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The Tenth Girl by Sara Faring

At the edge of the world in a Patagonian boarding school, a new teacher steps into a maze of whispered rules, locked rooms, and a history that refuses to stay buried. Gothic and atmospheric, The Tenth Girl lures you down dark corridors where every truth has teeth.

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... an unreliable, reality-warping voice that makes you question every memory?

House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland

If you loved how the dual perspectives at the remote Patagonian school kept shifting what you believed—right up until that perspective-shattering reveal—then House of Hollow will hit the same nerve. Iris and her sisters carry a slippery history that won’t stay put, and as Iris hunts for the missing Grey, every clue recolors the past just like the way whispers of the land’s curse at the Vaccaro School forced you to reinterpret Mavi’s every step. It’s lush, eerie, and deliciously untrustworthy.

... a late-game genre swerve with a reveal that reframes the entire story?

Neverworld Wake by Marisha Pessl

Remember how the truth behind the school’s haunting turns everything you thought you knew inside out? Neverworld Wake does that too—only the trap is a looping night where Beatrice and her friends must decide who lives, who dies, and what really happened to the boy they lost. As the rules of their reality come into focus, earlier scenes snap into place with the same exhilarating jolt you felt when the mystery at the edge of the world finally unraveled.

... a fever-dream school setting where the uncanny bleeds into guilty consciences?

The Walls Around Us by Nova Ren Suma

If the isolated classrooms, whispered rituals, and creeping curse at the Vaccaro School got under your skin, The Walls Around Us will, too. It drifts between a ballet prodigy and incarcerated girls whose voices blur with the supernatural, building that same wrong-side-of-reality feeling you sensed when the Patagonian legends seeped through the dormitory walls. It’s haunting, lyrical, and unsettling in all the right ways.

... a gothic mystery where colonial wounds and indigenous knowledge collide?

Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

You were drawn to how the school’s curse is rooted in the land and its first people—and how uncovering it exposes the violence beneath the veneer. In Mexican Gothic, Noemí enters High Place to find rot beneath aristocratic manners, and the house itself bears the imprint of colonial exploitation. As she peels back the family’s secret history, the clash between imported power and local lore echoes the tensions beneath the windswept cliffs you remember.

... unraveling a haunted boarding-school past through rumor, hidden rooms, and buried crimes?

The Broken Girls by Simone St. James

If following Mavi through the dorms and tunnels, chasing rumors of a curse and a missing woman, was your favorite thread, The Broken Girls offers that same investigative pull. Journalist Fiona digs into a 1950s girls’ boarding school with a resident ghost and a tangle of cover-ups; each uncovered secret feels like prying up another floorboard at the edge of the world, where the mundane and the supernatural won’t stay separate.

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