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The Afterdark by Amanda Cordner

The Afterdark

Amanda Cordner, Emily Nixon, Thom Nyhuus

Tundra · Print & ebook · January 7, 2025

A Horror pick for readers exploring The Afterdark.

YA LGBTQ+YA HorrorDark YA Fantasyteens
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Who it’s for
Queer desire meets boarding-school dread in a shadowy, Lovecraftian YA horror atmosphere.
Genres
YA Horror, YA LGBTQ+, Dark YA Fantasy
Published
Tundra, January 7, 2025

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About this book

Queer horror at a boarding school with a Lovecraftian twist in this new YA novel from E. Latimer, author of the acclaimed The Strange and Deadly Portraits of Bryony Gray. Northcroft is an elite boarding school with a deadly secret. Each night as the bell tolls and the shutters slam down, cutting off the outside world, the Afterdark descends, turning the surrounding old growth forest into a macabre copy of itself. A negative photograph crawling with horrors.

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Evie Laurent is certain of one thing from the moment she sees Holland Morgan on the front steps of Northcroft: she wants to know everything there is to know about her. But there are some things about Evie herself that are better kept secret. Especially the fact that she let her sister drown. And that it's getting harder to ignore her dark impulses . . . Holland Morgan knows falling for Evie is just one more terrible choice in her long history of terrible choices. The problem is, she's not sure she cares. As attraction turns slowly to obsession, they find themselves playing a dangerous game. Something out there is calling to each of them. Beckoning to the shadows within. Do they fight the call and protect one another, or answer and embrace the darkness?

Shadows After Dark

Queer desire meets boarding-school dread in a shadowy, Lovecraftian YA horror atmosphere.

Come here for

  • Queer attraction tangled with eerie boarding-school horror
  • A Lovecraftian shadow over dark YA fantasy

Expect

  • An unsettling descent into obsession and darkness
  • An old-growth forest rendered as a macabre double

Where it sits

YA Horror83%
YA LGBTQ+74%
Dark YA Fantasy31%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • YA Stories About Girls & Women
  • YA Horror
  • YA LGBTQ+
Authors
Amanda Cordner, Emily Nixon, Thom Nyhuus
Publisher
Tundra
Published
January 7, 2025
Format
Print & ebook
Reading lane
YA Stories About Girls & Women