![]() ![]() And as the filming begins, the past and present become grimly entangled. ![]() Over a hundred years later, Brookhants hits the news when writer Merritt Emmons publishes a book on the queer history surrounding the ‘haunted’ school and that book is about to be adapted into a controversial horror film. But not before three more people died on the property, each in a troubling way. Within five years, The Brookhants School for Girls is closed. A copy of the book is found splayed in the woods near the two girls’ dead bodies after a horrific wasp attack. The book takes us to 1902, at an all girl’s boarding school in Rhode Island, where students Flo and Clara are madly in love with each other, as well as completely obsessed with The Story of Mary MacLane, a scandalous debut memoir. It’s a funny and clever American Gothic novel with a queer twist, and I’d never read anything like it before. When I began reading Plain Bad Heroines, I couldn’t wait to get started on designing the cover. ![]()
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