Luckily the stories got scarier as I went along. Gulp.
I started with Helen Grant’s, because she gave me this anthology of Dark Academia stories to read. And she’s scary, so I needed to get hers ‘out of the way.’ It’s terribly good, and it’s, well, it’s… well actually, you want to be careful how you go.
After such a beginning, with my heart in my throat, the stories were much more of the pleasant, but dark, kind, taking place in various educational settings. So I decided I quite liked them. You know, without getting too scared.
Towards the end, though, it all got more serious, leaving me in quite a state by the time I had read every story.
One, strangely enough, featured someone I know. I was taken aback to find Daniel Hahn potentially getting up to no good. Is it him? Did he donate money to be put in a book? Did the author pay him? Or is it a weird koinkidink? Whatever, I will now look at Daniel in a different light.
So with Helen Grant putting herself in her tale (I can tell, you know), that’s two friends going academically dark on me.
I thoroughly recommend this anthology, edited by Marie O’Regan and Paul Kane. I can even say that I’d be happy for them to do this kind of thing again. Might approach it without tea and scone next time, however.