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Camp Cannibal
It’s been two years since the summer that changed Dave’s life.
It was summer camp, girls, skinny dipping, smoking joints in the woods, and…a horde of cannibals that kidnapped his girlfriend. He hasn’t really been the same ever since. It doesn’t help that his family thought he was lying and sent him to a therapist. Dave is so tired of being made fun of that he doesn’t talk about that summer to anyone. In fact, no one has ever heard the whole story.
Now Dave has been invited to a wild spring break vacation in Mexico with his cousin. There will be tequila, sun, hangovers, and loosened inhibitions. But Dave just wants to sit in his room and brood…until he meets Sean, a neurotic college student with issues of his own who wants to hear the story.
Dave has a patient audience in his new friend. He realizes that he has been silent long enough.
It’s finally time to tell the truth about Camp Cannibal…
It was summer camp, girls, skinny dipping, smoking joints in the woods, and…a horde of cannibals that kidnapped his girlfriend. He hasn’t really been the same ever since. It doesn’t help that his family thought he was lying and sent him to a therapist. Dave is so tired of being made fun of that he doesn’t talk about that summer to anyone. In fact, no one has ever heard the whole story.
Now Dave has been invited to a wild spring break vacation in Mexico with his cousin. There will be tequila, sun, hangovers, and loosened inhibitions. But Dave just wants to sit in his room and brood…until he meets Sean, a neurotic college student with issues of his own who wants to hear the story.
Dave has a patient audience in his new friend. He realizes that he has been silent long enough.
It’s finally time to tell the truth about Camp Cannibal…
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First published August 3, 2011
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October 22, 2012
"Camp Cannibal" by Andrew Culver is nothing like what I was expecting when I downloaded it. It was much better. I honestly expected it to consist of a number of goofy kids telling "scary" stories around a campfire. I downloaded it because I was in the mood for some brainless groaners. What I got was a deeply involved and seriously creepy novella which very nicely took on a taboo subject, and did it justice.
Camp Cannibal is told from the point of view of one of the summer campers, Dave, who was attending camp for his last year of eligibility. He was telling the story several years later to a guy his sister had brought along for Spring break, just to keep an eye on Dave, because he had been in an antisocial shell ever since that summer.
Dave's ambition was to pass the necessary tests and come back as a counselor for the foreseeable future. Unfortunately, his principal opposition was a bit of a jerk whose dad just happened to be rich, and willing to make a large donation to the camp IF his son was selected to be the new counselor.
As expected, the jerky kid pulled some stunts that could have been quite dangerous to several of the other campers. However, when bad things really started to happen in earnest, Dave naturally assumed it was just more of the jerk's practical jokes. But the blood was real. And Dave was increasingly convinced that he kept seeing somebody in the woods, out of the corner of his eye.
This story is gruesome, along the lines of some of the scarier Hollywood movies from the 80's and 90's. Dave proves himself to be a very capable young man, and without his quick thinking more people would have wound up dead. But to tell his story correctly, he insists on complete silence, no questions, and he would stop when he got tired of talking. Consequently the full story came out over a period of several months.
Was it all true? Or was Dave just really good at telling stories? In the end, it all came down to what you wanted to believe. Personally, I think this was a great story, and I highly recommend it to people who enjoy having their socks scared off! But as much as I enjoyed reading the story, I can assure you, I would NOT want to be in Dave's shoes.
Camp Cannibal is told from the point of view of one of the summer campers, Dave, who was attending camp for his last year of eligibility. He was telling the story several years later to a guy his sister had brought along for Spring break, just to keep an eye on Dave, because he had been in an antisocial shell ever since that summer.
Dave's ambition was to pass the necessary tests and come back as a counselor for the foreseeable future. Unfortunately, his principal opposition was a bit of a jerk whose dad just happened to be rich, and willing to make a large donation to the camp IF his son was selected to be the new counselor.
As expected, the jerky kid pulled some stunts that could have been quite dangerous to several of the other campers. However, when bad things really started to happen in earnest, Dave naturally assumed it was just more of the jerk's practical jokes. But the blood was real. And Dave was increasingly convinced that he kept seeing somebody in the woods, out of the corner of his eye.
This story is gruesome, along the lines of some of the scarier Hollywood movies from the 80's and 90's. Dave proves himself to be a very capable young man, and without his quick thinking more people would have wound up dead. But to tell his story correctly, he insists on complete silence, no questions, and he would stop when he got tired of talking. Consequently the full story came out over a period of several months.
Was it all true? Or was Dave just really good at telling stories? In the end, it all came down to what you wanted to believe. Personally, I think this was a great story, and I highly recommend it to people who enjoy having their socks scared off! But as much as I enjoyed reading the story, I can assure you, I would NOT want to be in Dave's shoes.
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