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How to Survive Camping: The Man With No Shadow — Content Guide for Parents

By Bonnie QuinnSimon and SchusterISBN 9781668096499320 pages
How to Survive Camping: The Man With No Shadow

Found in this book

  • ViolenceCentral
  • Scary contentCentral
  • ProfanityBrief

Not found

  • Religion
  • Race & culture
  • Climate
  • Sexual content
  • Gender roles
  • Gender & orientation

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Contains references to prayer and church attendance. A minister character plays a supporting role in two chapters.

About this book

A campy, cozy horror novel about a manager of a haunted campground just trying to get through the season, perfect for fans of Grady Hendrix, Rachel Harrison, and Welcome to Night Vale.

I am a campground manager. I don’t have a list of rules because I’m trying to ruin your fun…I’m trying to keep you from doing small, simple things that could result in your horrific and most agonizing demise.

Goat Valley Campground has killed generations of Kate’s family. The land is old, passed down through generations, but the campground’s reputation doesn’t just draw campers year after year. Creatures from folklore and horror have made Goat Valley not just their home, but their hunting ground.

As campground manager, Kate has rules to protect her campers—if the man with the skull cup offers you a drink, accept it or you will die a gruesome death; don’t buy ice from the children with no wagon; and of course, never ever follow the lights. Still, not every camper follows the rules…which means not every camper survives their stay.

Soon decapitated and exsanguinated campers are the least of Kate’s worries; one of the most dangerous inhabitants of the campground is determined to claim the land for himself. Meanwhile, something in the land is shifting, the tides are turning, and the curse that hunts members of her bloodline begins to close in…

Frequently asked questions

  • Is How to Survive Camping: The Man With No Shadow appropriate for a 7-year-old?

    Monsters kill campers by decapitation and bloodshed, the narrator is described as willing to commit murder for the camp, and a mob of townspeople is out for her blood. This is a horror novel with folklore monsters, gruesome deaths, gore, and harm to children and animals, though it is told with dark humor.

  • Does How to Survive Camping: The Man With No Shadow have violence?

    Found (Central): Monsters kill campers by decapitation and bloodshed, the narrator is described as willing to commit murder for the camp, and a mob of townspeople is out for her blood.

  • Does How to Survive Camping: The Man With No Shadow have scary content?

    Found (Central): This is a horror novel with folklore monsters, gruesome deaths, gore, and harm to children and animals, though it is told with dark humor.

  • Does How to Survive Camping: The Man With No Shadow have religion?

    Not found in the sources we checked.

  • Does How to Survive Camping: The Man With No Shadow have race & culture?

    Not found in the sources we checked.

  • Does How to Survive Camping: The Man With No Shadow have profanity?

    Found (Brief): A review quotes Kate using a swear word, and a reader's content note lists language.

  • Does How to Survive Camping: The Man With No Shadow have climate?

    Not found in the sources we checked.

  • Does How to Survive Camping: The Man With No Shadow have sexual content?

    Not found in the sources we checked.

  • Does How to Survive Camping: The Man With No Shadow have gender roles?

    Not found in the sources we checked.

  • Does How to Survive Camping: The Man With No Shadow have gender & orientation?

    Not found in the sources we checked.