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Tag: Dark Academia

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  • BlogGuests PostsInterviews
    By The Fantasy Hive
    September 1, 2025
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    THESE DREAMING SPIRES – Anthology Guest Post

    Hello! We’re Marie O’Regan & Paul Kane, the editors of These Dreaming Spires – a sequel to the first ever Dark Academia anthology [In These Hallowed ...
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  • Book ReviewsDark AcademiaFantasy
    By J.L. Brown
    August 1, 2025
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    A THEORY OF DREAMING by Ava Reid (BOOK REVIEW)

    After the events of A Study in Drowning (book 1), Effy and Preston return to their literature college, where Effy is the first woman admitted, and ...
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  • Book ReviewsDark AcademiaFantasyUrban
    By J.L. Brown
    May 12, 2025
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    THE INCANDESCENT by Emily Tesh (BOOK REVIEW)

    This book is not like Harry Potter. At all. But: What if you take a Deputy Head of an English boarding school for magically capable children, ...
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  • Book ReviewsCrime DetectiveDark AcademiaEpicFantasy
    By Nils Shukla
    April 28, 2025
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    THE RAVEN SCHOLAR by Antonia Hodgson (BOOK REVIEW)

      “History, faded to myth and then forgotten, can be lost. But the power remains, steeped into the stone like blood. Do not ask if that ...
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  • Alternate HistoryBook ReviewsDark AcademiaFaeFantasyHistorical
    By Nils Shukla
    December 30, 2024
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    THE SCHOLAR AND THE LAST FAERIE DOOR by H. G. Parry (BOOK REVIEW)

    The Scholar and the Last Faerie Door by H.G. Parry is a fusion of dark academia and historical fantasy which delves readers into a mesmerising tale ...
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  • BlogExcerpts
    By The Fantasy Hive
    October 21, 2024
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    BLOOD OVER BRIGHT HAVEN by M. L. Wang (EXCERPT)

    The first woman ever admitted to a prestigious order of mages unravels a secret conspiracy that could change the practice of magic forever, in this standalone ...
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  • Book ReviewsDark AcademiaFantasy
    By Bethan Hindmarch
    September 19, 2024
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    BLOOD OF BRIGHT HAVEN by M. L. Wang (BOOK REVIEW)

    Blood Over Bright Haven is the new novel from M. L. Wang; it’s a dark academia that confronts social and racial injustices that carries all the emotional ...
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  • Book ReviewsDark AcademiaFantasyHorrorRomance
    By Bethan Hindmarch
    February 16, 2024
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    AN EDUCATION IN MALICE by S. T. Gibson (BOOK REVIEW)

    Carmilla and I grew even more entangled, like flowers who, denied sufficient sunlight, entwine their leaves around each other and grow up strangled with love. An ...
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  • Author SpotlightBlogFeaturesInterviews
    By The Fantasy Hive
    September 27, 2023
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    IN THESE HALLOWED HALLS – Anthology Interview

    “Definition of dark academia in English: dark academia An internet subculture concerned with higher education, the arts, and literature, or an idealised version thereof with a ...
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  • Book ReviewsDark AcademiaFantasy
    By Nils Shukla
    May 18, 2023
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    THE BOOK THAT WOULDN’T BURN by Mark Lawrence (BOOK REVIEW)

    “Some silences stretch, the tension builds and builds again until the suddenness of the inevitable snap. That’s the quiet which lies between people. Other silences fall ...
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