They came to pray the gay away. Camp Titus had other plans.
Nolan Kestler was supposed to spend the summer getting “restored” at Camp Titus, a remote Arkansas conversion camp where phones are confiscated, eye contact is suspicious, and the buddy system is less about safety than surveillance.
Nolan knows a horror movie setup when he sees one. The locked gate. The prayer trail. The isolation cabin. The staff who smile too much. The chapel cross watching from every corner of the compound. But even his film-school brain isn’t ready for the truth buried beneath Camp Titus’s holy routine: campers have died here before, and every “accident” leaves behind the same quiet signature.
- A cheap plastic cross.
- A missing piece of the story.
- A file no one was supposed to find.
When another camper turns up dead, Nolan joins forces with the only people paying attention: Marcy, a court reporter’s daughter keeping the record; Branko, a gentle giant with more courage than words; Liora, who sees every exit before anyone else sees the room; and Callum Reyes, the infuriatingly gorgeous boy who keeps warning Nolan not to trust anyone.
Together, they have one night to expose what Camp Titus has been doing for years-before the vans arrive, the evidence disappears, and the next name on the prayer trail becomes theirs.
Funny, furious, romantic, and blood-soaked, Camp, Pray, Slay is a queer horror-comedy slasher about survival, chosen family, and what happens when the kids the world tried to bury decide to fight back.
Potential reader trigger/content warnings:
Major content warnings: conversion therapy, religious trauma, homophobia, transphobia, queerphobic slurs, forced religious programming, psychological abuse, institutional abuse, murder, serial killings, strangulation, drowning, grief, death of queer characters, references to prior camper deaths, body discovery, blood/gore, confinement/isolation, gaslighting, victim blaming, family rejection, coercive parental control, outing/identity policing, and trauma/PTSD.
Additional possible warnings: sexual content, sexual humor, blasphemous/religious satire, discussion of suicide or suicidal despair if present in final copy, alcohol use, and violence involving young adults.
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