Blackwood Academy, a prestigious boarding school nestled deep within a perpetually shadowed valley, has always been steeped in whispers of its arcane past. Built upon the forgotten grounds of a condemned asylum and rumored to house relics of a time-bending cult, the school’s Gothic spires and labyrinthine halls exude an unsettling grandeur. For Lyra Thorne, a new student drawn to the academy’s historical mystique, it promised intellectual stimulation and a fresh start. But as autumn leaves turn to frost, the whispers grow louder, evolving into chilling screams and unsettling disappearances. Clocks throughout the academy begin to chime at impossible hours, mirrors flicker with fleeting, monstrous reflections, and a pervasive, icy dread grips the student body. Lyra, alongside the pragmatic Rhys Kael, the skeptical Asher Flynn, and the quiet Elara Skye, finds herself entangled in a horrifying unraveling of reality itself. They soon discover that Blackwood isn’t merely haunted; it’s a living, breathing entity, a temporal anomaly fueled by a forgotten ritual and sustained by the fear of its unwitting inhabitants. As the lines between past, present, and nightmare blur, Lyra and her friends must confront a malevolent force that thrives on fractured time and shattered minds, before the academy consumes them entirely, trapping them in its endless, horrifying loop.
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