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Prom Nights from Hell
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Prom Nights from Hell

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Five amazing authors.

Five unforgettable stories.

In this exciting collection of paranormal tales, best-selling authors Stephenie Meyer (Twilight), Kim Harrison (Once Dead, Twice Shy), Meg Cabot (How to Be Popular), Lauren Myracle (ttyl), and Michele Jaffe (Bad Kitty) take prom mishaps to a whole new level—a truly hellish level. Wardrobe malfunctions and two left feet don't hold a candle to discovering your date is the Grim Reaper—and he isn't here to tell you how hot you look.

From angels fighting demons to a twisted take on getting what you wish for, these five stories will entertain better than any DJ in a bad tux can. No corsage or limo rental necessary. Just good, creepy fun.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherHarperTeen
Release dateOct 13, 2009
ISBN9780061757013
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Rating: 3.3678010418848165 out of 5 stars
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  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    This is a book for a very specific public, which is why I enjoyed it better when I was 16; I read it recently for the old times but I found it repetitive. Nevertheless it was a light read and a good option if you're looking for short young adult stories.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Meg Cabot - The Exterminator's Daughter
    It's Meg Cabot so it's cute and quirky. It's "The Exterminator" which is kind of like The Slayer so that part is a tad bit lame. There's a girl dumb enough to want to be bitten, written in the way only Meg Cabot could. The story doesn't bring anything new to the genre but it's adorable and a quick read.

    Lauren Myracle - The Corsage
    Sad. Just so very sad. You really can't wish them back but someone always has to try. It's a good take on an old story, with a nice mixture of fear and sadness at the end.

    Kim Harrison - Madison Avery and the Dim Reaper
    I couldn't tell what Harrison was trying to do here. This story had the feel of being part of a larger universe, which made me wonder if she is planning something new or if it's just a case of bad writing. I thought from the title that it would be comedy, but it really wasn't. There was an overabundance of Reapers--White, Gray, Black--and it all seemed just too much for this one short story. Like I said, it felt like part of something larger. If I were to have read a book where Madison and Barnabas had an established relationship and universe, then went back and read this as an origin story I'd be pleased, but otherwise it really doesn't stand well on its own.

    Michele Jaffe - Kiss and Tell
    Chick with superpowers. Check. Cumean Sibyl to be. Check. Twists I didn't see coming. Check. I liked this. I'd be happy to read more in this universe, especially about Sibby.

    Stephenie Meyer - Hell on Earth
    Mother of god, this was terrible! So Sheba is a demon and Gabriel Michael Christensen (I know) is the offspring of a human and an angel and once a demon discovers love with an angel her internal flame goes out and she is trapped. Or something. It's possible this story ended abruptly because I have an electronic copy, it's also possible that's just how SMeyer ended it. If you read this book take my advice and close it before you get to this story. You'll thank me.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    luv it
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    I only read the Kim Harrison story. Madison Avery from her YA series, is going to the Prom. Her life is turned upside down when she discovers she is a pity date. The one that rides in to her rescue is not anything she can imagine.
    Fun, quick, a definite read for series fans.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Scary stories about prom night?!
    Completely amazing!
    Kind of special.
    Some stories about prom nights with vampires, supernatural creatures and determinated and special girls who are "exemples".
    Read it several times!!!
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    I probably could have taken a pass on this one. I enjoy YA, and fantasy, and short stories, but this collection fell flat. Each offering was very much a presentation by each author to draw the reader into a new series. I don't feel any urge to pick up the new full-length books.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    The Exterminator's Daughter was cool but I was kinda begging hoping for more.

    The Corsage freaked the hell out of me, especially that I was reading it at night. I was totally creeped out by the part wherein fresh-from-the-grave Will was trying to enter Frankie's house.

    Madison Avery and the Dim Reaper was kinda okay, but it was the one I liked the least.

    Kiss and Tell was also cool. I totally loved Miranda being some kind of a teen Wonder Woman. Not only was she a kick-ass babe but also a smart one.

    Hell on Earth was the best. It was kinda cliche, a demon falling for an angel blah blah. Except that the guy in the story was not a full angel but just an offspring of one. But still, it was a good read.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I bought this book in a bookstore in the Chicago International Airport. Throughout the flight, this book kept me enthralled with its amazing short-stories by well known authors.
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    I bought this to read the Stephenie Meyer story. It was not up to the standards set by her previous books. The Kim Harrison story was okay but not as good as her "grown-up" books. I didn't read the other stories.
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    I didn't get anything out of reading the short stories and found all of them very predictable. It was more bland to read than it was interesting.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    This is a very good book of five short stories all of prom nights. Each on is very different and told from different angles.
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    Really only liked the Jaffe story "Kiss and Tell". The rest were pretty predictable.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Meg Cabot opens this anthology with The Exterminators Daughter. A girl has to deal with a vampire that her best friend has fallen for. Along the way she finds a friend.Next up is The Corsage by Lauren Myracle, a creepy story of wishes and growing upKim Harrison contributes Madison Avery and the Dim Reaper, a fancy dress prom and a girl who finds out about what reapers do.Kiss and tell by Michele Jaffe - Miranda finds out that superpowers can be both good and bad.Hell on Earth by Stephenie Meyer finishes the book, a story of redemption and half-angels.Overall nothing spectacular but not a bad collection, not sorry I read them but also not rushing out to buy it to add to my personal collection.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    These five stories are full of surprises. But are they good or bad? That's for you decide.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    This collection was definitely written for the teenage crowd. There was very little depth to the stories. The stories were not very long and seemed to lack something. It was an okay book but more background was needed to fully enjoy the story.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Each story tells a different ‘scary’ prom night story. Vampires, a Monkey’s Paw tribute, grim reapers, prophets & superheroes and demon vs. angels sum ‘em up. I enjoyed Jaffe’s the most – funny and interesting without being sappy and/or treacly…
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    When I saw which authors were in this book I could not resist picking it up. Two of the stories lived up to my expectations and two did not. I found Myracle's and Jaffe's stories to be a little predictable and not very engaging. Cabot's story was pretty good and I did enjoy Harrison's and Meyer's stories and hope to read more. I heard that Harrison's book Once Dead, Twice Shy expands on this short story so I cannot wait to pick that up and see what happens to Madison. I am hoping at some point Meyer will also write a book that expands on her short story. Over all this was a quick read and if you are short on time I would recommend just skipping to Harrison's and Meyer's stories.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Prom Nights From Hell is a collection of supernatural prom stories written by some of the most amazing authors ever. Meg Cabot, Stephenie Meyer, Kim Harrison, and Lauren Myracle came together to write some of the best stories I’ve ever read. The only thing I didn’t like was I wanted some of those short stories to continue!
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Loved these stories, every single one of them. I picked it up because Kim Harrison had a story in it, and found myself completely engrossed in all of the tales.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Five of your favorite teen authors have teamed up to produce a set of short stories about proms gone supernaturally, horribly wrong. While you're concerned about shoes matching your purse, the girls in these stories are worried about crossbows and vampires, zombie dates who've been dead for weeks, and a devil in a red dress who causes chaos by snapping high heels and breaking up couples. This was a funny collection of stories. I liked it.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    An awesome collection of short stories from a wealth of popular authors, Prom Nights from Hell takes the proverbial “best night of your life” in high school and turns it into a batch of… well… Hell. Meg Cabot gives us Mary, the vampire hunter who makes Buffy look like Barbie and she is hunting, get this, Dracula’s son! Stephanie Meyer (yes the Stephanie Meyer) gives us a battle of good and evil between Gabe (a play on the angel Gabriel, maybe?) and Sheba, who gets pleasure in causing pain. Kim Harrison shows us Madison and her fateful drive him from the prom after being rude to her date. Lauren Myracle gives us the incredibly creepy voodoo tale and gives chills to the age-old adage of “be careful what you wish for.” Finally, Michelle Jaffe provides the complicated and super violent super hero tale, with Miranda Kiss kicking butt and taking names the whole way through. Here my bloodlust was satisfied where Twilight left me high and dry. Yes, Stephanie Meyer still has her dreamy and ethereal male protagonist, but what a nice little good versus evil story, without all the unnecessary swooning. Myracle and Cabot step out of their traditional roles, and do quite the job of it. Myracle came a long way from her TTFN, TTYL, and L8R G8R books, though after Prom Nights, she expanded her horror span with Bliss, which I haven’t yet read. And Meg Cabot really came a long way from her fun female fluff books mostly about girls coming of age in interesting circumstances. This was the first time encountering Michelle Jaffe’s writing but there wasn’t a story in here I didn’t like and hers was no exception.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    I picked up this collection of prom-based horror stories because it contains a story by Kim Harrison, whose Hollows series I particularly enjoy. This collection is entertaining, if not particularly great, although I was disappointed with the Kim Harrison story, which seems to end abruptly mid-plot. In general, the other stories were more fun than I thought they would be, and the last story in the collection was particularly interesting. A good Halloween-season read.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    5 short stories by some of my favorite YA authors...Meg Cabot, Stephenie Myers, Lauren Myracle...and then two others I hadn't heard of but enjoyed: Kim Harrison and Michele Jaffe. All the stories were great, but I think I enjoyed Stephenie Myers' story best: Hell on Earth, which is about a demon who is trying to destroy a prom by manipulating people through mind control. She's ultimately thwarted by a nice boy at prom with special powers of his own... very fun book.
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    What a terrible book! I love girly stories that involve things like prom and I love horror/supernatural stories... but this book was just bad. Most of the stories read like the first chapter or two of a book that they just didn't bother to end. Truly awful. This book really wasn't worth the time.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    A group of teen chick lit’s greatest writers come together for this altogether unique and interesting collection of short stories—not about perfect, normal proms, oh no, but ones that have been interrupted by, shall we say, the paranormal.A vampire exterminator rushes to save her friend from her enemy’s evil clutches. A magic corsage delivers wishes gone wrong to a group of friends. A girl is killed by the grim reaper at her prom, which also happens to be her seventeenth birthday. Two very special girls with clashing personalities must stick together to outwit the people who are after them. And angels and demons show up at one school’s prom.The five stories in this collection delight fans of books such as TWILIGHT—whose author, by the way, is one of the contributors to this short story collection. All the stories are interesting, amusing, and leave you wanting more.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    If you like your YA books with a bit of the dark side thrown in, look no further. These very different stories all have one thing in common, the Prom never goes quite as planned and the good guys have to work to win. ;)
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    This one is a fun collection of not so normal prom nights. It includes everything from vampires to demons and more!
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Meg Cabot and Michele Jaffe offer stories fairly derivative of BtVS, but they're fun. I really enjoyed Lauren Myracle's "The Corsage," a surprisingly good twist on "The Monkey's Paw."
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    In this anthology each story dishes up a different tale of prom night terror. In Meg Cabot's short story a vampire huntress bent on vengeance against Dracula himself is surprised to find help from someone she didn't expect. Lauren Myracle's truly frightening tale reinforces the saying, "Watch out what you wish for" when a teen wishes for that special someone to ask her out. Kim Harrison's snotty heroine discovers death isn't at all what she thought it would be and Michelle Jaffee's super heroine discovers her true destiny when she teams up with a precocious mad about the boys prophet. In the last short, a demon on a quest meets her match in Stephenie Meyer's tale of prom night chaos.I really did enjoy all five of these stories, although all but one ended in rather a cliffhangerish way leaving me to wonder if we will ever get to read an ending to these beginnings, perhaps in a Prom Nights from Hell Part Deux? I will say that Lauren Myracle's story (the only non-cliffhanger) probably scared me more than anything I've read in years. All in all for their length I think these stories were all well written and would suggest them to any fans of young adult horror or urban fantasy.