![]() ![]() To wit, what appears to be the main plot of the book (at least at first) is the story of the titular slasher flick itself: despite a long history of tragedy and violence, Camp Goose Mountain (known to locals by a decidedly more lurid nickname) is all set to reopen for the summer with a new batch of teenage counsellors, including good girl Penny, her hard-partying BFF Rhonda, and dreamboat jock Terry. ![]() Danielewski’s House of Leaves, Camp Ghoul Mountain interweaves multiple independent narratives, each one taking place within its own separate, but not entirely self-contained, reality. Taking a footnote-flooded page out of Mark Z. Indeed, for genre fans with a taste for tongue-in-cheek metafiction, this may well be the first must-read small-press horror novel of 2019. ![]() The fact that it turns out to be something more complex elevates author Jonathan Raab’s latest work beyond what might appear at first glance to be just a gimmick. If Camp Ghoul Mountain Part VI: The Official Novelization presented “only” the narrative of a nonexistent slasher movie, that itself would be a hell of a hook. ![]()
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