Camping Thriller

From MxM Author Florian Parent - Gay Prize 2024 & 2025. "I finished it in one sitting. I still have tears in my eyes." — Michael, Amazon reader "Gripping from the first page to the last. You can't put it down." — Philippe, Amazon reader "I wasn't expecting this ending. Absolutely devastating. I loved every page." — Kris, Amazon reader Summer 1997. Julien, 15, arrives at summer camp in the south of France expecting two carefree weeks with his best friends. Then Thomas shows up — and nothing is the same. Between fear, forbidden feelings, and a shattering secret neither of them asked ...

He thought they were only legend… until they threatened his family Carter Mitchell, a single father of two, seeks a fresh start in the peaceful countryside near Simeon Heights, Oregon. However, his seemingly idyllic new life takes a perilous turn when he encounters legendary creatures that he once believed to be mere myths. As hostility from the creatures escalates, Carter finds himself caught in a deadly turf war. Protecting his children while holding his life together becomes a near-impossible task. Yet amid the chaos, he finds unexpected allies—and an unexpected romance that ...

Still mourning the death of her own fiancée, Lauren Hudson must put on a brave face for her family as they gather in Zion National Park for her brother’s wedding. He’s co-founded a “glamping” (glamorous camping) start-up with Sadie, the soon-to-be bride whom the rest of the Hudsons have yet to meet, and they’re hosting their small destination wedding for their nearest and dearest right on their own campgrounds.

There are always stories told around the fire at summer camp—tall tales about gruesome murders and unhinged killers, concocted to scare new arrivals and lend an extra jolt of excitement to those hormone-charged nights. At Camp Luft-Shawk, nicknamed Camp Love Shack, there are stories about a creeping fog that brings death with it. But here, they're not just campfire tales. Here, the stories are real.

An aging pop star will stop at nothing to preserve her youthful beauty! "Classic horror tale with a fresh twist. Equal parts Friday the 13th, Eyes Without a Face and The Skin I Live In, Unmasked takes familiar ingredients, joyfully mashes them together, and creates something refreshingly new." "PREPARE TO BE SCARED! A Taut, Sexy Page-Turning Gothic Thriller!" "It has all the trappings of cult horror, but swims in the realm of a psychological thriller while commenting on the very real (and often dangerous) pursuit of beauty and fame in our media-driven society." The world-renowned pop star, ...

The counselors are meant to protect the campers. But what happens when the real monster is already inside the fence? Nate thought this summer at Camp Silver Howler would be easy—another season of cynical camp songs and keeping kids from getting lost in the woods. He was wrong. It starts with a footprint too large to be real. Then, a chilling howl that silences the forest. When a young camper is mauled, Nate knows this is no ordinary animal. The attacks are too smart, too brutal. There’s something intelligent hunting in the darkness, and the flimsy cabins and flickering lights won't keep...

TUCSON, ARIZONA — 1996 “Some places don’t stay closed…” Camp Ketchum has been shut down for a year. The gates are rusted. The cabins are rotting. The desert has almost swallowed it whole. Almost. Luna and her friends break in for one night of fun—beer, dares, and a thrill they won’t forget. The owner’s nephew gets them inside. Easy. Too easy. Because something else is already there. Across Arizona, a killer is moving through the night. They call him Rafe Ramon… the Night Valley Snake. And tonight, his trail goes cold in the Tucson Mountains. Inside Camp Ketchum. No phones....

In this Black Mirror style series, each Witching Hour 60-minute read takes you on an edge-of-your-seat journey that can be read in a single sitting. In Outward, we follow the life of Robby Boulder, a teenage addict who is forced to attend a new-age, walk-in-the-woods-style rehab. After the death of his father the previous year, he found himself in the throes of addiction. Then, late one evening, he woke up to a figure in his room, shaking him awake. The man dragged him into his van with three other troubled teens, promising salvation for the price of one week in the woods. But, once Robby ...

The Blackwater Ridge trail feels safe. It is managed and predictable. A flat tire changes everything. Sophie Moran and her father find themselves stranded as daylight fades. They are not alone in the trees. Something is moving through the undergrowth. A local outbreak has breached the containment zone. The animals are acting under new instructions. Their movements are mechanical. Their aggression is absolute. Henry Hale and his family are also trapped on the mountain. They barricade themselves inside an old ranger station. They must work together to survive the night. The threat outside is ...

They called her a runaway. Twenty‑three years later, someone finally asks who changed the file. Mara Ellison has spent her adult life trying not to think about the summer her cabinmate vanished from Camp Briar. She has a safe job as a pharmacy tech in Charlotte, a tiny one‑bedroom apartment, and a scar through her eyebrow that no one ever connects to the Camp Briar dock. But when a rising true‑crime podcast starts digging into Aria Benton’s “runaway” case and three other missing girls, Mara recognises the name that connects them all – and realises the man she remembers from ...

Psychological thriller unreliable narrator cold case—a true crime video podcaster with a devastating personal connection investigates a sixteen-year-old unsolved child murder at an abandoned Texas camp, only to discover the colleague who brought her there has been manipulating her from the start. Blending buried memory, intimate betrayal, found footage tension, a shocking twist, a survivor's reckoning, and a heroine who must outthink two dangerous men to escape the woods alive. One camp. One cold case. One survivor who was never meant to walk out. I'M A TRUE CRIME PODCASTER. I built my ...

Camp Rookwood is a place to hide. Jonah Rourke took the maintenance job to isolate himself from the world. He locks himself in a concrete cellar every full moon to keep his curse contained. A record heatwave draws something ancient out of the deep woods. Silas Creed is an apex lycanthrope who has hunted these mountains for decades. He severs the power lines and blocks the gravel roads. He traps forty two children inside the remote compound. Silas does not just want a meal. He wants Jonah to stop fighting his true nature and join the pack. He unleashes a ferocious assault on the camp to ...

When Milan Patel visits his parents at their family-run motel in Montana, he's expecting the usual drama. But shortly after he arrives, his father mysteriously dies in the motel pool. Now everyone's a suspect. What was meant to be a quick trip becomes Milan's worst nightmare, as he races to solve his father's murder while confronting the past he tried to leave behind.

Hidden secrets and deadly lies… Following the incident that nearly killed her boyfriend, Detective Charlotte Pierce needs a weekend away with him in the quaint mountain town of Quail Lake, California. However, their trip is interrupted when a sixteen-year-old camp counselor goes missing. The girl’s body is later found by the lake shore with strangulation marks around her neck and bruises all over. The sleepy town of Quail Lake has only one inexperienced deputy on call and Charlotte can’t say no when the sheriff asks her to help with the investigation. When she begins to speak to the ...

Taylor was willing to do almost anything to protect the people she cared about. Even if it meant joining forces with KOR, the clandestine group she’d agreed to work with. But she hadn’t bargained for this. Taken away from the Agency within hours of coming out of a coma, Taylor finds herself isolated from the very people she has vowed to protect. Trapped with a man she can’t trust, in a place from which there is no escape, she must now not only learn how to survive, but she must come to grips with a truth she has desperately been trying to avoid.

The earthquake was just the beginning. A catastrophic 7.1 tremor has shattered the Uinta Mountains, trapping Ranger David Archer and a handful of survivors behind miles of impassable, broken terrain. But the shifting fault lines have unsealed ancient subterranean vaults that were never meant to be opened. A pack of massive, blind apex predators has emerged from the depths. Hunting entirely by sound, they are fast, ruthless, and perfectly adapted to track terrified prey through the fractured forest. To survive, Archer must lead his group out of the disaster zone. But in a crumbling ...

What if a young deputy vanished without a trace, and the only clues were buried with the dead? When Deputy Eric Strand fails to return from a solo camping trip in the Ozark Mountains, Sheriff Alex Abrams knows something is wrong. Eric is dependable, cautious, and far too experienced to simply disappear. But Eric left no itinerary. No destination. No trail to follow. As search teams sweep the rugged wilderness, they uncover something far more disturbing than a missing deputy - multiple bodies hidden in shallow graves just beyond Alex's jurisdiction. Victims no one knew were there. Victims ...

Surviving the massacre is just the beginning in this razor-sharp take on the summer camp slasher from horror master Craig DiLouie. SUMMER 1983. A blood-soaked summer camp counselor is found staggering down a country road. The sole survivor of a horrific massacre, Mary tells a nightmare of a...

Kate Willis, consultant for the Division of Perceptual Studies at the University of Virginia, is tasked with interviewing six-year-old Henley Haskell about the girl’s alleged past-life recollections. The evaluation also marks a return for Kate to Stockbridge, Massachusetts, and to troubling recollections of her own. Here, twenty-four years ago, Kate’s friend Becca McGuire vanished from her bunk at a now-shuttered summer camp and was never seen again—presumably drowned in Lake Sauquamet.

Some things should not be found. When paleontologist Dr. Elena Marquez is abducted by a ruthless mercenary team, she expects to evaluate an undisturbed fossil bed hidden deep within an uncharted Patagonian valley. Instead, she discovers the impossible. A surviving breeding population of Megatherium. Standing twenty feet tall and armored in bone, these four ton behemoths did not outlive the saber toothed cat by being docile. They are fiercely territorial. They are violently protective. They are perfectly evolved to crush any threat to their environment. When the mercenaries attempt a live ...