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Camp Damascus
Chuck Tingle
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INSTANT USA TODAY & INDIE BESTSELLER! A Bram Stoker Award Nominee and CALIBA Golden Poppy Award finalist! A Best Book of 2023 (Vulture) and a Best Horror Book of 2023 (Esquire, Library Journal)! An Indie Next Pick!
“A joyful, furious romp through dark places, Tingle proves he's as good at fear as he is at love.” —T. Kingfisher, bestselling author of What Moves the Dead
From beloved internet icon Chuck Tingle, Camp Damascus is a searing and earnest horror debut about the demons the queer community faces in America, the price of keeping secrets, and finding the courage to burn it all down.
Welcome to Neverton, Montana: home to a God-fearing community with a heart of gold. Nestled high up in the mountains is Camp Damascus, the self-proclaimed “most effective” gay conversion camp in the country. Here, a life free from sin awaits. But the secret behind that success is anything but holy.
And they’ll scare you straight to hell.
Also by Chuck Tingle: Bury Your Gays. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
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Celestial\ \ Steph\ \ • Jul 27
💭 do you read specific genres during different seasons?
💭 do you read specific genres during different seasons?
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Celestial\ \ Steph\ \ • Jul 27
💭 do you read specific genres during different seasons?
💭 do you read specific genres during different seasons?
here with some banger summer horror book recs for you today!
📚 books mentioned: - Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle - Indian Burial Ground by Nick Medina - The Blonde Dies First by Joelle Wellington
thank you to Berkley Books and Simon Teen for the gifted copies!
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which one convinced you the most? 😖
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thank you to Tor Nightfire, HarperVoyager, Viking Books, William Morrow, Saga Press, and Berkley Books for the gifted copies!
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