Vacations from Hell

Name: Vacations from Hell
Brand: Harper Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Libba Bray
ISBN: 9780062131768

Author: Libba Bray, Cassandra Clare, Claudia Gray, Maureen Johnson, Sarah Mlynowski

Narrator: Tara Sands

Unabridged: 6 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 12/14/2011

Categories: Young Adult Fiction, Paranormal, Occult & Supernatural, Horror, Short Stories, Collections & Anthologies

Synopsis

Written by some of today’s most exciting teen authors, Vacations from Hell offers five unique takes on a universal experience—unforgettable trips.This third Hell collection features stories of vacations that take a serious turn for the worse when paranormal elements interfere.Claudia Gray’s teen witch falls for the wrong guy on her family’s yearly beach trip, Cassandra Clare’s heroine confronts a vengeful and powerful woman while taking in the Jamaican sun.The cruise ship in Sarah Mlynowski’s story carries some dead, soon-to-be-dead, and even some un-dead passengers aboard.Libba Bray takes us to a town in Eastern Europe with a dark and bloody past.And a paranoid madness born in the French Revolution reaches across time to turn sister against sister in Maureen Johnson’s tale.

About Libba Bray

Libba Bray is the New York Times bestselling author of A Great and Terrible Beauty and Rebel Angels, both of which have appeared on ALA's Best Books for Young Adults list.

About Cassandra Clare

Cassandra Clare is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of City of Bones, City of Ashes, and City of Glass. City of Bones was a Locus Award finalist for Best First Novel and an ALA Teens' Top Ten winner. She is also the author of the upcoming YA fantasy trilogy The Infernal Devices. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her boyfriend and two cats.

About Claudia Gray

Claudia Gray is the pseudonym of New Orleans-based writer Amy Vincent, the author of the New York Times bestselling Evernight series. She has worked as a lawyer, a journalist, a disc jockey, and an extremely poor waitress. Her grandparents' copy of Mysteries of the Unexplained is probably the genesis of her fascination with most things mysterious and/or inexplicable.

About Maureen Johnson

Maureen Johnson is the bestselling author of several novels, including 13 Little Blue Envelopes, the Truly Devious series, the Suite Scarlett series, and the Shades of London series. She has also written collaborative works such as Let It Snow with John Green and Lauren Myracle and the Bane Chronicles with Cassandra Clare and Sarah Rees Brennan. Maureen lives in New York and online on Twitter @maureenjohnson or at maureenjohnsonbooks.com.

About Sarah Mlynowski

Sarah Mlynowski is the bestselling author of Ten Things We Did (and Probably Shouldn’t Have); I See London, I See France; Don’t Even Think About It; Think Twice; Milkrun; Fishbowl; Bras & Broomsticks; the Whatever After series; and more. Her books have been translated into twenty-nine languages and optioned to Hollywood. Sarah was born in Montreal but now lives and writes in New York City. Visit her at www.sarahm.com and find her everywhere @sarahmlynowski.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Marina on June 01, 2012

This was an enjoyable and easy reading. I think my review is gonna be more serious than the stories themselves, but here I go anyway: Cruisin': The worst story in the book. It seems to be written by a YA instead of being addressed to them. The main character was flat and prepubertal, except for the "......more

Goodreads review by Leah on August 02, 2023

Average rating: 3/5 🌟 A solid anthology if you are into ya horror in the vein of House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland. Not a single short story was bad! Unfortunately, there also was not a single story that I outright loved, but the setting and the concept were always very intriguing and unique. Cr......more

Goodreads review by Wendy Darling on September 06, 2016

3.5 stars "The Law of Suspects" by Maureen Johnson - 4 stars To my great surprise, this was my favorite of the short stories. I've always liked stories where people are trapped in a place with a crazy person a la The Shining, and this one was a great YA horror version. It captured the feeling of inte......more

Goodreads review by E.J. on July 17, 2010

Paranormal vacation stories that range from amusing to terrifying. Vacations from Hell is bound to leave you giggling one minute and give you goosebumps the next. Vacations from Hell is a collection of short stories by five talented paranormal authors. Whether you are in the mood for a cute YA vampi......more

Goodreads review by Emily ~ breatheeasybooks on November 28, 2020

"You know that prickly feeling you get on the back of your neck? The one that makes you scared to turn around? Pay attention to that, Holmes. That is a Me-No-Likee signal creeping up from the lizard part of your brain—some primal DEFCON center of your gray matter left over from the very first anc......more