Announcement: Season Nine of The Dark Academicals is coming!
Season 9 of The Dark Academicals begins streaming on Tuesday 1st October.
I can’t quote believe that we’re back for season nine of the podcast in just a few weeks. We’re deep in the prep, reading and recording stages for this season and we’re so excited about the books we have upcoming this season.
More than that, our special supplemental episodes that we share on our Substack - The Dark Academicals Book Club - is also returning for a super exciting new run.
We’ve had a really lovely break at the end of the summer and we’re so happy being stuck back in. There’s something so special about this time of the year. Autumn and winter is the time for year for us when books and reading and dark academia and podcasts and curling up with a combination of all of those things is just the perfect comfort for the dreary days and dark evenings here in the UK.
This is what we’ve got coming up:
We’ve got debuts, books in a series, Gothic classics, new releases and weird literary fiction.
‘Immortal Dark’ by Tigest Girma is a Black vampire debut that we’re SO excited to read. It’s getting some incredible reviews and, duh, vampires. We’re hoping this is going to be a really exciting start to Season Nine. We’re following that up with ‘The Centre’ by Ayesha Manazir Saddiqui which is a weird, psychological horror-y dark academia that stars a woman confounded by her boyfriend who instantly picks up new languages at the drop of a hat…
Our dark academia adjacent title is a reread of favourite of mine, ‘Rebecca’ by Daphne du Maurier, and I’m so, so excited for Sarah to finally (finally) read this. It’s a classic in Gothic fiction and a masterclass in the sinister and foreboding. Next up is a debut dark academia thriller about four scholarship students at an exclusive school in Ellie Keel’s ‘The Four’.
Second to last is the follow up to ‘Belladonna’, ‘Foxglove’ by Adalyn Grace. We read ‘Belladonna’ in season seven and both really enjoyed it, and the way that it ended set up a really interesting way to further explore dark academia - I’m excited to continue another series! Finally for season nine is ‘A Great and Terrible Beauty’ by Libba Bray which is a real blast from the past for both of us. Sarah and both read this upwards of a decade ago and are so excited to revisit this Gothic historical novel set at Spence Academy.
We really hope you’re as excited as we about the new season and hope you’ll listen. You can listen at Spotify, Apple Podcasts, right here on the blog, and everywhere else you get your podcasts.
Season 9 of The Dark Academicals begins streaming on Tuesday 1st October.
Curriculum: Winter Term begins here on Substack on Tuesday 8th October. Most of the episodes will be exclusive to our paid subscribers, but there will be episodes available for everybody to enjoy.
Written by Sophie
