The Library at Hellebore

By: Cassandra Khaw

Narrated by: Natalie Naudus

A deeply dark academia novel from USA Today bestselling author Cassandra Khaw, perfect for fans of A Deadly Education and An Education in Malice who are hungry for something more diabolical. This program is read by Audie and Earphones Award–winning narrator Natalie Naudus.

The Hellebore Technical Institute for the Gifted is the premier academy for the dangerously powerful: the Anti-Christs and Ragnaroks, the world-eaters and apocalypse-makers.

Hellebore promises redemption, acceptance, and a normal life after graduation. At least, that’s what Alessa Li is told after she’s kidnapped and forcibly enrolled.

But the Institute is more than just a haven for monsters. On graduation day, the faculty embark on a ravenous rampage, feasting on their students. Trapped in the school’s cavernous library, Alessa and her surviving classmates must do something they were never taught: work together.

If not, this school will eat them alive...


Also by Cassandra Khaw:
The Salt Grows Heavy
Nothing But Blackened Teeth
A Song for Quiet
Hammers on Bone
The Dead Take the A Train (co-written with Richard Kadrey)

A Macmillan Audio production from Tor Nightfire

Spectacular

I was dumped into a vat of gore, Eldritch gods, and the purest whimsey. The voice actor... girl literally looking up any other boom she's done because the voice of the librarian?! are you fucking with me that was transcendent. No notes.

linguistic greatness

i've always enjoyed this author and this book serves her quite well. she does fascinating things with language; who else uses 'bathyal' as a directional term!?

Wow...

This is a great piece of Lovecraftian horror. Strange creatures from outside our reality. A sense of hopelessness and dread. A battle against something that can't be defeated by mortal means. Overall one great horror book.

Dark, Gorey, and Beautiful, everything I've come to expect from Kaw

loved everything about this, the story and narrator were perfect. If you have a hard time with gore and body horror, you might want to give this a pass, but if that doesn't bother you definitely give this awesome school horror a chance.

Confused

Overly large overlay of past and future.
Hard to keep track on what’s going on.