Kk Lily’s Vintage Magic

1. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

2. Greenglass House by Kate Milford

3. The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

4. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

5. The Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories edited by Tara Moore

6. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling

7. P.S Your Cat is Dead by James Kirkwood

8. The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Anderson

9. Hercule Poirot’s Christmas by Agatha Christie

1. Holden Caulfield in The Catcher in the Rye

2. Sherlock Holmes in The Hound of the Baskervilles

3. Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter Series

4. Alice in Alice in Wonderland

5. Emmy in The Mystery of Black Hollow Lane

6. Ophelia in Hamlet

7. Hugo Cabret in The Invention of Hugo Cabret

8. Todd Anderson in Dead Poets Society (The Novel)

9. Anthony Lockwood in The Screaming Staircase

Create the following setting to feel like a dark academic:

1. Wear a cozy sweater, plaid pants, a plaid coat, a black beret, and pair of  Dr. Martens boots. (And a mask!) 

2. Brew some coffee and pour it in a reusable cup

3. Walk to your local library

4. Find a few of your favorite dark academic novels, like Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen, etc.

5. Find a few of your favorite poetry collections, like ones by Emily Dickinson, Sylvia Plath, Walt Whitman, Oscar Wilde, etc.

6. Find a cozy corner in the library, preferably by a window

1. The Secret History by Donna Tartt

2. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

3. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

4. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

5. The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

6. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

7. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll 

8. The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick

9. The Woman in Black by Susan Hill