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Slasher Summer
  • Published: 18 June 2026
  • ISBN: 9781405991186
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $28.00

Slasher Summer

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Hardback
15 Sept 2026
EBook
18 June 2026
Audiobook
18 June 2026
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Paying homage to all horror movie lovers, Slasher Summer is a spine-tingling horror about a group of friends who are hunted to death in the eerie town of Cedar Lake Falls . . .

Back in high school, seven unlikely students were drawn together over one shared love: all things horror.

Years later they come back to their hometown of Cedar Lake Falls to reunite. The town happens to be the setting of a cult classic 80's slasher film and so what better place to stay than in the very lodge the movie was filmed in.

But then ominous figures are spotted across the lake, members of the group are pulled underwater and a masked killer is unleashed.

Suddenly they realise they're in the same kind of horror they love to watch, only it's not so fun being on the other side…
  • Published: 18 June 2026
  • ISBN: 9781405991186
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $28.00
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About the author

E.L Chen

E. L. Chen is the author of Sweetside Motel and One of Us Is Already Dead. Her YA fantasy Summerwood/Winterwood was longlisted for the Sunburst and recommended as a Best Book for Kids and Teens by the Canadian Children’s Book Centre, and her short fiction has appeared in venues such as Strange Horizons, On Spec, and The Dark. She lives in Toronto, Canada with her son and a towering TBR pile.
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Praise for Slasher Summer

A sharp and disturbing homage to the slasher tradition, reimagined with contemporary teeth

Daphne Fama, author of House of Monstrous Women

A sharp and disturbing homage to the slasher tradition, reimagined with contemporary teeth. SLASHER SUMMER will stay with you long after the blood dries...

Daphne Fama, author of House of Monstrous Women

SLASHER SUMMER is a masterful tribute to the genre—weaving together hilarity and vicious murders before twisting the lovable formula on its head. Chen’s respect and love for the familiar tropes go much deeper than blood and gore. You could not ask for a better time. This is truly a slasher story after my own heart.

Vincent Tirado

E.L. Chen had me in my nostalgia feels with her latest, Slasher Summer. The characters lift off the page, each one somehow worth rooting for and against, as they navigate the picturesque setting for a classically gory slasher. The paranoia is high, the gore is abundant, and the twists are neck-breaking. It's everything a Scream fan could dream of, and also makes me think of the mystery gang in Scooby Doo, but with much higher stakes, deeper connections, and instead of a talking dog, you have....well, Freddy.

Mallory Arnold, bestselling author of HOW TO SURVIVE A HORROR STORY