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    October 26: The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova (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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    October 24: House of Night series by P.C. & Kristin Cast (2007-2014)

    Quote from Marked (2007):
    “Remember, darkness does not always equate to evil, just as light does not always bring good.”
    NOTE: I contributed the essay “Reimagining ‘Magic City’: How the Casts Mythologize Tulsa” to a book about the House of Night Series, Nyx in the House of Night. You can read more of my posts about the series here.   

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    October 22: Waking the Moon by Elizabeth Hand (1994)
    Quote 1:
    They never found her. Nothing at all: no clothes, no jewelry, no bones or teeth or locks of auburn hair.
    Quote 2:
    By the door the two figures remained still. I slitted my eyes, afraid that they would see that I was awake, be moved by the reflection of starlight in my pupils to reach for me with those terrible arms. Still they said nothing, only stood there unmoving, watching, waiting. 

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    October 20: Vita Nostra by Marina Dyachenko & Sergey Dyachenko, trans. Julia Meitov Hersey (1st published 2007, in English 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.’”

    Sasha shook her head.

    “If we get to the end of this course, we won’t want to take revenge anymore. We’ll become just like them.”

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    October 18: If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio (2017)

    Quote 1:
    But that is how a tragedy like ours or King Lear breaks your heart — by making you believe that the ending might still be happy, until the very last minute. 
    Quote 2:
    You can justify anything if you do it poetically enough.


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    October 17: In My Dreams I Hold a Knife by Ashley Winstead (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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    October 15: The Truly Devious Series by Maureen Johnson (2018-2021)
    Quote from Truly Devious (2018): 
    It was, in short, idyllic and fantastical, and may have remained as such had it not been for that foggy night in April 1936 when Truly Devious struck.
    Schools may be famous for many things: academics, graduates, sports teams.
    They are not supposed to be famous for murders.

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    October 10: This Is Not a Test by Courtney Summers (2012)

    Quote 1:
    We eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner to the soundtrack of our own impending death.
    Quote 2:
    Sometimes you catch something specific like the screams and 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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    October 8: Conjure Wife by Fritz Leiber (1943) 
    Quote: 
    Things are different from what I thought. They’re much worse.
    Film Adaptations: Weird Woman (1944), Night of the Eagle (A.K.A. Burn, Witch, Burn!) (1962), and Witches’ Brew (A.K.A. Which Witch is Which?) (1980)

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    31 Days of Dark Academia: Halloween 2021
    October 4: Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay (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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