Everyone at Pritchett High wants an invitation to the Senior Scavenge. In 2020, Violet Warren and her friends are the lucky ones. Eight girls will break into the Poison Apple Carnival after hours for a scavenger hunt, then at sunrise they’ll gather for a celebration in honor of their upcoming senior year. But someone else has another game planned. Minutes after the girls sneak into the carnival, a madman in a rubber mask begins slashing his way through the group and Violet quickly realizes his motives are personal. As she watches her friends die in a series of increasingly bizarre attacks, she must fight to survive while trying to answer the question: What could she have done to earn a fast-pass for a roller coaster ride straight to hell?

You can’t run. You can’t hide. There’s no escape. Seventeen-year-old Danny Hartford thinks his life is over when his girlfriend, Stacy, tells him she’s pregnant. Before either can grasp that they’ll be teenage parents, they’re thrown another curve ball. While the young couple work the night shift at The Lone Star Land Amusement Park, a huge explosion at a nearby construction site knocks out the power to the area, trapping them at separate rides. Then the real terror begins. The blast unleashes a horde of mutated creatures that quickly overrun the park, slaughtering and devouring all in their path. With no help in sight and another wave of bloodthirsty monstrosities on the way, time is running out. To reunite with Stacy, Danny and a small band of survivors must cross the treacherous fairgrounds where ravenous, multi-legged beasts lurk in the darkness. Only hours earlier, Danny dreaded what was in store for his future. Now, he’s locked in a primal battle to keep it alive. And as the night grows darker, the group quickly becomes… the park’s main attraction.

Since the 1970s, FantasticLand has been the theme park where “Fun is Guaranteed!” But when a hurricane ravages the Florida coast and isolates the park, the employees find it anything but fun. Five weeks later, the authorities who rescue the survivors encounter a scene of horror. Photos soon emerge online of heads on spikes outside of rides and viscera and human bones littering the gift shops, breaking records for hits, views, likes, clicks, and shares. How could a group of survivors, mostly teenagers, commit such terrible acts?Presented as a fact-finding investigation and a series of first-person interviews, FantasticLand pieces together the grisly series of events. Park policy was that the mostly college-aged employees surrender their electronic devices to preserve the authenticity of the FantasticLand experience. Cut off from the world and left on their own, the teenagers soon form rival tribes who viciously compete for food, medicine, social dominance, and even human flesh. This new social network divides the ravaged dreamland into territories ruled by the Pirates, the ShopGirls, the Freaks, and the Mole People. If meticulously curated online personas can replace private identities, what takes over when those constructs are lost? FantasticLand is a modern take on Lord of the Flies meets Battle Royale that probes the consequences of a social civilization built online.