The novel takes place the summer Jake turns 12. Percy isn’t Jake’s only tormentor, but he is the kid who is, perhaps because they were once friends, relentlessly cruel.
He lives with his parents, spends a lot of time with his mother’s brother, Uncle Calvin, and tries to stay out of the way of the town bully, Percy Elkins.
It’s a coming-of-age tale reminiscent of Stephen King – which is a compliment.
This book, The Saturday Night Ghost Club, is not icky at all. That book was super icky, but also really good. I have read Davidson’s horror novel The Troop, though, which he wrote using the pseudonym Nick Cutter. The ghosts haunting 1980s Niagara Falls (and man, did I love this novel’s setting – from the actual seedy city itself to the allusions to super specific Canadian touchstones like The Beachcombers) are personal.ĭavidson is probably best known for his 2013 Giller Prize nominated novel Cataract City, but I have never read that book. Is a note-perfect novel that poignantly examines the haunting mutability of memory and storytelling, as well as the experiences that form the people we become, and establishes Craig Davidson as a remarkable literary talent.The ghosts in Craig Davidson’s novel The Saturday Night Ghost Club are not literal ghosts. With the alternating warmth and sadness of the best coming-of-age stories, But as the summer goes on, what begins as a seemingly light-hearted project may ultimately uncover more than any of its members had imagined. The summer Jake turns twelve, he befriends a pair of siblings new to town, and so Calvin decides to initiate them all into the Saturday Night Ghost Club. Growing up in 1980s Niagara Falls - a seedy but magical, slightly haunted place - Jake Baker spends most of his time with his uncle Calvin, a kind but eccentric enthusiast of occult artifacts and conspiracy theories. Immensely enjoyable, piercingly clever, and satisfyingly soulful. An irresistible and bittersweet coming-of-age story in the vein ofĪbout a group of misfit kids who spend an unforgettable summer investigating local ghost stories and urban legendsĪ celebration of the secret lives of children, both their wonders and their horrors.
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