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Top authors writing dark academia horror

Kelly Andrew

4.27 · 13 ratings
dark · fiction · young-adult · fantasy · urban-fantasy · book · horror · paranormal · romance · dark-academia · disability · mystery · witches-wizards · ghosts · supernatural · new-adult · monsters · gothic · sci-fi · magic
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Bea Northwick

4.17 · 23 ratings
adult · dark-academia · romance · fiction · fantasy · book · gothic · historical · season-autumn · historical-fiction · horror · spooky · dark · mystery · forced-proximity · paranormal · suspense · victorian · secrets · mental-illness
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Stephanie Denne

4.15 · 13 ratings
dark-fantasy · horror · adult · dark · fiction · fantasy · fated-mates · found-family · paranormal · vampires · romance · book · dark-academia · magic · witches-wizards · urban-fantasy · mental-illness · forced-proximity · fae · friends-to-lovers
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M.L. Rio

4.11 · 76 ratings
fiction · adult · mystery · horror · dark-academia · season-autumn · book · gothic · literary-fiction · contemporary · crime · murder · thriller · historical-fiction · suspense · found-family · university · lgbtq · drama · friendship
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Ashley Winstead

4.08 · 50 ratings
fiction · adult · book · contemporary · psychological · literary-fiction · mystery · female-mc · thriller · dark · horror · dark-academia · suspense · murder · spooky · crime · romance · season-autumn · lgbtq · gothic
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William Jon Watkins

4.00 · 20 ratings
adult · fiction · horror · dark · dark-academia · fantasy · dark-fantasy · book · anthologies
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L.E. Parker

4.00 · 5 ratings
paranormal · book · dark-academia · dark · horror · adult · fiction · urban-fantasy · epic · enemies-to-lovers · philosophy · monsters · apocalyptic · gothic · fantasy · vampires
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Danielle Paige

3.77 · 30 ratings
audiobook · fiction · contemporary · enemies-to-lovers · paranormal · young-adult · supernatural · urban-fantasy · book · dark-academia · magic · horror · dark · new-adult · fantasy · mystery · friendship · witches-wizards · far-away-galaxy · multi-pov
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Marisha Pessl

3.72 · 138 ratings
contemporary · audiobook · suspense · book · fiction · mystery · family · young-adult · female-author · horror · death · dark · dark-academia · crime · 21st-century · paranormal · supernatural · gothic · psychological · law-enforcement
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Elizabeth Kostova

3.70 · 138 ratings
gothic · book · literary-fiction · audiobook · 21st-century · suspense · action-adventure · mystery · fiction · drama · female-author · historical-fiction · historical · epic · realistic · epistolary · horror · adult · dark-academia · dark
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McCormick Templeman

3.46 · 28 ratings
mystery · fiction · horror · book · suspense · fantasy · dark-academia · retellings · dark · young-adult · supernatural · gothic · myths · paranormal · action-adventure · female-mc · murder · witches-wizards · friendship · teens
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