Camp Ghoul Mountain Part VI by Jonathan Raab

And yet it must be something that happens, because by the time I’d finished Camp Ghoul Mountain Part VI: The Official Novelization it had become apparent that author Jonathan Raab had suffered greatly in producing this epic feat of Weird Horror. What exactly was that about the author’s sanity being reduced to a tattered remnants of its former self, as a result of writing the novelization? I don’t…I don’t remember reading about that in any of those articles, or social media posts from even the most jaded of authors.

Go back through those last few paragraphs. Why, there’s even the classic problem of the novelization not actually matching the final script that gets produced, and the two diverging on some very key points! All in all, it sounds like an incredibly stressful job to undertake, and certainly not something that I’d like to do. Interference from studio executives who want to make sure that the novel ‘gels’ exactly with what they want from the movie editors who are themselves come under pressure from those executives to get the product out within a very strict time-frame those time-frames shifting backwards and forwards due to reshoots, script changes or stars dropping out of filming and the damage to the author’s sanity when it becomes obvious that the ‘special effects’ were both special and absolutely not effects, and what happened on the screen actually happened in real life, blood and gore and screaming human sacrifices included. I’ve read a few articles about the process, and social media posts from authors who have been contracted to write them, and they’ve really laid out many of the difficulties and limitations, not to mention the often severe pressure that the author can come under. Movie novelizations must be one of the most difficult types of fiction to write, in my humble opinion as a book reviewer.

Camp Ghoul Mountain Part VI: The Official Novelization

Camp Ghoul Mountain Part VI by Jonathan Raab