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Halloween 2023: 31 Days of Dark Academia, October 16

Dark Academia novel: Missing Clarissa by Ripley Jones (2023)

Quote:

Everyone from Oreville knows the story of Clarissa. Her living ghost haunts the long rain-dark winters alongside the looming specters of Washington’s grim army of infamous serial killers and litany of missing girls…. Clarissa Campbell, who vanished so completely that no one has found a trace of her – not the full investigative force of the Oreville police department, not legions of armchair sleuths and online obsessives, not television news crews or magazine reporters or Clarissa’s friends and family.

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Halloween 2023: 31 Days of Dark Academia, October 25

Dark Academia novel: The Sea of Lost Girls by Carol Goodman (2020)

Quote:

Every year the coast guard holds an assembly about the dangers of crossing the causeway that only seems to increase its appeal.

When I get out of the car I can hear the dense pines that stand sentinel over the peninsula creaking in the salt-laced wind… and something else.

A sound like a girl crying.

I freeze and listen. It could just be the wind in the trees or the mournful sigh of the tide retreating over the rocks below the coastal path, but then, peering through the fog, I catch a glimpse of something white that looks like a girl running... I remember the ghosts who are said to haunt these woods. 

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31 Days of Dark Academia: Halloween 2021

October 11: Legendborn by Tracy Deonn (2020)

Quote: 

That memorial over at the Arboretum is the pretty acknowledgement, the polite one. But the blood? The blood’s buried here.

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31 Days of Dark Academia: Halloween 2021

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

October 31: Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley (1818)

Quote 1:

My heart was fashioned to be susceptible of love and sympathy, and when wrenched by misery to vice and hatred, it did not endure the violence of the change without torture such as you cannot even imagine.

Quote 2:

But it is even so; the fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation; I am alone.

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31 Days of Dark Academia: Halloween 2021

October 9: Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss (2018)

Quote:

Who are the ghosts again, us or our dead? Maybe they imagined us first, maybe we were conjured out of the deep past by other minds.

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31 Days of Dark Academia: Halloween 2021

October 5: Grey Land Duology by Peadar Ó Guilín (2016-2018)

Quote from The Call (2016): 

“Oh, they mean to do more than kill you, child. They want to twist you. To crumple you up like an old sheet of paper.”

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31 Days of Dark Academia: Halloween 2021

October 15: The Truly Devious Series by Maureen Johnson (2018-2021)

Quote from Truly Devious (2018): 

It was, in short, idyllic and fantastical, and may have remained as such had it not been for that foggy night in April 1936 when Truly Devious struck.

Schools may be famous for many things: academics, graduates, sports teams.

They are not supposed to be famous for murders.

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Halloween 2023: 31 Days of Dark Academia, October 31

HAPPY HALLOWEEN! 🎃 I hope you've enjoyed this year's countdown, and I hope you have a fabulous Halloween!

Dark Academia novel: When All the Girls Are Sleeping by Emily Arsenault (2021)

Quote:

Most of the girls had simply heard the same things about the Winter Girl over their years at Windham that I had: that her name might be Sarah. That she haunted in January or February. That she knocked on doors or could be seen in a white nightgown in the hallway if you got up and ventured to the bathroom after midnight. That she was to blame for the various weird noises in the building on winter nights. That she had been spurned by a young man and killed herself in her room. One girl said something I hadn’t heard before, though: Some girls say that she’s looking for her replacement. That she’s tired of being a ghost, that she’ll strangle or smother you in your bed if you’re not careful. And then you’re the ghost.