Totally Normal Boarding Schools™
Horror books that take place in boarding schools (or somewhere similar) for the most part. Because homework isn't bad enough already. Recommendations are always welcome!
created by curiousmoth
last updated June, 2026
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The Incandescent by Emily Tesh takes place in a boarding school! It’s from the perspective of the Director of Magic so it catches an interesting angle of boarding school happenings
It seems very cool! But I think that's more fantasy aligned than horror? Thanks for the suggestion regardless!
This is a very cool topic to curate a list for, 10/10 🙂↕️👏🏼
and I’m only asking this since you mentioned boarding schools or similar environments, but does summer camp count? If so, maybe The Honeys by Ryan La Sala?
hmmm I think it does! Adding it!🫡
YESSSS this is such a good micogenre 🫶🏼 iirc Plain Bad Heroines has this too!
Plain bad heroines is added! I so love books in this niche
Gonna mention Every Heart A Doorway even though it’s more dark fantasy murder mystery rather than horror, and The Gray House by Mariam Petrosyan which is more magical realism fantasy weird — simply because it may be of interest to those interested in this list, not because it qualifies. Appreciate a good microgenre list! Great start.
I'm noting down The gray house✍️Thanks!!
Didn’t notice this was your list 🤭
ha surprise! i guessed it was finally time to compile my recent interest into a list
Would totally buddy read that one down the line if you’re interested. Meant to get to it a while back but it wasn’t the time.
sure, I'll let you know when I can do it!
