The School

Rating:
Summary: BMI strikes again
Review: Hoo! Bad. I mean, real bad. But bad in a funny way. BMI specializes in horror novels that are bad in a funny way, I think. And they've published some real wangers, but this one may take the cake.

In 1931, a student at a new and exclusive Massachusetts girls' school is possessed by some kind of demonic entity (what, exactly, is never specified) and murders the headmaster, whom she has a crush on, and the two students she discovers him with. Fifty years later, the school (which IS the demonic entity... but we're still not sure what, why, or how) sets up the same scenario with a new cast.

Yup. Bad, I mean, bad. Predictable, silly, gratuitous. Four hundred pages of utter tripe. I laughed in every place I wasn't supposed to.

Rating:
Summary: An average horror novel
Review: The School is a novel published during the "heyday" of horror novels from the mid 80s - mid 90s. At the time, many publishers were publishing one or two horror novels a month. Some were excellent, some were simply awful, and many were just average. This one is one of those average titles.

The story centers around an all-girl boarding school which has a mysterious past. Fifty years earlier, a student disturbingly killed the headmaster and two students in a gruesome fashion. This event set the stage for the school in its modern day. A girl is sent to the school after her parents divorce. Not long after arriving, she sees visions of things that happened fifty years ago. Eventually she ties the past events with the present.

While slow in parts, there are some eerie scenes which will please horror fans. The authors, Ed Kelleher and Harriette Vidal, penned a number of horror novels published under the Leisure line. This one is indicative of their works -- nothing outstanding, but still an average story.

Rating:
Summary: THE BEST
Review: This book combined action with horror to create an excellent thrilling novel. I would deeply recommend this book because I loved it and when I started reading I could't put it down.