The Dark Academicals: magic schools, fairytales and haunted houses in the season 6 line-up
The podcast where we delve into the mythos of dark academia, one book at a time.
We’re gearing up for season six of ‘The Dark Academicals’ - our podcast dedicated to dark academia - and it’s time to announce our next six titles.
We have a really fun mix of dark academia settings this season: we have a TikTok romance, a magical school, a genuinely terrifying haunted house novel from the Queen of the Southern Gothic, and some more traditional university-set murdery novels. Hopefully there’s really something for everyone in this line-up!
If you’re signed up to our newsletter (we have giveaways and Q&As!) or listened to the final episode of season 5 then you got a sneak peek at the titles coming to your earbuds this season, but if you’re not quite caught up there’s no need to worry - we’ve got you covered.
You can listen via Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and this very website from 19 September 2023!
The full list of titles and the episode dates are below - we’d absolutely love you to read along with us!
‘The Magicians’ by Lev Grossman (19 Sept)
‘Gothikana’ by RuNyx (3 Oct)
‘The Haunting of Hill House’ by Shirley Jackson (17 Oct)
‘She is a Haunting’ by Trang Than Tran (31 Oct)
‘Summer Sons’ by Lee Mandelo (14 Nov)
‘A Study in Drowning’ by Ava Reid (28 Nov)
You can listen via Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and this very website!
(The podcast is also available on Castbox and Google Podcasts.)
The new season begins streaming every fortnight from 19 September 2023.
If you want to read along this season, we have a list of every title we’ve tackled across the podcast so far that are available through bookshop.org to buy in a playlist below. Buying through our affiliate link helps us fund the podcast and the website, and supports independent bookshops too, at no extra cost to you - a winner for all.
Written by Sophie
