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eBook Category: Humor/Horror
eBook Description: If you love kickass high school monster mayhem, then Grant-Williams High is the place to be. In this hilarious original adventure that started it all, freshman Jimmy Ross and his senior sister Emily, together with all of their friends, fight to survive finals--also known as Hell Week--since all the faculty and staff turn into monsters that week, literally. Armed with their wits, Supernatural Protection kits, and plain dumb luck, the students battle vampires, werewolves, and various ghouls--an army or evil under the command of the Principal who this year is none other than the Prince of Lies Himself. First in the "Grant-Williams High" comic horror adventure series of connected works. [Publisher Note: Also available in the anthology switch.blade: School's Out]

eBook Publisher: Fictionwise.com, Published: switch.blade: School's Out, ed. Amy Sterling Casil, 2002
Fictionwise Release Date: August 2003

22 Reader Ratings: Great Good OK Poor

Available eBook Formats [MultiFormat - What's this?]: Adobe Acrobat (PDF) [168 KB], eReader (PDB) [61 KB], Palm Doc (PDB) [50 KB], Rocket/REB1100 (RB) [46 KB], Microsoft Reader (LIT) [86 KB] - PocketPC 1.0+ Compatible, Franklin eBookMan (FUB) [115 KB], hiebook (KML) [123 KB], Sony Reader (LRF) [125 KB], iSilo (PDB) [41 KB], Mobipocket (PRC) [53 KB], Kindle Compatible (MOBI) [126 KB], OEBFF Format (IMP) [71 KB]
Words: 14372
Reading time: 41-57 min.
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"The middle stories of the collection are mostly on the lighter side, ranging from comic SF to mild horror, but the quality of their writing and editing is much more uneven. The strongest of this group is "Hell Week at Grant-Williams High," Vera Nazarian's version of finals week in a school where the teachers really live up to their reputations as monsters. Senior Emily gives frosh brother Jimmy a shakedown tour of Hell Week at their high school--a week where all the school's employees actually turn into monsters. This story feels like it was aimed more at a YA reading audience than an adult one, despite some of the vocabulary used, and adult readers may find this irritating. But give it a chance, it grows on you. Nazarian pays homage in dialogue, plot twists, and characterization to Joss Whedon's "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" TV series. There are funny moments here that may spark school memories in readers regardless of their age. The story's also sprinkled with other pop-culture icon references ("Angel," "Aliens"). Hindu religious beliefs play a pivotal role in the ending, where blood once again proves to be thicker than water--or Hell Week. Nazarian pays attention to details and it pays off in dialogue that fairly breathes current phrasing and slang. Readers put off by pop-culture references would do well to remember that media and culture feed each other, and snobbery is just so not cool."--J. G. Stinson, Strange Horizons

Emily and Jimmy Ross did not look forward to Monday of Finals week at Grant-Williams High. Emily was a senior and Jimmy a freshman, and Finals week was not called Hell Week for nothing by the terrified students. That's because during Hell Week not only were the exams hellish, but all of the faculty and staff turned into monsters.

Real monsters.

Grant-Williams High School was supposedly situated on top an old Native American burial ground, or maybe it was just a colonial graveyard, but tradition had it that the school was basically smack dab in the middle of a gateway to Hell.

Real Hell.

"Listen to me carefully, weenie," said Emily to Jimmy on Sunday night. "I am only going to say this once, and for your own good you'd better pay attention. I survived Hell Week at Grant Williams three times already, and I am a pro. So you listen to me, and you do exactly what I say."

"Yeah, right," said Jimmy. "What happens if I don't, crow-face?" Like he was going to believe this bull from his scrawny stuckup older sister. All the freshmen got a load of it from the upperclassmen for the duration of the final semester, over and over.

"What happens is, the monsters get your sorry ass, is what," said Emily. "And then you turn into a monster too, and you get to come back and teach here when you're old and grown up."

"No way!" said Jimmy.

"You just wait and see, maņana," said Emily.