Alcott,-girls with bright eyes, and with charming faces (they always have charming faces), standing with reluctant feet where the brook and river meet,-and all that sort of thing.Īnd then, usually, if one is not a girl, one is a heroine-of the kind you read about. Richards writes about, and Nora Perry, and Louisa M. Though I am young and feminine-very feminine-I am not that quaint conceit, a girl: the sort of person that Laura E. Part One: I Await The – Devil’s Coming EXCERPT FROM The Story of Mary MacLane BY MARY MACLANE Line image ‘A deviously delicious cake’ O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE Read more ‘A hot amalgamation of gothic horror and Hollywood satire, it’s draped with depth but bursting with life’ Washington Post

Simply one of the best books I've read in the last decade’ Joe Hill, New York Times bestselling author of The Fireman ‘Wears its brilliance lightly…it's dark, sweet, and addictive. ‘Ingenious, jaw-dropping…a queer roar and it's terrifying and it's a goddamned triumph’ Paul Tremblay, author of A Head Full of Ghosts and The Cabin at the End of the World ‘Buzzing with wickedness…sly, wry and dangerous to know’ Rosie Garland And soon it’s impossible to tell quite where the curse ends and Hollywood begins…

But as the crew of glamorous young actresses assemble to start filming, past and present begin to blur. Now, the school’s doors are open once more.

Three more grisly deaths followed before the school was forced to close. In the early 1900’s, Brookhants students Flo and Clara fell madly in love, brought together by their obsession for a scandalous memoir.Ī few months later they were found dead in the woods, after a horrific wasp attack, the book lying next to their intertwined bodies. Soon to be the subject of a controversial horror movie about the rumoured ‘Brookhants curse’: ‘It’s a terrible story and one way to tell it is this: two girls in love and a fog of wasps cursed the place forever after…’īROOKHANTS SCHOOL FOR GIRLS: Infamous site of a series of tragic deaths over a hundred years ago. ‘A gloriously over-the-top queer romp’ I PAPER ‘Atmospheric, sexy, creepy…totally addictive’ KATE DAVIES, author of In At The Deep End ‘Beguilingly clever, very sexy and seriously frightening’ GUARDIAN ‘Brimming from start to finish with sly humour and gothic mischief’ SARAH WATERS

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