The Game at Carousel
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See moreIn a town where horror movie tropes come to life, Riley's only chance to survive is to play his role, in this spine-tingling LitRPG series.
DO YOU LIKE SCARY MOVIES?
When horror fanatic Riley Lawrence arrives in the eerie town of Carousel for a local festival, he expects awkward tourists and maybe a disappointing haunted house.
Instead, he and his friends are drafted into a deadly horror-movie game run by an all-knowing theatre system that assigns each player a trope-based role.
Riley gets the worst one.
FILM BUFF: Knows the killer's identity. Dies first anyway.
Now the group must survive slasher flicks, cursed creature features, and increasingly deranged nightmare scenarios by exploiting horror tropes like RPG abilities. But the deeper they get into the game, the clearer it becomes:
Carousel isn't testing whether they know horror movies.
It's testing whether they can survive one.
The Game at Carousel is the horror LitRPG you never knew you needed - perfect for fans of Dungeon Crawler Carl, Scream, and meta-horror with sharp humour, brutal deaths and characters who know exactly how doomed they are.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781911754534
Publisher: Bantam
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 15 October 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Bantam
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 40.0mm
Width: 156.0mm
Height: 240.0mm
Weight: 750g
Pages: 304
About the Author
Rob M. Lastrel is the author of the Game at Carousel series, originally released on Royal Road. Fascinated by the eerie and unknown, he writes weird, other-worldly escapism. When he isn't writing, Lastrel spends his time hiking and hopes to one day visit every national park in the United States.
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