Book cover for Vacations from Hell by Libba Bray, Cassandra Clare, Claudia Gray, Maureen Johnson and Sarah Mlynowski
2009 Released
288 Pages
3-4 Hours
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HarperCollinsISBN 9780061861697

Written by some of today’s most exciting teen authors, Vacations from Hell offers five unique takes on a universal experience—unforgettable trips that become teen horror stories.

This third Hell collection, a paranormal anthology, 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 witch 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.

What happens when the trip of a lifetime becomes a nightmare you can’t escape?

  • Vampires on Vacation: A cruise to nowhere turns deadly when the ship’s cutest passengers aren’t just looking for a hook-up—they’re searching for their next meal.
  • Summer Magic: For a young witch, falling for the cute guy at the beach is dangerous enough. But what happens when he’s under the spell of your worst enemy?
  • A Soul-Stealing Witch: A tropical paradise holds a dark secret in the form of a beautiful, ancient woman who feeds on the souls of the young to maintain her power.
  • A Demonic Pact: Backpacking through a remote Eastern European village with a bloody past reveals that some ancient rituals never truly die.
  • A Cursed History: A tale of paranormal madness passed down from the French Revolution turns a dream trip to France into a nightmare of betrayal between two sisters.

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.

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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.

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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.

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