#DarkAcademia work:
#Hangsaman by #ShirleyJackson (1951)

Quote:
Poor things, she thought - do they have to spend all this energy just to surround me? It seemed pitiful that these automatons should be created and wasted, never knowing more than a minor fragment of the pattern in which they were involved, to learn and follow through insensitively a tiny step in the great dance which was seen close up as the destruction of Natalie, and far off, as the end of the world.

They had all earned their deaths, Natalie thought…

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2/32

#DarkAcademia work:
#Conversion by #KatherineHowe (2014)

Quote:
Something was eating away at the back of my brain. Girls. Dominant narratives. Sex. Death. Arthur Miller. Ann Putman sitting invisible right in the middle of history.

Book Trailer: https://youtu.be/l8eoGjkOX-A

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3/32

#DarkAcademia work:
#AceOfSpades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé (2021)

Quote:
I feel like I’m reliving the same nightmare over and over, and it will never stop.

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4/32

#DarkAcademia work:
#PicnicAtHangingRock by #JoanLindsay (1967)

Quote:
The girl so far had remembered nothing of her experiences on the Rock; nor, in Doctor McKenzie’s opinion or that of the two eminent special­ists from Sydney and Melbourne, would she ever remember. A portion of the delicate mechanism of the brain appeared to be irrevocably damaged.

“Like a clock, you know,” the doctor explained. “A clock that stops under a certain set of unusual conditions and refuses ever to go again beyond a particular point.”

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5/32

#DarkAcademia work:
#GreyLandDuology by @TheCallYA (2016-2018)

Quote from #TheCall (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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6/32

#DarkAcademia work:
#TheSecretHistory by #DonnaTartt (1992)

Quote:
Does such a thing as "the fatal flaw," that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature? I used to think it didn't. Now I think it does.

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7/32

#DarkAcademia work:
#NinthHouse by #LeighBardugo (2019)

Quote 1:
I want to survive this world that keeps trying to destroy me.

Quote 2:
All you children playing with fire, looking surprised when the house burns down.

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8/32

#DarkAcademia work:
#ConjureWife by #FritzLeiber (1943)

Quote:
Things are different from what I thought. They’re much worse.

Film Adaptations: Weird Woman (1944), Night of the Eagle (AKA Burn, Witch, Burn!) (1962), and Witches’ Brew (AKA Which Witch is Which?) (1980)

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9/32

#DarkAcademia work:
#GhostWall by #SarahMoss (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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10/32

#DarkAcademia work:
#ThisIsNotATest by #CourtneySummers (2012)

Quote:
Sometimes you catch something specific like the screams & cries of people trying to hold on to each other before they're swallowed into other, bigger noises. This is what it sounds like when the world ends.

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11/32

#DarkAcademia work:
#Legendborn by #TracyDeonn (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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12/32

#DarkAcademia work:
#WilderGirls by #RoryPower (2019)

Quote:
We don’t get to choose what hurts us.

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13/32