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lakecountylibrary · 3 months

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If you liked Camp Damascus, try Hell Followed With Us

and vice versa!

There's a lot to love in both Camp Damascus by @drchucktingle and Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White. As horror novels about queer youth with, shall we say, complicated relationships with religion, they have a lot in common - if you liked one you very well may like the other. Let's take a closer look.

Characters:

Both books feature queer, autistic youth fighting back. The characters are trying to survive in a world created for them by abusive adults and religious institutions that hold power over them.

In Camp Damascus we follow Rose (autistic, lesbian). In Hell Followed With Us we follow Benji (neurodivergent, trans) and Nick (autistic, gay).

Genre:

Both books are horror, but with two distinct flavors. Camp Damascus has more of a creepy factor, while Hell Followed With Us leans more toward gore. In Camp there is some mystery to the evil, but in Hell the evil has a name, a face, an address - and a to-do list.

Both books deal with Christian cults and the horrors of indoctrination. They deal with the characters' complicated relationships to Christianity as an institution and God as a concept. They also both quote Christian scripture heavily.

Vibes:

While both books are horror, they do feel very different, largely because the primary emotion that drives each story is different. In Camp Damascus, it's love. In Hell Followed With Us, it's rage. You'll certainly find both emotions in certain quantities in either novel, but what they primarily put forward distinctly changes the vibe of both books.

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So there you have it! Two fantastic reads in close thematic conversation with each other - but still quite distinct. If either sounds good to you, do yourself a favor and check out both today!

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#camp damascus #hell followed with us #andrew joseph white #chuck tingle #lgbtq books #lgbtq reads #lgbtq authors #lgbtq characters #horror #horror novel #queer horror #book review #book recommendations #books and reading #booklr #book recs #LCPL recs #robin's recs

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pseudobohemianlosers · 1 year

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Shirley Jackson’s original sketch of the house’s layout for The Haunting of Hill House.

#the haunting of hill house #shirley jackson #gothic literature #books and literature #books #classics #goth #horror #horror novel #female gothic

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mommy-mystic · 7 months

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littleststarfighter · 7 months

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“Just go on dancing with me like this forever and I'll never tire. We'll scrape our shoes on the stars and hang upside down from the moon.” -The Long Walk, Peter McVries

Had to draw my favourite characters from one of my favourite books, The Long Walk by Stephen King. A really heartbreaking story.

prints + patreon

#stephen king #the long walk #peter mcvries #ray garraty #stebbins #horror novel #post apocalyptic

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swanmittens · 1 year

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૮꒰ ˶• ༝ •˶꒱ა 🦢🎀🍒🥣

. ྀི ⊹ “We never joke about bunnies, Bunny.”

⁺ ⋆ ˚｡⋆୨୧˚ -Bunny by Mona Awad ⋆୨୧˚ ⋆

(My most favorite book ever)

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rootworks · 3 months

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reread volume one

#tftgs #tales from the gas station #gas station jack #jack townsend #jack tftgs #horror novel

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w4rrote · 2 years

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would you actually date him? be srs.

#john doe fanart #john doe game #john doe #horror novel #psycho #psycho lover #weirdcore #horrorcore #horror #boyfriend #virtual boy #virtual boyfriend #copied almost all the hashtags lol

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the-bloody-cultist-vn · 2 months

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here's Alex!

#the bloody cultist #alex blood #my art #visual novel #horror novel #blood #gore #guro #male yandere #at least he looks like that here lmao

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kaine-chan · 2 years

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Yeah...Yandere clowns.... I had too many color variants about this art in mind, so I dunno + small gif :D

#something wrong with sunny day jack #swwsdj #sunny day jack #visual novel #my art #my artwork #Fanart #horror novel #digital art

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paulaandsoon · 8 months

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My redraw of Gatobob's demo screenshot!

Im sooo excited with remix. Design looks absolutely banger

#boyfriend to death #btd #renpy #art #btd strade #btd2 #horror #horror novel #sketch #strade #ibispaintx #redraw

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microwavensf · 8 months

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John Doe 👁️

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barbiehairbrush · 5 months

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Vintage pulp horror novel covers

#pulp horror #pulp fiction #horror #vintage horror #retro horror #60s horror #70s horror #horror novel #horror art #macabre

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brokehorrorfan · 6 months

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I Was a Teenage Slasher by New York Times bestselling author Stephen Graham Jones (My Heart Is a Chainsaw, The Only Good Indians) will be published on July 16, 2024 via Simon & Schuster.

A slasher story told from the killer's perspective, the 384-page horror novel will be available in hardcover, e-book, and audio book. Jon Bush designed the jacket cover. Read on for the synopsis.

1989, Lamesa, Texas. A small west Texas town driven by oil and cotton—and a place where everyone knows everyone else’s business. So it goes for Tolly Driver, a good kid with more potential than application, seventeen, and about to be cursed to kill for revenge. Here Stephen Graham Jones explores the Texas he grew up in, the unfairness of being on the outside, through the slasher horror he lives but from the perspective of the killer, Tolly, writing his own autobiography. Find yourself rooting for a killer in this summer teen movie of a novel gone full blood-curdling tragic.

Pre-order I Was a Teenage by Stephen Graham Jones.

#stephen graham jones #i was a teenage slasher #slasher #horror #horror novel #horror books #simon and schuster #book #gift #80s horror #1980s horror #80s slashers #my heart is a chainsaw #the only good indians #jon bush

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mysharona1987 · 5 months

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