Thread! 🧵🎃 📚 Happy October! This month I'll be making a daily #Halloween Countdown post on the theme of #DarkAcademia, with a separate book recommendation and atmospheric, eerie quote each day.
This will be "Part 2," in a way, adding to a previous thread, which I reposted recently with the tag #31DABooks.
I hope you enjoy these posts!
CW: Death, ghosts, and other dark subjects
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#DarkAcademia work:
#DarkThingsIAdore by #KatieLattari (2021)
Quote:
Someone knows what I did. And someone knows that I’m back.
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#DarkAcademia work:
#Frankenstein by #MaryShelley (1818)
Quote:
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.
We've reached the end of this 🧵. Thank you for joining me! I'll be posting more Dark Academia recommendations and quotes daily in October.
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#DarkAcademia work:
#TheMaryShelleyClub by #GoldyMoldavsky (2021)
Quote 1:
Fear is where the truth lies.
Quote 2:
If you want this to be over, just make sure she screams.
#Gothic #Books #31DABooks #MaryShelley
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#DarkAcademia work:
#Genesis by #BernardBeckett (2006)
Quote:
In the end, living is defined by dying. Book-ended by oblivion, we are caught in the vice of terror, squeezed to bursting by the approaching end. Fear is ever-present, waiting to be called to the surface.
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#DarkAcademia work:
The #GemmaDoyle trilogy (2003-2007) by #LibbaBray
Quote from #AGreatAndTerribleBeauty (2003):
What frightens you?
What makes the hair on your arms rise, your palms sweat, the breath catch in your chest like a wild thing caged? Is it the dark? A fleeting memory of a bedtime story, ghosts and goblins and witches hiding in the shadows? Is it the way the wind picks up just before a storm, the hint of wet in the air that makes you want to scurry home to the safety of your fire? Or is it something deeper, something much more frightening, a monster deep inside that you've glimpsed only in pieces, the vast unknown of your own soul where secrets gather with a terrible power, the dark inside?
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#DarkAcademia work:
#TheDevilMakesThree by #ToriBovalino (2021)
Quote:
Demons. Dark magic. The devil. These were the things he searched, muttering under his breath and dead to the world around him as dawn broke; as something grappled at the door of his office...
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#DarkAcademia work:
#TheHistorian by #ElizabethKostova (2005)
Quote:
As a historian, I have learned that, in fact, not everyone who reaches back into history can survive it. And it is not only reaching back that endangers us; sometimes history itself reaches inexorably forward for us with its shadowy claws.
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#DarkAcademia work:
#STAGS series by #MABennett (2017-2021)
Quote from S.T.A.G.S. (2017):
I think that’s when I realised he was crazy: he was still being chivalrous, waiting until I was quite ready for him to kill me.
26/32
#DarkAcademia work:
#InMyDreamsIHoldAKnife by #AshleyWinstead (2021)
Quote:
It turns out the real you is a quilt, made up of the light and the dark. The life you’ve lived in sunshine and your shadow life, stretching underneath the surface of your mind like a deep underwater world, exerting invisible power. You are a living, breathing story made up of the moments in time you cherish, all strung together, and those you hide. The moments that seem lost. Until the day they’re not.
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#DarkAcademia work:
#HouseOfNight series by #PCCast & #KristinCast (2007-2014, ongoing)
Quote from #Marked (2007):
“Remember, darkness does not always equate to evil, just as light does not always bring good.”
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#DarkAcademia work:
#WakingTheMoon by #ElizabethHand (1994)
Quote:
They never found her. Nothing at all: no clothes, no jewelry, no bones or teeth or locks of auburn hair.
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#DarkAcademia work:
#PlainBadHeroines by #EmilyMDanforth (2020)
Quote:
You’re much too young to haunt your own life.
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#DarkAcademia work:
#VitaNostra by #MarinaDyachenko and #SergeyDyachenko, translated by #JuliaMeitovHersey (1st edition 2007, English edition 2018)
Quote:
“If we get to the end of the course… we shall become just like them. And we shall speak their language. Then we’ll take revenge.”
21/32
#DarkAcademia work:
#HowWeFallApart by #KatieZhao (2021)
Quote:
A kid at our school died, and my parents’ biggest concern is my calc grade. Smh —Anon
20/32
#DarkAcademia work:
#IfWeWereVillains by #MLRio (2017)
Quote:
You can justify anything if you do it poetically enough.
19/32
#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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#DarkAcademia work:
#NeverLetMeGo by #KazuoIshiguro (2005)
Quote:
We took away your art because we thought it would reveal your souls. Or to put it more finely, we did it to prove you had souls at all.
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#DarkAcademia work:
#TrulyDevious Series by @maureenjohnson (2018-present)
Quote from TRULY DEVIOUS (2018):
Schools may be famous for many things: academics, graduates, sports teams.
They are not supposed to be famous for murders.
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#DarkAcademia work:
#ALessonInVengeance by #VictoriaLee (2021)
Quote:
“Didn’t they say all the witches died here at Godwin House?”
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