The Library at Hellebore

Pages: 286
Published: 2025
Language: English

Alessa Li is forcibly enrolled in the Hellebore Technical Institute, a prestigious academy for the world's most dangerous individuals. She's promised redemption, but on graduation day, the faculty turns on the students, feasting on them. Trapped in the library with a few classmates, Alessa must help them survive by offering a nightly human sacrifice, or face a gruesome end. Can they escape the school's monstrous faculty?

Prose complexity: 7/10

Dark Tense Creepy Gritty

Survival Locked Room Sacrifice Fish Out of Water Found Family

Dark Fantasy Fantasy Horror Paranormal

Cassandra Khaw

Cassandra Khaw, born August 31, 1984, is a Malaysian writer of horror and science fiction who also works as a video game scriptwriter for studios including Ubisoft Montreal, and has written for tabletop RPGs and as a games journalist. Their fiction has appeared in Tor.com, Clarkesworld, Fireside Fiction, Uncanny Magazine, and Nature. Their novella Hammers on Bone was a British Fantasy and Locus Award finalist, and their novel The Salt Grows Heavy and USA Today bestseller Nothing But Blackened Te...