Everybody Scream Horror Book Club: Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle

Grab your emotional support bookmark, your coping mechanism of choice, and maybe a flashlight, because June’s Everybody Scream Horror Book Club is packing its bags for Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle — and besties, this is not the summer camp with friendship bracelets and questionable bug juice.

Welcome to Neverton, Montana: a God-fearing little community with a shiny smile, a heart of gold, and a secret so horrifying it deserves its own dramatic thunderclap.

Tucked high in the mountains is Camp Damascus, the so-called “most effective” gay conversion camp in the country. They promise a life free from sin.

Cute. Suspicious. Absolutely cursed.

Because the truth behind their success? Not holy. Not even a little bit.

This book is sharp, unsettling, deeply earnest horror about the demons the queer community faces in America, the cost of keeping secrets, the terror of being told who you’re allowed to be, and the kind of courage it takes to look at the whole rotten system and say, “Actually? Burn it down.”

Join us for a discussion led by Markie Spears Hebert as we talk fear, faith, identity, survival, religious trauma, queer rage, and why sometimes the scariest monsters are the ones smiling from the pews.

Come ready to scream, spiral, and discuss.

Content notes may include conversion therapy, religious trauma, homophobia, body horror, and psychological horror.