far as I can tell, Donny and his friend, Stu Bergman, served their purpose in this book as soon as they introduced the trooper, the cave and the vampire bats.
Mr Morrisey - bus driver. It appears they are smart enough not to take the Crystal Lake detour.
It took quite a while for the hockey mask action to commence. This is a short book, yet it wasn’t until page 96 that someone put the mask on and the first kill by the person wearing the hockey mask didn’t happen until page 116! Even then, one of my biggest disappointments of the third book was repeated here: the hockey mask guy wasn’t even directly responsible for about half of the kills.
The Death Toll:
Best Insult:
There are some racist, sexist and homophobic comments and enough discrepancies between the text and cover image to tell me that the artist didn’t read the book. The uniforms on the cover are blue and white but in the book they’re orange and black. The kid in the hockey mask is supposed to have dark, curly hair and the blonde girl is supposed to have her hair in a whole pile of braids. The killer doesn’t wield a machete in the book, the van is supposed to be white and, as I’ve already said, the massacre takes place on a dark and stormy night.
If you are planning on reading this series you should probably read them in order. The second book follows on from the first and the events of the third book are mentioned in this one.
He’s on the way back from a football game with the players, cheerleaders and coach that contribute to his misery. Good on him for being the one who finds the mask. It’s a pity the mask wearer usually winds up a corpse in this series. Jason himself is still a no show.
“You’re going to die”The potential Voorhees victims in this book:
Carville Hornets (a school football team):
Coach Wardell - if you don’t play sports then you’re of no interest to Coach, unless he’s taking out his frustration on you.
Russ Johnson - linebacker star on the field and boyfriend of Belinda off the field.
Slick Chambers - top receiver and the fastest player. He’s a serial cheater and doesn’t say ‘no’ to drugs, so not even his “sexy eyebrows” will be enough to save this player.
Dave Myers - quarterback and captain of the team, who also does drugs. Dave has put a limit on the amount of times his ditzy but loyal girlfriend is allowed to tell him she loves him each day, so I’m not sure we‘re cheering him on to survive.
Billy Raymond - centre. He travelled back on the bus so, although we’re briefly introduced to him, he’s irrelevant to this story.
Tommy Bartlett - kicker. He took the bus as well. Therefore, he’s irrelevant too.
The Cheerleaders (there are ten but we’re only introduced to four):
Missy Lowe - cheerleading captain. Missy is tall and blonde. She’s enthusiastic, especially about her love for Dave (who she knits for) but we constantly reminded how dumb she is.
Summer Stone - has four older brothers and is a cynic. She’s tall, with dark hair and blue eyes. Her weakness is Slick, who has no doubt cheated on her a lot more times than she knows about.
Belinda Karras - a control freak, Belinda is short and pretty.
Arlene Kerdell - the top girl of the cheerleading pyramid, Arlene takes the bus, so we didn’t really need to learn her name.
The Locals:
The Trooper - for someone who plays a larger role in the story than I initially expected, I thought he had earned a name. I was wrong; he’s the Trooper the entire time. Although law enforcement don’t usually fare well in horror stories he does warn some randoms about the town’s history, so there’s a slim chance he’ll survive.
Tina - other than being the trooper’s wife, the only other piece of information I have about this woman is spoilery in nature. She’s unlikely to survive.
Cliff - an architect and the trooper’s best friend. His character is essentially only there to help tell Tina’s spoilery story so we may as well dig his grave now.
The Randoms:
Donny Borelli - as far as I can tell, Donny and his friend, Stu Bergman, served their purpose in this book as soon as they introduced the trooper, the cave and the vampire bats.
Mr Morrisey - bus driver. It appears they are smart enough not to take the Crystal Lake detour.
“You’re going where?”While I wasn’t invested in any character enough to hope they lived (or died) I did have to give most of the characters some credit. Other than Donny, Stu and the locals, no one actually planned on spending any time in Voorhees-land. The Carville Hornets are actually the only ones in this series so far that didn’t reserve their death day in advance.
“BEHIND YOU!”With spelunking, strange hybrid vampire bats, cheating partners and too much time spent at the football game, this is definitely not my favourite slaughter fest of the series. The mask has once again added more magic to its repertoire, with a newly found ability to . The introduction of the cave, especially minus a backstory, felt like a weird choice although it did provide a semi-legitimate reason for the inclusion of the vampire bats.
A series of unanswered questions relate directly to the bats, the most pressing of which is: What is their backstory and why are we not told about it?
It took quite a while for the hockey mask action to commence. This is a short book, yet it wasn’t until page 96 that someone put the mask on and the first kill by the person wearing the hockey mask didn’t happen until page 116! Even then, one of my biggest disappointments of the third book was repeated here: the hockey mask guy wasn’t even directly responsible for about half of the kills.
The Death Toll:
Best Insult:
“You’re the world’s biggest fungus brain”Kill of the Book: .
There are some racist, sexist and homophobic comments and enough discrepancies between the text and cover image to tell me that the artist didn’t read the book. The uniforms on the cover are blue and white but in the book they’re orange and black. The kid in the hockey mask is supposed to have dark, curly hair and the blonde girl is supposed to have her hair in a whole pile of braids. The killer doesn’t wield a machete in the book, the van is supposed to be white and, as I’ve already said, the massacre takes place on a dark and stormy night.
If you are planning on reading this series you should probably read them in order. The second book follows on from the first and the events of the third book are mentioned in this one.
February 24, 2019
I wasn't quite up to a "mercy"-abusing book by Delores Fossen, which I had originally been meaning to read, so instead sat down with this quickie YA thriller based on the Friday The 13th films. (Or more specifically, Jason Goes To Hell. Each book has someone putting on Jason's hockey mask, becoming possessed, and going on a murder spree! This time it is Teddy Bateman, the picked-on mascot for the Carville high school football team.
However, it takes a long time to get to the killing! And that's what drags this book down. It isn't until nearly page 100 in a 187 page book that Teddy starts stalking the football jocks and cheerleaders who have tormented him. Up until that point, we have utterly pointless chapters involving two guys going cave spelunking, and some trooper getting revenge on his unfaithful wife and her lover. What the hell? This is supposed to be about someone in a hockey mask killing people! What is this shit? And don't get me started on the vampire bats!!! The book's blurb mentions a machete, but even Jason's standard weapon is missing in action here!
However, once the killings start, it delivers the usual bloodletting fun. It's certainly a fast, guilty pleasure read, although a step down from the previous book in the series. And I should mention - the books can be read on their own, but the authors drops little bits of continuity throughout the whole series (the carnival from the previous book gets a few mentions), which I liked. If only Jason (or the person behind the mask) had occupied the plot, rather than all those unnecessary characters.
However, it takes a long time to get to the killing! And that's what drags this book down. It isn't until nearly page 100 in a 187 page book that Teddy starts stalking the football jocks and cheerleaders who have tormented him. Up until that point, we have utterly pointless chapters involving two guys going cave spelunking, and some trooper getting revenge on his unfaithful wife and her lover. What the hell? This is supposed to be about someone in a hockey mask killing people! What is this shit? And don't get me started on the vampire bats!!! The book's blurb mentions a machete, but even Jason's standard weapon is missing in action here!
However, once the killings start, it delivers the usual bloodletting fun. It's certainly a fast, guilty pleasure read, although a step down from the previous book in the series. And I should mention - the books can be read on their own, but the authors drops little bits of continuity throughout the whole series (the carnival from the previous book gets a few mentions), which I liked. If only Jason (or the person behind the mask) had occupied the plot, rather than all those unnecessary characters.
January 12, 2011
About five years ago, a company called Black Flame put out a series of Friday the 13th-inspired novels, featuring Jason Voorhees in all his post-Jason X, but pre-remake, glory. Being a massive Friday the 13th fan, I was curious to check these books out—but after reading their basic plot summaries, I lost interest. The stories sounded ridiculous and barely resembled the Friday the 13th I’d grown up with, that was such an important part of my childhood (if you think it's ridiculous that Friday the 13th would be an important part of anyone's childhood, then welcome to the low-brow portion of our website). These stories seemed to have more in common with the later films in the series, the ones that strayed from the basic slasher formula in hopes of creating something different.
For the record, normally trying to do something different is admirable, preferable to just spitting out the same thing over and over. But not with slashers and not with Friday the 13th. Innovation isn’t necessary with this franchise; and not only isn’t it necessary, it’s traditionally looked down upon by the most hardcore fans of the series.
So I didn’t order the Black Flame books. Maybe if they were 200 pages, I would have, but at 400-plus . . . I mean, it’s Friday the 13th, OK, what the hell were they gonna do for 400 goddamn pages? A few months ago, I decided that I might like to check out the novels after all. I read a lot, and I’ll happily admit my tastes include classics, serious literature, and also some pretty silly stuff. Unfortunately, by the time I’d decided I’d be willing to part with a few bucks for these Black Flame novels, they’d gone out of print and were no longer available for a few bucks.
Looking for the Black Flame books inspired me to re-read the Young Adult horror series written by Eric Morse in 1994. After New Line acquired the rights to the Friday films and put out Jason Goes To Hell, they commissioned a line of books to cash in on the series' name and on the popular YA horror market. This was the time of R. L. Stine and Christopher Pike, before the arguably more talented J. K. Rowling and Stephenie Meyer. Now, I mention those two names while fully aware that neither of those authors write horror. There doesn't seem to currently be as much interest in straight up scary stories in today's YA market; it's more fantasy, dark as that fantasy might be. But in the early 90's, the money makers were horror titles.
Eric Morse (real name William Pattison) wrote four books, all under 200 pages, in the "Camp Crystal Lake Series." He had plans for more, but the series was canceled after the fourth, Road Trip, was released (and very recently, on his website, the author posted the final chapter, going a chapter at a time, for a period of months, of his "fifth Crystal Lake book"). It's hard to imagine why Berkley and New Line would come up with the idea of a book series cash-in on a popular film franchise, only to short that series on advertising, to the point that even today, many fans who've seen every Friday the 13th film aren't aware of the Camp Crystal Lake books.
It seems New Line's only stipulation on granting the rights for print was that the novels couldn't actually feature the Jason Voorhees character. Bummer, right? I mean, it didn't work in Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning [1985]. But recall, that movie was a piece of shit in general, and the reason for its failure wasn't simply the guy-disguised-as-Jason "surprise". The concept Morse came up with, having a different character stumble across the famous Jason Voorhees hockey mask in each story, becoming possessed by his spirit, and carrying out murderous acts on local townsfolk and traveling teenagers, works surprisingly better than you might think.
I got a kick out of these books when they came out. I was in junior high, and a fan of all kinds of horror fiction, including the YA stuff, and nearly jumped out of my pants when I came across these books. I read them with great joy, realizing they were what they were, not exactly Shirley Jackson or Stephen King, but exactly what I wanted--the printed equivalent of the gory, crazy, and often silly horror franchise that I loved so much.
Morse got the tone of the films down with his novels. Despite the YA target audience, the novels are full of ridiculous amounts of violence, high body counts, and inventive death scenes. And they respect the source material. Nothing in the books contradicts anything in the films (which contradicted each other constantly). Morse even takes the time to look a little deeper into the town of Crystal Lake, something else that was rarely done in the films.
In the first book, Mother's Day, a backwoods hunter puts on the hockey mask and terrorizes some kids staying at the long closed campgrounds. The second book, Jason's Curse, involves the sister of one of the kids killed in Mother's Day, as she and her friends set out for the cursed campgrounds, seeking revenge. There's a nice continuity with this series; each book is its own story but makes references to the previous entries.
The third, The Carnival, has a traveling carnival dumb enough to set up shop on, yes that's right, the old campgrounds. I don't know if these guys never watch the news or what, but no one seems to be aware of the camp's legendary murder sprees. It's the same non-logic the movies follow, and I love it (though, thankfully, it never gets quite as silly as some of the goings-on in New Line's Jason Goes To Hell, which was released a year before these books). The fourth book, Road Trip, has a skinny dork putting on the mask and taking revenge on the van-ful of jocks he's been stranded with in the woods outside the camp.
When I read over these books recently, they took me on kind of a nostalgic trip back to my junior high days. Sometimes you pick up something you loved as a kid, to check it out again, and you're disappointed. But with the Camp Crystal Lake books, I found myself pleasantly surprised. If you're a Friday the 13th fan and are unaware of these novels, they're worth checking out, if you can get hold of some used copies. Clearly written by a fan of the series.
For the record, normally trying to do something different is admirable, preferable to just spitting out the same thing over and over. But not with slashers and not with Friday the 13th. Innovation isn’t necessary with this franchise; and not only isn’t it necessary, it’s traditionally looked down upon by the most hardcore fans of the series.
So I didn’t order the Black Flame books. Maybe if they were 200 pages, I would have, but at 400-plus . . . I mean, it’s Friday the 13th, OK, what the hell were they gonna do for 400 goddamn pages? A few months ago, I decided that I might like to check out the novels after all. I read a lot, and I’ll happily admit my tastes include classics, serious literature, and also some pretty silly stuff. Unfortunately, by the time I’d decided I’d be willing to part with a few bucks for these Black Flame novels, they’d gone out of print and were no longer available for a few bucks.
Looking for the Black Flame books inspired me to re-read the Young Adult horror series written by Eric Morse in 1994. After New Line acquired the rights to the Friday films and put out Jason Goes To Hell, they commissioned a line of books to cash in on the series' name and on the popular YA horror market. This was the time of R. L. Stine and Christopher Pike, before the arguably more talented J. K. Rowling and Stephenie Meyer. Now, I mention those two names while fully aware that neither of those authors write horror. There doesn't seem to currently be as much interest in straight up scary stories in today's YA market; it's more fantasy, dark as that fantasy might be. But in the early 90's, the money makers were horror titles.
Eric Morse (real name William Pattison) wrote four books, all under 200 pages, in the "Camp Crystal Lake Series." He had plans for more, but the series was canceled after the fourth, Road Trip, was released (and very recently, on his website, the author posted the final chapter, going a chapter at a time, for a period of months, of his "fifth Crystal Lake book"). It's hard to imagine why Berkley and New Line would come up with the idea of a book series cash-in on a popular film franchise, only to short that series on advertising, to the point that even today, many fans who've seen every Friday the 13th film aren't aware of the Camp Crystal Lake books.
It seems New Line's only stipulation on granting the rights for print was that the novels couldn't actually feature the Jason Voorhees character. Bummer, right? I mean, it didn't work in Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning [1985]. But recall, that movie was a piece of shit in general, and the reason for its failure wasn't simply the guy-disguised-as-Jason "surprise". The concept Morse came up with, having a different character stumble across the famous Jason Voorhees hockey mask in each story, becoming possessed by his spirit, and carrying out murderous acts on local townsfolk and traveling teenagers, works surprisingly better than you might think.
I got a kick out of these books when they came out. I was in junior high, and a fan of all kinds of horror fiction, including the YA stuff, and nearly jumped out of my pants when I came across these books. I read them with great joy, realizing they were what they were, not exactly Shirley Jackson or Stephen King, but exactly what I wanted--the printed equivalent of the gory, crazy, and often silly horror franchise that I loved so much.
Morse got the tone of the films down with his novels. Despite the YA target audience, the novels are full of ridiculous amounts of violence, high body counts, and inventive death scenes. And they respect the source material. Nothing in the books contradicts anything in the films (which contradicted each other constantly). Morse even takes the time to look a little deeper into the town of Crystal Lake, something else that was rarely done in the films.
In the first book, Mother's Day, a backwoods hunter puts on the hockey mask and terrorizes some kids staying at the long closed campgrounds. The second book, Jason's Curse, involves the sister of one of the kids killed in Mother's Day, as she and her friends set out for the cursed campgrounds, seeking revenge. There's a nice continuity with this series; each book is its own story but makes references to the previous entries.
The third, The Carnival, has a traveling carnival dumb enough to set up shop on, yes that's right, the old campgrounds. I don't know if these guys never watch the news or what, but no one seems to be aware of the camp's legendary murder sprees. It's the same non-logic the movies follow, and I love it (though, thankfully, it never gets quite as silly as some of the goings-on in New Line's Jason Goes To Hell, which was released a year before these books). The fourth book, Road Trip, has a skinny dork putting on the mask and taking revenge on the van-ful of jocks he's been stranded with in the woods outside the camp.
When I read over these books recently, they took me on kind of a nostalgic trip back to my junior high days. Sometimes you pick up something you loved as a kid, to check it out again, and you're disappointed. But with the Camp Crystal Lake books, I found myself pleasantly surprised. If you're a Friday the 13th fan and are unaware of these novels, they're worth checking out, if you can get hold of some used copies. Clearly written by a fan of the series.
November 12, 2024
A fun, if somewhat, simple read. The setting was good, I love how Eric Morse sets up these strange meet/greets for teenagers at Crystal Camp Lake to get stalked and killed by our resident masked psychopath. I was a little curious about the bats in this book. Apparently there is a giant mechanical bat in a cave that was almost like a final boss, but nothing is ever mentioned about it. No back story. Other than that one plot thread the rest of the book is fun and simplistic. A "beach read" if you need one. (LOL)
October 14, 2025
Some improvement with F13th type scenarios and thrills but a very confused plot. We need a strong Jason presence back here, the haunted mask has overstayed its welcome.
November 14, 2022
As always, I owe a huge thanks to the 80s Slasher Librarian for making a fan recorded audiobook of this installment in the Friday the 13th Camp Crystal Lake book series and putting it up on his YouTube channel. Seriously, he's doing good, helpful work in making these out-of-print books accessible to other fans, for free. It's important archival work and I highly recommend you look him up if you want to go through this book and other slasher-tied books that are rare and hard to get ahold of.
As far as installments in this series go, I'm not sure if I liked this one more than or less than The Carnival, and I was already very lukewarm on that one. I feel like this book tries to throw too much at you at the beginning, and it ultimately makes it more difficult to keep up with the characters and what's going on. It was also difficult to like most of the characters in this book, but a lot of what was going on was tragic to the point there wasn't any vindictive delight to be had in any of their demises, either. This one is just kind of sitting here at the end of the books in this series that were published physically. But for what it's worth, I'm excited that I got through this and will be able to start on the final book in this series soon! I really hope it's going to knock this book and the third one out of the water!
As far as installments in this series go, I'm not sure if I liked this one more than or less than The Carnival, and I was already very lukewarm on that one. I feel like this book tries to throw too much at you at the beginning, and it ultimately makes it more difficult to keep up with the characters and what's going on. It was also difficult to like most of the characters in this book, but a lot of what was going on was tragic to the point there wasn't any vindictive delight to be had in any of their demises, either. This one is just kind of sitting here at the end of the books in this series that were published physically. But for what it's worth, I'm excited that I got through this and will be able to start on the final book in this series soon! I really hope it's going to knock this book and the third one out of the water!
April 25, 2012
Fun Friday the 13th romp. easy quick read albeit a little juvenile.
Not Shakespeare but fun none the less.
Not Shakespeare but fun none the less.
June 11, 2025
The last Berkley-published book in this series was a weird one. Well, weirder than usual. Bio-mechanical bat creatures (?) aid Jason's latest vessel, a bullied high school student who gets even with the football team members and cheerleaders who tormented him. The vessel even takes on Jason's physicality here, making him stronger, hairier, and bigger.
The fodder wasn't uninteresting, but they also got on my nerves sooner than later. Teen drama and horniness aplenty.
The ginger jock, who was randomly racist toward his Black teammate before dying, seems to be the one wearing the mask on the cover illustration, but he wasn't Jason's vessel here.
There was a random side plot about a cop murdering his cheating wife and best friend, then blaming their deaths on Jason. Another side plot, which intersected with the cop's story, was a pair of hikers who stumbled upon Jason's grotto, the same one where a victim is later brought to as part of a sacrifice.
Overall not as fun and exciting as the previous installment, despite the great setup. Even still, I would have loved a long series of these bizarre and strange tales set in the Friday the 13th universe.
The fodder wasn't uninteresting, but they also got on my nerves sooner than later. Teen drama and horniness aplenty.
The ginger jock, who was randomly racist toward his Black teammate before dying, seems to be the one wearing the mask on the cover illustration, but he wasn't Jason's vessel here.
There was a random side plot about a cop murdering his cheating wife and best friend, then blaming their deaths on Jason. Another side plot, which intersected with the cop's story, was a pair of hikers who stumbled upon Jason's grotto, the same one where a victim is later brought to as part of a sacrifice.
Overall not as fun and exciting as the previous installment, despite the great setup. Even still, I would have loved a long series of these bizarre and strange tales set in the Friday the 13th universe.
September 1, 2024
This was another good installment in the Friday the 13th series. It was the same as the other ones where not a lot happens until about 2/3 in, then its quick succession kills. These books are very short though so it's not like it's very drawn out. I'm still disappointed that Jason doesn't actually appear in the book, and once again, it is his possessed mask. In these books, it is also Camp Crystal Lake that is cursed and it kills as well. I felt very bad for Teddy. No one deserves that level of bullying and those teenagers were all just about insufferable-especially Missy. She is so crazy obsessed with her boyfriend Dave that when he wakes up, she literally starts cheering. This girl lives for her boyfriend. I actually wouldn't have minded seeing Summer and Russ make it and be together in the end but this is Friday the 13th...we rarely see survivors.
September 26, 2022
A slight departure from the three that came before it.
A group of football players and their entourage get caught in Crystal Lake during a rain storm. The nerdy kid and school mascot, finds the mask that has been possessing people for 3 books now, except this time around he turns into Jason Voorhees rather than just possessed.
He begins to stalk his fellow students, as well as the B plot of a homicidal and jealous sheriff.
Some wacky robotic bats return from the haunted house of the carnival, there's a couple red neck spelunkers who get offed by them.
Just some weird random things thrown together for this final entry, not the best of the four, but works just fine along side the others.
A group of football players and their entourage get caught in Crystal Lake during a rain storm. The nerdy kid and school mascot, finds the mask that has been possessing people for 3 books now, except this time around he turns into Jason Voorhees rather than just possessed.
He begins to stalk his fellow students, as well as the B plot of a homicidal and jealous sheriff.
Some wacky robotic bats return from the haunted house of the carnival, there's a couple red neck spelunkers who get offed by them.
Just some weird random things thrown together for this final entry, not the best of the four, but works just fine along side the others.
May 21, 2023
I thought this entire series by Eric Morse was really fantastic. Although I'm not a big YA reader, I really enjoyed these books! This one was kind of sad, though, as it dealt with the topic of bullying and took a tragic and unexpected direction. It was still a great read, and I would love to see these books gain a wider readership. Highly recommended for YA horror and slasher fans!
July 15, 2023
Fun and violent in an 80s sort of way.
September 24, 2015
This book made me sad... It's the ending of the series. I found out there was suppose to be four more to the series but of course the publishers screwed Eric morse!!! That's why I write fan fic of Friday the 13th dedication to this author
December 12, 2023
This book wasn't as good as the others. But still a fun read. It took me longer to get through though because the characters didn't grab me this time around.
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