Classic & Older Gothic

The Austere Academy

by Brett Helquist

As their outrageous misfortune continues, the Baudelaire orphans are shipped off to a miserable boarding school, where they befriend the two Quagmire triplets and find that they have been followed by the dreaded Count Olaf.

More Classic & Older Gothic

• The Hound of the Baskervilles — Anne Perry
• Magician's Gambit — David Eddings
• Chronicle of a Death Foretold — Gabriel García Márquez
• The Vile Village — Brett Helquist
• The Wide Window — Lemony Snicket
• The Plague — Albert Camus
• Sophie's World — Paulette Møller
• The Idiot — Frederick Whishaw

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