Friday the 13th: Carnival of Maniacs

Friday the 13th: Carnival of Maniacs
AuthorStephen Hand
LanguageEnglish
SeriesFriday the 13th
Release number
5
GenreHorror
PublisherBlack Flame
Publication date
6 June 2006
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint (Paperback)
Pages414
ISBN9781844163809
OCLC220038585
Preceded byFriday the 13th: The Jason Strain 

Friday the 13th: Carnival of Maniacs is a 2006 British horror novel written by Stephen Hand and published by Black Flame.[1][2] A tie-in to the Friday the 13th series of American horror films, it is the fifth and final installment in a series of five Friday the 13th novels published by Black Flame and involves undead killer Jason Voorhees being found and placed on display as a sideshow attraction by Doktor Geistmann's Carnival of Terror.[3][4]

Plot

Undead killer Jason Voorhees, weakened after his battle with supernatural killer Freddy Krueger, falls into a coma and is found by the Grissoms, inbred cannibals who live in the backwoods of Jason's hunting ground, Crystal Lake. Elsewhere, a trio of teenage goths in search of Camp Crystal Lake stumble on to Jason's abandoned shack, which contains the head of Jason's mother, Pamela. Pamela's spirit possesses one of the teens, Gloria Sowici, and exposes the head to moonlight, rousing Jason. Jason slaughters the Grissoms and Glo's friends, Trick and Z-Moll, but falls comatose again when Glo passes out atop Pamela's head, shielding it from the moon, after she and Jason are accidentally hit by an RV belonging to Doktor Geistmann's Carnival of Terror. Jason is mistaken for dead by the carnival's owners, George Arthur Witney and his drunk and disgruntled daughter, Alice Jane Witney, who decide to make Jason the new star attraction of the Carnival of Terror. Glo's attempt to commit suicide to thwart Pamela fails, with Pamela taking permanent possession of Glo's body to go in search of Jason, whose condition will be cured if Pamela helps him commit murder on the upcoming Friday the 13th.

Also looking for Jason is Michelle Kyler, an FBI agent and paranormal investigator who believes her mother was murdered by Jason. Kyler, put on leave due to her unsanctioned solo takedown of a murderous Vodou cult, receives backing to search for Jason from Nathaniel Morgas, a multimillionaire obsessed with all things Voorhees. During Jason's premiere as the Carnival of Terror's newest star, Pamela wakes him up by exposing her head to moonlight, sparking a massacre in which dozens are killed, including George. After Jason murders Pamela, having failed to recognize her in Glo's body, he falls inert again and is put up for sale on the Internet by Alice. A bidding war erupts between Morgas and Ross Feratu, a shock rocker similarly obsessed with Jason. Ross wins the auction by hacking it and draws up plans to use Jason as a prop for a televised performance to be held on Friday the 13th. Kyler, having acquired Pamela's head, makes a deal with Pamela to find Jason before being betrayed by her partner Cory Tolleson, who takes her to Morgas.

As Morgas and Tolleson torture Kyler for information about the connection between Pamela's head and Jason, Tolleson, having partially overhead Kyler's conversation with Pamela, realizes the moon is the key; he exposes the head to moonlight, prompting Jason to wake up during Ross's Friday the 13th show and butcher everyone present, curing his condition and making it so he no longer needs the moonlight-derived power channeled into him by Pamela. After Pamela reveals Kyler's mother was murdered by the Grissoms, not Jason, the dying Kyler allows Pamela to possess her to kill Morgas and Tolleson. Jason and Pamela begin making their way back to Crystal Lake while Alice relaxes in the Caribbean with the millions she received from Ross.

Reception

Don D'Ammassa, in a review written for Science Fiction Chronicle, deemed Carnival of Maniacs a "not entirely serious extension of the series" that benefitted from "a wry sense of humor."[5] Rod Lott of Bookgasm felt the "crazy" novel was a "lovably over-the-top gorefest" that, despite not being scary, was ultimately "critic-proof, because it's intended only for F13 fans, and they're going to enjoy it."[6]

References

  1. ^ "Cult Fiction From BL Publishing: Eight Titles for June". icv2.com. ICv2. 9 January 2006. Retrieved 5 September 2024.
  2. ^ Stephen Jones (2007). The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 18. Constable & Robinson. Introduction: Horror in 2006. ISBN 9780786720491.
  3. ^ Marie Toft, ed. (2007). What Do I Read Next? 2007: A Readers Guide to Current Genre Fiction, Volume 1. Gale. p. 217. ISBN 9780787690250.
  4. ^ Gilliand, Blu (13 July 2018). "If Books Could Kill: Jason Voorhees in Print". cemeterydance.com. Cemetery Dance Publications. Retrieved 5 September 2024.
  5. ^ "Critical Mass by Don D'Ammassa". Science Fiction Chronicle. Vol. 1, no. 267. United States: Warren Lapine. August 2006. p. 32.
  6. ^ Lott, Rod (14 June 2006). "Friday the 13th: Carnival of Maniacs". bookgasm.com. Internet Archive. Archived from the original on 8 September 2019. Retrieved 5 September 2024.

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