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!?

The Library At Hellebore

The narrator did wonderful. such an AH-MAZING storytelling. love the way the characters had different voices it made the story

Try hard writing

Hear me out.. dark (very dark) hogwarts. While the story line had its extremely interesting moments, the author’s writing style was VERY much “too much”. It leans heavy on seeming like she just wanted to see how many big words she could fit into one sentence. A shame because I actually liked her use of description at the beginning, but then it truly just made the storyline get lost. Almost DNF because of it

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.