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Wrong Turn: The Official Novelization
Deep in the remote woods of West Virginia, the wrong turn can be your last.
When Thomas Avon takes a detour to avoid a traffic jam, he collides with a group of stranded friends whose car has been mysteriously sabotaged. Stranded with no cell service and miles from any civilization, they set out in search of help, only to discover that something far worse than isolation waits among the trees.
Based on the screenplay by Alan B McElroy, this novelization plunges deeper into the backwoods. It explores so much more of the characters, the terror, the desperation, and the unrelenting brutality of the original story.
Featuring an exclusive forward by Alan B McElroy
When Thomas Avon takes a detour to avoid a traffic jam, he collides with a group of stranded friends whose car has been mysteriously sabotaged. Stranded with no cell service and miles from any civilization, they set out in search of help, only to discover that something far worse than isolation waits among the trees.
Based on the screenplay by Alan B McElroy, this novelization plunges deeper into the backwoods. It explores so much more of the characters, the terror, the desperation, and the unrelenting brutality of the original story.
Featuring an exclusive forward by Alan B McElroy
204 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 30, 2026
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Displaying 1 - 7 of 7 reviews
August 7, 2026
I love the movie, and I loved the book it was different from the movie, but also the same in some ways but I loved every minute of it 😃 I absolutely love me some backwoods cannibal horror books, and I really need more. Does anyone have any recommendations?
August 13, 2026
ok, I’ve read a number of the novelizations by the author, and although he can put a good story on the page, he has GOT to work on basic grammar, or at least get an editor that is paying attention. Here’s the problem: there are WAY too many sentences fragments throughout the book, and the problem shows up in numerous other novelizations also. And no, I’m not making this up just to be a douche.
Don’t believe me? Read the book and see.
Just for the hell of it, I took about five examples from this book and tried typing them into a Word Doc exactly as they were in the book, and the grammar check flagged every example immediately as ‘sentence fragment, consider revising.’ So, any Word file will pick up on the problem, so how the hell are all the fragments getting through? Please fix this problem, commas are not your enemy!
The reason it’s frustrating is it detracts from material that I really want to enjoy. Clearly, the author knows and loves the material, and he does a great job putting it on the page, minus that one glaring problem. The pacing is always great, and he really brings these old films to life, but the damn fragments make him seem careless. Then again, any editor should have caught all this, but maybe Echo On publications can’t afford one. In that case, get more test readers.
In closing, if this one annoyance was fixed, I would probably buy damn near every one of the novelizations the company does, cause I love the films. As of right now, I will have to skip them in favor of ones written by other authors that the publishing company puts out there.
Don’t believe me? Read the book and see.
Just for the hell of it, I took about five examples from this book and tried typing them into a Word Doc exactly as they were in the book, and the grammar check flagged every example immediately as ‘sentence fragment, consider revising.’ So, any Word file will pick up on the problem, so how the hell are all the fragments getting through? Please fix this problem, commas are not your enemy!
The reason it’s frustrating is it detracts from material that I really want to enjoy. Clearly, the author knows and loves the material, and he does a great job putting it on the page, minus that one glaring problem. The pacing is always great, and he really brings these old films to life, but the damn fragments make him seem careless. Then again, any editor should have caught all this, but maybe Echo On publications can’t afford one. In that case, get more test readers.
In closing, if this one annoyance was fixed, I would probably buy damn near every one of the novelizations the company does, cause I love the films. As of right now, I will have to skip them in favor of ones written by other authors that the publishing company puts out there.
August 6, 2026
WOW i flew through this! wrong turn was one of the first horror movies i ever saw growing up and really made me the horror fan i am today. so when i found out about this novelization, i immediately ordered it. this is SUCH A GOOD ADAPTATION! i really hope this author continues to write novelizations for the rest of the wrong turn movies.. especially wrong turn 2 and wrong turn 4.. my absolute favorites. it would amazing to see how they adapt to books! this book is easily a favorite of mine this year, this felt so nostalgic for me.
Review of advance copy received from Author
As a fan of this movie (granted most of that was due to my obsession with Buffy and Eliza Dushku) when Christian said he was writing the book, I was all over it.
What really makes this book stand out, is the extra detail in the pages, the atmospheric descriptions and its ability to provide clear albeit disturbing imagery in your head.
The ending is also different to the movie, giving it a complete and bookended feel that really adds to the experience.
A great job with this one, seriously.
What really makes this book stand out, is the extra detail in the pages, the atmospheric descriptions and its ability to provide clear albeit disturbing imagery in your head.
The ending is also different to the movie, giving it a complete and bookended feel that really adds to the experience.
A great job with this one, seriously.
September 1, 2026
Taking a detour on a deserted country road in the Appalachia's, Thomas Avon has an accident, hitting a jeep stuck in the middle of the road with it's tyres shredded.
What happens next will scar him and the young people he meets for the rest of their lives, which may not be long as they try to escape the backwoods and the three deformed, inbred psychos hunting them through the woods
What happens next will scar him and the young people he meets for the rest of their lives, which may not be long as they try to escape the backwoods and the three deformed, inbred psychos hunting them through the woods
October 26, 2026
Good novelization for Halloween season.
July 6, 2026
Wrong Turn is a freaky and underrated slice of backwoods horror. This novel was a lot of fun, it was really cool that it was the original screenplay and differed quite a bit from the movie. But man the ending here just plain sucks. If it was the original ending in the original script, REALLY glad they didn’t go with it for the movie.
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