The Elements of Dark Academia by Jared Shurin

Ambition. Desire. Isolation. Secrets. Don your best tweed and sharpen your daggers: school is in session. In this revelatory collection of over two dozen stories, award-winning anthologist Jared Shurin guides us through the hallowed halls of Dark Academia, from its Gothic roots to its boundary-pushing present. Ranging from the mysterious to the fantastic, the romantic and the horrific, these stories explore the hidden secrets of elite institutions, probe our relationship with power, and examine the darkest corners of human nature.