Dark Academia Booktok Novels & Stories

‎ ‎I pull out my phone, using the flashlight to see properly. ‎Dark Magic, The Only True Power. 1000 Ways To Summon The Dead. Conjuring, The Old And The Future. Werewolf Supremacy: Understanding Why Werewolves Are Of Higher Ranking. The Metallic Truth About Blood Sucking. Why Humans Should Be Enslaved. Hunting The Hunters. ‎ ‎I kind of see why the books are kept in the restricted archive. With the type of students I've seen here, if any of them get their hands on these books, this academy will be razed down.

I flinched. But even as I wanted to argue, Theo’s face—the tight jaw, the way his fists trembled—came back sharper than any words I could form. “I…” My throat locked. Damien’s smirk curved. “Exactly.” His hand tilted my chin up, forcing my gaze to his. “Stop torturing yourself with fantasies of knights. They’ll never survive in the dark. But I…” His voice dropped lower, dangerous. “I am the dark. And I’ll make sure no one can take you from me.”

Damon's POV I was staring at the book lying on the floor, its leather cover was already cracking from the spine given how often I’d gripped it. It looked so harmless sitting there, but every page seemed like a wound. Every line was my darkness. I had written it in the quiet hours when sleep refused to come, when my thoughts were louder than my heartbeat, when I wished for the kind of silence that only death could give. All of it, my despair, my loneliness, my longing to disappear, was right there, in black ink. And now Sabrina had seen it.

A block of dark unyielding stone that seemed to drink the light rather than reflect it. And sitting at the center of that altar was a book. Not Orin's book. Not the worn leather volume sitting on her desk at home. Something older and heavier and vast in a way that had nothing to do with its physical size. A book whose edges seemed to warp the space around it slightly, whose pages carried the weight of everything that had ever been written down and everything that hadn't. She knew what it was before she could form the thought. The veins of light connecting her hands to the altar pulled her forward. Her feet were locked into the stone. She couldn't step back. Couldn't look away.

“ Ah, it seems like Excalibur has scared you Estelle.“ As he spoke those words 'it' bobbed up and down as nodding in agreement. Estelle covered her eyes and pinched the bridge of her nose. Then a thought popped up in her head that made her smile slightly. “ Excalibur? More like a biological defect.“ “ Exactly... Wait W-what?“ Adrian couldn't believe his ears. What did she just call his nine inch little brother? “ A biological defect, that's what it is.“ Estelle said it loud and clear. But Estelle and her wolf felt like she was telling a very big lie. Adrian's mouth hung open. His wolf, Gelid was attempting to burst out and teach her a lesson. ____________ Estelle's thighs rubbed against each

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I could feel the magic inside me fizzle and snap. I pulled the book with the resurrection spell on my lap. I looked through it again. It needed one thousand souls and a major node. The only major node near here was in Utah, so... it looked like that would be where she would eventually end up, maybe after she got one thousand souls. I had just prevented a bunch of those souls, so perhaps the darkness still needed to power up. I whipped out my new phone. It was so fancy it even had internet. It was something I heard of, but with flip phones being ten years behind the times, I wasn't used to having all this technology at my fingertips. I searched through news headlines.

"You didn't tell me that you are coming, Prince Ares. Must be curious of what's going on here?" "Indeed, Lady Celestina. Don't worry, I won't disturb your students. I'll just stay around the corner." Everyone else turned stiff and unfocused with Demitri around. I sighed and glanced at him a bit. I caught him staring at me while turning the page of the book he was reading. I raised a brow and he quickly drifted his eyes back to the book. I shook my head in disbelief. We were told later on to find a certain book so I went to the huge shelves at the back. Though before I could find it, a hand showed in front of me, holding the book.

I found a book that seemed nice and pulse-racing, Blood Brothers by Nora Roberts. I took it off the shelf and looked back at Ashton who was now holding Jack in his hands. I went to the till and paid for the book. We then went out of the shop and headed to the car park. When we got to the car park, I got in and took Jack from Ashton to remove him from the cover and place him back on the stand. It was around 5:30 pm so we still had some time before heading home. Ashton read that from my mind and then he went around the car, got in and sat on the seat next to mine.

“Looks like I’m not done surprising you yet. And yes. I can. My familiars can sense for spirits and can pull me back. But I need you to make sure nothing else tries to come after me.” Lucas’s jaw tenses. “Are you sure this is a good idea?” “Yes. I’ve been wanting to go look through the books for a while, actually. The Academy has an extensive library. It’s two-stories tall and has the most wonderful smell of old paper and fresh ink.” “It’s obvious why you own a bookstore.” “I do like books, though our store is full of mostly fiction. I love a good romance novel.” He runs his hand up and down my arm. “Why do you love romance novels so much?”