Nightmare Hall: The Silent Scream [Mass Market Paperback]

Diane Hoh (Author)

Book Description

Series: Point | Publication Date: July 1, 1993

Diane Hoh's scary suspense in a bold new package

Jess is eager to start school . . . until she learns a girl killed herself in Jess's room. And she's not entirely gone . . .

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 12 and up
  
• Mass Market Paperback: 229 pages
• Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks (July 1, 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0590460145
• ISBN-13: 978-0590460149
• Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 3.8 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #500,380 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not as scary, but still haunting, December 21, 2008

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Elizabeth (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Nightmare Hall: The Silent Scream (Mass Market Paperback)

The first book in Diane Hoh's mid-nineties paranormal young adult series featuring the haunts of hijinks of Salem University focuses on Jessica Vogt, a college freshman with a roommate from hell...literally. When strange things start happening at her off-campus dorm--Nightingale Hall, a secluded brick house that shares the series' ominous monicker--Jessica learns her room is the one in which former student Giselle McKendrick hanged herself. But was Giselle's death really a suicide, as the campus officials claimed?

I don't know about you, but I've got chills.

Okay, not really. But when I was eleven, and my best friend Shawna loaned me this book to read, I did.

Of course, back then I was more apt to overlook such annoyances as the glittery prose used to describe the protagonist, her shiny hair, and her navy-blue eyes, or the ellipses...that plague...almost every...paragraph..

(What was the deal with the early nineties that everything had to be all neon and spandex and adjectives every other word? Seriously.)

Bottom line: I was happy to see how well this story had held up over time. Is there better YA fiction out there today? You bet. But there's still something very special about Hoh's work.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I loved this book!, August 12, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Nightmare Hall: The Silent Scream (Mass Market Paperback)

It was one of the most suspencefull and eeriest books I've ever read! It's also one of the best. I would surely advise others to read it!

5.0 out of 5 stars Wow..., March 10, 2006

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Gisselle McKendrick "Jada" (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Nightmare Hall: The Silent Scream (Mass Market Paperback)

Wow. I was in my school library with my best friend Gisselle (which is a coincidence since a girl in the book is named Giselle) picking out a book to keep. I came across this book and it looked so interesting so I kept it. She had the same book. We both absoloutely love to read. Ever since that day Diane Hoh has been my favorite author. I read the book and I loved it! It's so mysterious. She makes me think something like that could happen to me.

I would not want to be Jess, the girl who gets haunted by Giselle.