Narratively

A detective and a nurse with a lifelong love of the morbid recruit a roster of macabre-loving misfits, and turn a bucolic patch of the Hudson Valley into a 65-acre hotbed of horror.

For one week each year, Cooper’s Lake Campground transforms into a Tolkien-esque fantasyland custom-built to host the largest foam-fighting event in the world.

In a subculture rife with misogyny and homophobia, a few enterprising players are building a movement around the intersection of gamer culture and LGBTQ pride.