First published 2025
Graduate student Minerva delves into the life of obscure horror writer Beatrice Tremblay, whose novel "The Vanishing" was inspired by a real-life disappearance on their shared campus decades earlier. As Minerva's research deepens, she begins to sense the same malign forces that stalked Tremblay and her missing roommate now threaten her own. Echoing her Nana Alba's terrifying tales of witchcraft in 1900s Mexico, Minerva must confront the supernatural shadows haunting the halls of academia before her own life is consumed.
Genres: literary-fiction, horror, contemporary, gothic, dark-academia, academic
Vibes: atmospheric, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: academic-setting, supernatural-elements, unreliable-narrator
400 pages · Paperback · Del Rey