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• Voice Like a Hyacinth

  a Novel

  Pearson, Mallory,

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  Art student Jo Kozak and her fellow classmates and best friends, Caroline, Finch, Amrita, and Saz, are one another's muses--so close they have their own language and so devoted to the craft that they'll do anything to keep their inspiration alive.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Friend of the Devil

  Lloyd, Stephen (Television writer and producer),

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  Welcome to Danforth Putnam, boarding school for the elite, sprawled across its own private island off the coast of New England. Sam, a war vet who feels sure he's seen it all, has been called here to find a stolen rare book. But as he corners D&D…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• In These Hallowed Halls

  a Dark Academia Anthology

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  A collection of twelve dark academia short stories.

• The Reformatory

  a Novel

  Due, Tananarive, 1966-

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  12-year-old Robbie Stephens, Jr. is sentenced to six months at the Gracetown School for Boys, for kicking the son of the largest landowner in town. So begins Robbie's journey further into the terrors of the Jim Crow South and the very real horror of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Riddance

  Jackson, Shelley,

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  Eleven-year-old Jane Grandison, tormented by a stutter, is invited to live and study at The Sybil Joines Vocational School for Ghost Speakers & Hearing-Mouth Children, founded in 1890 as a seeming sanctuary for children seeking to cure their speech…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Daphne

  a Novel

  Malerman, Josh,

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  A brutal, enigmatic woman stalks a girls high school basketball team in a reimagining of the slasher genre.

• Carrie

  King, Stephen, 1947-

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  An introverted girl with remarkable powers of telekinesis faces the horrors of teenage life and unleashes a few horrors of her own when she attends the high school prom.

• Bunny

  Awad, Mona,

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  When Sam receives an invitation to an exclusive clique's party, she plunges deeper and deeper into the sinister world of the Bunny cult. Taking part in their ritualistic "Workshop" where they magically conjure monstrous creations.

• Plain Bad Heroines

  a Novel

  Danforth, Emily M.,

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  A century after the macabre deaths of several students at a New England girls' boarding school, the release of a sensational book on the school's history inspires a horror film adaptation that renews suspicions of a curse when the cast and crew…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ninth House

  Bardugo, Leigh,

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  Alex Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale's freshman class tasked with monitoring the activities of the secret societies. Their eight windowless "tombs" are the well-known haunts of the rich and powerful. Their occult activities are more…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Catherine House

  a Novel

  Thomas, Elisabeth,

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  Catherine House is a school of higher learning like no other. With experimental curriculum, selective admissions policy, and formidable endowment, it has produced some of the world's best minds. The price of acceptance is students are required to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Institute

  a Novel

  King, Stephen, 1947-

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  Intruders silently murder Luke Ellis' parents and load him into a black SUV. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except there's no window. And outside his door are other doors, behind which are other kids with…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• They Never Learn

  Fargo, Layne,

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  Scarlett Clark is an exceptional English professor. But she's even better at getting away with murder. Every year, she searches for the worst man at Gorman University and plots his well-deserved demise. As she's preparing for her biggest kill yet,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Whisper Down the Lane

  Chapman, Clay McLeod,

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  Inspired by the McMartin preschool trial and the Satanic Panic of the '80s, the critically praised author of The Remaking delivers a nuanced portrait of parenthood and mass hysteria.

• Inspection

  a Novel

  Malerman, Josh,

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  J is one of only twenty-six students. His fellow peers are the only family J has ever had. The students are being trained to be prodigies of art, science, and athletics, and their life at the school is all they know. But J is beginning to suspect…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Every Heart a Doorway

  McGuire, Seanan

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  Children have always disappeared from Eleanor West's Home for Wayward Children under the right conditions; slipping through the shadows under a bed or at the back of a wardrobe, tumbling down rabbit holes and into old wells, and emerging somewhere…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Broken Girls

  St. James, Simone,

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  More than sixty years after one of four friends in a reputedly haunted boarding school goes missing, journalist Fiona Sheridan resolves to learn her sister's fate before a harrowing discovery is made.

• Bitter Apples

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  You'll find students' ghosts haunting classrooms, desperate teachers joining cults, zombies plaguing underfunded schools, and more. The institution of education is rotting. How will we survive its horrors?

• Another

  Ayatsuji, Yukito, 1960-

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  In the spring of 1998, Kouichi Sakakibara transfers to a new school. In class, he notices the students and teachers alike seem frightened. As a chain of horrific deaths begin to unfold around him, he comes to discover that he has been placed in the…Read moreRead more of this annotation