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1''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7130563/1/Camp_Nightmare Camp Nightmare]]'' is a ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'' DarkFic by [=OnTheEdge7830=].
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3Calvin and Hobbes are sent to a day camp where everything is sickeningly sweet. Despite this, things go alright for them, right?
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5Wrong. ''Dead'' wrong, in fact.
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7After discovering the staff bathroom is filled with the partially-eaten corpses of children, the duo find themselves in a fight for their lives against the day camp staff, whose [[ImAHumanitarian practices]] and [[{{Cult}} origins]] grow increasingly sinister...
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9!!This fanfic provides examples of:
10* AuthorAppeal: The duo listen to Nickelback in the bathroom.
11* BigWhat: Calvin when he learns the news.
12* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler:Jerome's fate, thanks to the police.]]
13* {{Cult}}: The day camp is just one installment of one of these.
14* DisposingOfABody: Taken up to eleven - the staff bathroom has ''dozens'' of child corpses. [[{{Squick}} partially-eaten]] child corpses.
15* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler:The "day camp" is closed, Jerome [[BoomHeadshot taken care of]], the other clowns sentenced to life in prison, and Calvin and Hobbes, though a little shaken, remain unharmed.]]
16* {{Foreshadowing}}: Jerome's "JUST RIGHT!" line gives way at hints to his true colors.
17--> '''Hobbes:''' [[LampshadeHanging What did he mean by, "just right"?]]\
18'''Calvin:''' [[GenreBlind I dunno, probably just some weird adult lingo.]]
19** As is the fact that ''every one'' of the kids in the camp is six years old.
20* FromBadToWorse: Two of them.
21** Calvin finding bodies in the trash can shows how diabolical the camp truly is.
22** The revelation that the camp is a ''very'' widespread {{cult}}.
23* GodwinsLaw: InUniverse - Calvin compares the camp to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auschwitz_concentration_camp Auschwitz.]] Ironic, given that the camp is on ''par'' with that place...
24* HighPressureEmotion: Calvin, shortly before belting out a BigWhat.
25* ImAHumanitarian: The counselors ''eat'' little kids.
26* IncomingHam: Jerome's first words in the fic.
27--> "Oh, WONDERFUL! He's six, right? That's the age limit! In other words, [[{{Foreshadowing}} JUST RIGHT!]] I assure you, ma'am, your son will have a DEE-LIGHTFUL time here!"
28* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident:
29--> '''Jackie:''' Absolutely. We "accidentally" burn down the building, tell everyone we couldn't get the kids out in time, and we look injured, so everyone knows the building collapsed.
30* MonsterClown: The counselors.
31* NonIndicativeName: Hugs and Snuggles Day Camp is ''far'' from what the name suggests.
32* OffWithHisHead: Jerome tries to do this to Calvin with a hatchet.
33* PoliceAreUseless: [[spoiler: Thankfully subverted. Calvin attempts to get a police officer to believe him, and he doesn't until Jerome comes crashing through with his hatchet, at which point he gets [[BoomHeadshot a shot to the skull.]]]]
34* RoomFullOfCrazy: The basement of the camp is covered with the cult's symbol.
35* SayMyName: Calvin's mom does this when telling him the news.
36* SummerCampy: Hugs and Snuggles Day Camp. [[spoiler:It doesn't turn out well.]]
37* VomitIndiscretionShot: Hobbes upchucks after discovering the bodies.
38* WhamLine: The end of Chapter 2, revealing the DarkFic nature of the story.
39--> "Cool!" Calvin said. "But what's down there? It's so dark, I can't see anything. Hey! Cats have night vision, right? Use that!"\
40"Fine," Hobbes said. He looked down, then doubled over and [[VomitIndiscretionShot threw up.]]\
41"What? What is it?" Calvin asked frantically.\
42"See for yourself," Hobbes moaned, clutching his chest.\
43Calvin grabbed a light bulb overtop a stall, extended it, and shone it inside the hole.\
44[[DisposingOfABody It was filled with bodies.]]
45** And then, shortly afterwards, in Chapter 3:
46--> "Good." Jerome. "Do we know the story?"\
47"Absolutely," Jackie said. [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident "We "accidentally" burn down the building, tell everyone we couldn't get the kids out in time, and we look injured, so everyone knows the building collapsed."]]\
48"Excellent!" Jerome said. [[ImAHumanitarian "I bet those kids will taste good, too."]]
49*** Then:
50--> "But what does the skull signal mean?" Calvin said.\
51"I'll tell you what it means, Calvin!" came a voice. The duo turned around. Jerome and his cohorts were standing behind them. "It's only the symbol of our {{cult}}. It has branches all over the world. We are only this town's branch."
52* WouldHurtAChild: The camp counselors ''[[ImAHumanitarian eat]]'' little kids.

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