SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 ROGERS WRITERS' TRUST FICTION PRIZE
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD

"Balancing a fine line between childhood wonder and adult understanding . . . the stage is set for both adolescent thrills and a slow-developing sense of what it means to be truly haunted. Viscerally exciting and deeply thoughtful, The Saturday Night Ghost Club is powerfully written and satisfies at every level."
—2018 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize Jury

“A coming-of-age novel, marking the time when you realize there’s more going on in life than meets the eye. In Saturday Night, ghost stories are used to explore how resilient we are, how our mind helps us to survive, and how, sometimes, our memories help us take the horrible things that happen to us and weave them into a life that still has hope. It’s an examination, like most good literature is, of how we live our lives.”
—Toronto Star

“A nostalgia-driven coming-of-age thriller in the vein of Netflix’s hit series Stranger Things and golden-age 1980s Stephen King. Davidson writes so convincingly from a twelve-year-old boy’s perspective—vividly capturing those first pangs of love and the torture of being bullied—that it takes the puzzle of unravelling Uncle C’s troubled mind and the scalpel-sharp sections in which adult Jake describes his work as a brain surgeon to remind readers that this is, in fact, a book about the disquieting nature of memory and the stealthy ways the past can haunt someone. For sheer storytelling prowess, and the chops to scare readers screwy with monsters both real and of our own imagining, the label of Canada’s Stephen King . . . belongs to Craig Davidson, claws down.”
—Quill & Quire

“Davidson makes beautifully clear how the ghoulish tales we feared when we were young can’t compare to the blood-bathed teeth we eventually encounter as adults. The Saturday Night Ghost Club is a tale for those who like their Stranger Things spiked, Stand By Me charred, and who are battered enough yet still brave enough to revisit that moment when made-up horrors finally come to root in a world beyond invention. A novel that both stabs and breaks your heart.”
—Mark Z. Danielewski, bestselling author of House of Leaves

“A moving, delightful, thrillingly unexpected coming-of-age story about the irresistible collision of childhood’s dark wonders and adulthood’s haunting mysteries.”
—Elan Mastai, author of All Our Wrong Todays

"Not only creepy and chills-down-your-spine fun, it's also incredibly poignant and heartwarming. This is a tender coming-of-age story that isn't afraid to face the darkness in the world or meditate on the power of memory and the mysteries of the human brain. Craig Davidson is such a nimble storyteller and [this] novel is proof of his remarkable gift."
—Edan Lepucki, New York Times bestselling author of California and Woman No. 17

"Complex, startling . . . wonderful."
—The Sun Times (Owen Sound)

Praise for Craig Davidson:

“Craig Davidson is one of this country’s great kinetic writers.”
—Steven Beattie, The Globe and Mail

“Davidson’s remarkable storytelling gifts are several . . . [He] possesses a stealthy capacity for pace and plot exercised in a cinematic array of places . . . Superb, thoughtful and thoroughly entertaining. Davidson is a seriously talented writer.”
—Noah Richler, National Post

“Davidson balances his headlong plotting with fresh, poetic language . . . bracing and poignant.”
—Maclean’s

“I can’t think of another prose stylist out there as visceral and kinetic as Davidson . . . Utterly compelling.”
—The Independent