Haunted Library - Friday the 13th

Did you know there were a series of Friday the 13th novels? I'm not talking about movie novelizations but brand new stories. You did? Did you know there were three different series of books? I'm not the biggest F13 fan so this was news to me.

The series featured today is the Camp Crystal Lake series from the 1990s. Similar to Freddy's Tales of Terror, I imagine this series was capitalizing on the popularity of the Fear Street and Christopher Pike books. From the cover synopsis, it seems like a different person is possessed by the hockey mask in each book.

 

 Once there was a boy named Jason Voorhees who drowned at a summer camp when the counselors weren't watching. First, his mother got revenge. Then, Jason rose from the grave. And now, everyone knows you can't kill a legend... but a legend can kill you.

Seventeen years after the fourth book ended the series, author William Pattison (aka Eric Morse) released a sequel of sorts on his website for free. This book crosses over the legacy of Jason's mask with the Friday the 13th TV series!

I'm pretty excited to dig into this one! Where most F13 fans were disappointed by the TV series having nothing to do with the movies, I loved it! This just makes so much sense as the show had the characters hunting down cursed objects. You can click the cover to grab this one.

Clicking your Haunted Library card will allow you to check out the original four novels. They are being offered here because they do not appear to be commercially available. You can also borrow, or read online, at the Internet Archive.

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