Buffy the Vampire Slayer's central conceit was that school was hell.
Cursed Studies takes that conceit to another level. All of the students
at Rosebourne Academy are in a hell on Earth, supernaturally trapped in
a faux educational establishment that exists only to torment them and
only our heroine has a chance of freeing them from their damnation.

In short, it's melodramatic as hell, but kind of ingenious and better
than most of it's ilk.

In article <stv8qg$nit$1@gioia.aioe.org>,
David Johnston <davidjohnston29@yahoo.com> wrote:
>Buffy the Vampire Slayer's central conceit was that school was hell.
>Cursed Studies takes that conceit to another level. All of the students
>at Rosebourne Academy are in a hell on Earth, supernaturally trapped in
>a faux educational establishment that exists only to torment them and
>only our heroine has a chance of freeing them from their damnation.
>
>In short, it's melodramatic as hell, but kind of ingenious and better
>than most of it's ilk.

Steffanie Holmes did something along those lines in her
"Kings of Miskatonic Prep" series

Chase did a "modern Sherlock Holmes, but Moriarity is a beautiful woman"
RH series that went on a bit long, but was not bad.
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On 2022-02-08 8:25 p.m., Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
> In article <stv8qg$nit$1@gioia.aioe.org>,
> David Johnston <davidjohnston29@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Buffy the Vampire Slayer's central conceit was that school was hell.
>> Cursed Studies takes that conceit to another level. All of the students
>> at Rosebourne Academy are in a hell on Earth, supernaturally trapped in
>> a faux educational establishment that exists only to torment them and
>> only our heroine has a chance of freeing them from their damnation.
>>
>> In short, it's melodramatic as hell, but kind of ingenious and better
>> than most of it's ilk.
>
> Steffanie Holmes did something along those lines in her
> "Kings of Miskatonic Prep" series

Yes. Same basic idea, but better execution, I thought.

>
> Chase did a "modern Sherlock Holmes, but Moriarity is a beautiful woman"
> RH series that went on a bit long, but was not bad.

In article <stvtm0$19rk$1@gioia.aioe.org>,
David Johnston <davidjohnston29@yahoo.com> wrote:
>On 2022-02-08 8:25 p.m., Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
>> In article <stv8qg$nit$1@gioia.aioe.org>,
>> David Johnston <davidjohnston29@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> Buffy the Vampire Slayer's central conceit was that school was hell.
>>> Cursed Studies takes that conceit to another level. All of the students
>>> at Rosebourne Academy are in a hell on Earth, supernaturally trapped in
>>> a faux educational establishment that exists only to torment them and
>>> only our heroine has a chance of freeing them from their damnation.
>>>
>>> In short, it's melodramatic as hell, but kind of ingenious and better
>>> than most of it's ilk.
>>
>> Steffanie Holmes did something along those lines in her
>> "Kings of Miskatonic Prep" series
>
>Yes. Same basic idea, but better execution, I thought.

You're saying Chase was better, right? I thought Holmes's was a good
elevator pitch idea but with clunky execution.

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On 2022-02-09 6:15 a.m., Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
> In article <stvtm0$19rk$1@gioia.aioe.org>,
> David Johnston <davidjohnston29@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> On 2022-02-08 8:25 p.m., Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
>>> In article <stv8qg$nit$1@gioia.aioe.org>,
>>> David Johnston <davidjohnston29@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>> Buffy the Vampire Slayer's central conceit was that school was hell.
>>>> Cursed Studies takes that conceit to another level. All of the students
>>>> at Rosebourne Academy are in a hell on Earth, supernaturally trapped in
>>>> a faux educational establishment that exists only to torment them and
>>>> only our heroine has a chance of freeing them from their damnation.
>>>>
>>>> In short, it's melodramatic as hell, but kind of ingenious and better
>>>> than most of it's ilk.
>>>
>>> Steffanie Holmes did something along those lines in her
>>> "Kings of Miskatonic Prep" series
>>
>> Yes. Same basic idea, but better execution, I thought.
>
> You're saying Chase was better, right? I thought Holmes's was a good
> elevator pitch idea but with clunky execution.
>

Yes I'm saying Chase did it better. I found myself getting bored during
Miskatonic Prep. Incidentally I just went through Holmes's Amazon
catalog and the closed she gets there to modern day Sherlock Holmes is
the one with the magic bookshop that gives the owner a harem of
fictional villains that includes James Moriarity.