10 Books Perfect For Slasher Summer
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Love it or hate it, TikTok has become a great hub for learning about new trends, movies, TV shows, and books. One trend that is currently taking over the platform is “Slasher Summer” which is an aesthetic that many live by, but it is also a celebration of the subgenre of horror. Fans are currently making their lists of TV shows and films to watch this July and August, but we can’t forget about the bookworms! Here is a list of 10 novels that you need to add to your “Slasher Summer” reading list.
10. Camp Hackaway (Cameron Kane)
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This novel takes the classic summer slasher to a whole new level. The best way to describe this novel is Friday the 13th meets Terminator. The story follows a group of counselors who, after arriving at camp, are quickly faced with unimaginable horror. As the counselors struggle to survive, they quickly learn that the killer is not what they seem.
Camp Hackaway is available on Kindle Unlimited.
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9. Tastes Like Candy (Ivy Tholen)
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This is easily one of the most gruesome YA novels I have ever read. The story follows a group of high school seniors who are participating in the town’s annual scavenger hunt. They arrive at the closed fairgrounds and quickly learn that they won’t be the ones doing the hunting. The group is quickly picked off in increasingly horrifying ways.
Tastes Like Candy is available on Kindle Unlimited.
8. The Lake (Natasha Preston)
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This book follows best friends Esme and Kayla as they return to Camp Pine Lake for the first time in eight years. The last time they were at the camp, they were children, and it was the most terrifying experience of their lives. Now at 17, they return as counselors hoping to make new memories while keeping their secrets safely buried. Unfortunately, someone at the camp knows what happened, and they aren’t going to let the best friends get off so easily.
7. The Counselors (Jessica Goodman)
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This book follows Goldie as she returns to Camp Alpine Lake as a counselor. The camp is where parents drop off their rich kids for eight weeks, and Goldie loves it. Unfortunately, she returns to camp with a dark secret that she is desperate to share with her best friends. She isn’t the only one with a secret, though, and when one of the teens turns up dead, she realizes that she can’t trust anyone and that the more questions she asks, the more terrifying everything becomes.
6. Clown In A Cornfield (Adam Cesare)
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This novel is truly a wild ride, and it is currently being made into a TV series! The story follows a town that is split in half after the death of a young girl. On one side, the teens in the town are trying to live their lives and enjoy their last days of high school. On the other side are the adults who blame the teens for everything that is wrong with their town. As tensions rise, the town’s mascot, Frendo the Clown, comes to life and begins killing the teens.
5. The Island (Natasha Preston)
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This novel has the most unique location of any of the books on this list. The story follows a group of influencers who have been invited to an isolated island to experience a one-of-a-kind amusement park that has recently been built. Within hours of their arrival, a member of the group goes missing, a storm moves in, and slowly they are picked off one by one.
4. Summer Rental (Rektok Ross)
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This novel claims to be “Mean Girls meets Scream,” and it certainly delivers! The book follows a group of friends who have traveled to Southern Florida to celebrate their high school graduation and the Fourth of July. As a hurricane bares down on the group, secrets from their past come back for vengeance.
Summer Rental is available on Kindle Unlimited.
3. Party Summer (R.L. Stine)
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R.L. Stine is truly the master of YA horror, and he is most notably known for his Fear Street and Goosebumps series. This is one of his Fear Street Super Chiller novels, and it follows a group of four friends who travel to a small island off of Cape Cod to work at The Howling Wolf Inn. When they arrive to find the hotel abandoned and the island all but deserted, they are given the run of the hotel by the owner. Then the screams begin, and soon after, the walls start dripping blood, a mysterious man arrives at the hotel, and the owner is murdered. The friends are trapped, and they are running out of time.
2. Summer Slasher Horror Anthology Volume 1 (Edited By Clay Anderson)
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This is the perfect book for “Slasher Summer” because it has something for everyone. The anthology contains 16 different stories, all set in the summer. Whether you're looking for a classic summer camp slasher, horrors lying in the depths of an abandoned mineshaft, or a nightmare-filled TV broadcast, this book has it all!
Summer Slasher Horror Anthology Volume 1 is available on Kindle Unlimited.
1. Lights Out (R.L. Stine)
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As mentioned above, R.L. Stine is the master of YA horror, and this is one of the best Fear Street novels in the series. The book follows camp counselor Holly, who is working to discover why someone is trying to destroy Camp Nightwing. Acts of vandalism and then the death of a fellow counselor leaves Holly racing against the clock to uncover who the killer is before she becomes the next victim.
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