Plain bad heroines : a novel / Emily M. Danforth ; with illustrations by Sara Lautman.
Our story begins in 1902, at the Brookhants School for Girls. Flo and Clara, two impressionable students, are obsessed with each other and with a daring young writer named Mary MacLane, the author of a scandalous bestselling memoir. To show their devotion to Mary, the girls establish their own private club and call it the Plain Bad Heroine Society. They meet in secret in a nearby apple orchard, the setting of their wildest happiness and, ultimately, of their macabre deaths. This is where their bodies are discovered with a copy of Mary's book splayed beside them, the victims of a swarm of stinging, angry yellow jackets. Less than five years later, the Brookhants School for Girls closes it doors forever--but not before three more people mysteriously die on the property, each in a most troubling way. Over a century after the macabre deaths of several students at the New England girls' boarding school, writer Merritt Emmons publishes a sensational book celebrating the queer, feminist history surrounding the "haunted and cursed" Gilded Age institution. Her bestselling book inspires a horror film adaptation that renews suspicions of a curse when the cast and crew arrive at the long-abandoned building.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780062942852 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 0062942859 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 623 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2020]
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Subject: | Girls' schools > Fiction. Horror films > Production and direction > Fiction. |
Genre: | Gothic fiction. |
Available copies
- 3 of 3 copies available at Lehigh Valley Library System.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Allentown Public Library | DANFORTH, EMILY (Text) | 34455006746271 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Bethlehem Main Library | f (Text) | 33062009352809 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Easton Main Library | DANFORTH (Text) | 31901004466779 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
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