Camp Murderface Books in Order

The Camp Murderface books are spooky, funny middle grade horror stories set at Camp Sweetwater, a summer camp in Ohio with a bad history and even worse timing. The series opens in 1983, when the camp is finally reopening after being shut down for decades. That should be good news for campers Corryn Quinn and Tez Jones. Instead, it turns out Sweetwater's past is still very much alive.

This is campfire horror with a grin.

The first book, Camp Murderface, leans into the classic pleasures of summer camp fiction, cabins, counselors, campfires, and kids hoping for adventure, then twists them into something much stranger. Corryn and Tez arrive ready to escape their regular lives for a while, but the weirdness starts almost immediately. Strange happenings pile up, the adults prove less useful than anyone would like, and the camp's long-ago shutdown starts to look less mysterious and more like a warning nobody listened to.

By Doom in the Deep, the danger has moved from rumor to full-blown monster trouble. The creatures beneath the lake, called the Vampire Devils, have awakened, counselors start disappearing, and the official line from the grown-ups is still basically that everything is fine. That gap between what the kids know and what the adults refuse to admit gives the series a lot of its energy. Corryn, Tez, and the other campers have to investigate, improvise, and keep one another alive.

Setting matters here. Camp Sweetwater is not just a backdrop, it is the whole machine that makes the story run. The cabins, woods, lake, and half-buried camp legends give the books their shape, and the 1980s setting adds an old-school horror feel without making things too grim. These stories like big scares, but they also like jokes, gross bits, and the kind of wild plotting that feels perfect for telling under a flashlight after lights-out.

Nothing at Sweetwater stays buried for long.

If you pick up this series, expect fast pacing, creepy reveals, and heroes who are young enough to be underestimated but stubborn enough to keep going. It is a good fit for readers who want monsters, mystery, and a little chaos, not bleakness. Reading in order works best, because the second book builds directly on what the campers uncover in the first.