Are The Friday The 13th Novels Canon With The Movie Series?
There are plenty of Friday The 13th novels floating around, but are they canon with the movie franchise? John Carpenter's Halloween arrived in 1978 and helped set a template for the slasher genre. The original Friday The 13th was one of the first movies to copy its blueprint while upping the gore. It was a surprise smash and kicked off a long-running horror franchise. Like Michael Myers before him, Friday The 13th's Jason Voorhees soon became a horror icon
There was an avenge of one Friday The 13th movie a year during the 1980s, but by the time of 1989's Jason Takes Manhattan, the formula was getting very creaky. Jason returned sporadically in the years that followed, including 1993's Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday and the long-awaited crossover Freddy Vs Jason. There are currently twelve Friday The 13th movies, but a messy legal battle over the rights to the series has seen it stalled indefinitely.
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A franchise as successful as Friday The 13th is sure to have many offshoots, and Jason has appeared in various comics and video games over the years. Even devotees may not realize there are around 20 Friday The 13th novels in existence. This includes novelizations of various entries, with Friday The 13th Part 3 — quite bizarrely — having been adapted twice. Among the Friday The 13th novels are a series of young adult books dubbed the Camp Crystal Lake Series and a whole Jason X saga. The question is, are any of these books canon?
That comes down to individual readers, as there's nothing in the Friday The 13th novels that really conflicts with anything in the movies. The Camp Crystal Lake Series, for instance, is set after the events of Jason
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