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Down a Dark Hall

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Down a Dark Hall	comment	Down a Dark Hall is a young adult novel by Lois Duncan. Originally published in 1974, it has now been updated for 2011 with some extra lines thrown in about why our intrepid heroine doesn't just use her mobile phone or the internet to summon help.The story is as follows. Sixteen year old Katherine 'Kit' Gordy is sent to Blackwood Hall boarding school so her mum and stepdad can go on honeymoon in Europe. Although she finds it creepy Kit has to admit the rooms are luxurious, the food is good and the teachers led by the glamorous Madame Duret are intelligent. Unfortunately, Madame Duret is using the four girls who make up the student body as vessels to let the spirits of long dead writers, artists, scientists and musicians continue their work. Kit and her friend Sandy are horrified but Ruth who is a genius is excited by the maths and science she finds herself doing while possessed.Unfortunately being a medium comes at something of a personal price and when Kit and her teacher Jules (Madame Duret's son) find out what this is they vow to escape...A film adaptation came out in 2018.
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Down a Dark Hall / int_22a27b19	type	Alpha Bitch
Down a Dark Hall / int_22a27b19	comment	Alpha Bitch: It's tough to be one of these in a school with only four students, but Ruth manages.
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Down a Dark Hall / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Down a Dark Hall / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: Kit sees her father's spirit on the night he died when she was younger. His spirit is able to reach out to her at the end to help her escape Blackwood's fire with her life.
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Down a Dark Hall / int_297ab1b9	type	Parental Abandonment
Down a Dark Hall / int_297ab1b9	comment	Parental Abandonment: Sandy is an orphan, and Kit has both lost her Dad and feels abandoned by her Mother and Dan. Ruth's and Linda's parents are alive but don't even bother to escort their kids to school on the first day. It's strongly implied that this is part of the reason these students were selected to attend Blackwood: Madame Duret didn't want parents who would be inquiring too closely into what was going on with their kids.
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Down a Dark Hall / int_4814d132	type	Big Fancy House
Down a Dark Hall / int_4814d132	comment	Big Fancy House: Blackwood originally was one for the Brewer family until the family passed away.
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Down a Dark Hall / int_617f0563	type	Heelâ€“Face Turn
Down a Dark Hall / int_617f0563	comment	Heelâ€“Face Turn: Jules is a willing participant in his mother's scheme, but once he finds out that every previous girl she's tried this on is dead or in a mental institution, he changes sides immediately.
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Down a Dark Hall / int_751fa24e	type	Missing Time
Down a Dark Hall / int_751fa24e	comment	Missing Time: The girls in the school are possessed by ghosts randomly, and they have don't remember anything that happens while possessed.
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Down a Dark Hall / int_8e4a0f15	comment	Dumb Blonde: Lynda is portrayed as a version of this, given that among the four students, she is clearly the least intelligent.
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Down a Dark Hall / int_963e36bd	type	Boarding School of Horrors
Down a Dark Hall / int_963e36bd	comment	Boarding School of Horrors: Blackwood is one of these for the students even if they don't quite realize what those horrors are at first.
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Down a Dark Hall / int_9ba53911	type	Stranger in a Familiar Land
Down a Dark Hall / int_9ba53911	comment	Stranger in a Familiar Land: If Kit and Sandy can't escape by Christmas the ghosts will be able to use them anywhere and not just at Blackwood. Even if Kit goes home, she'll still be driven mad by the dead.
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Down a Dark Hall / int_b070362d	type	Wicked Stepmother
Down a Dark Hall / int_b070362d	comment	Wicked Stepfather: Subverted. Kit and Dan don't particularly get along, but Kit doesn't resent him and honestly wants her mother to be happy in her second marriage.
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Down a Dark Hall / int_ea51fa45	type	I Never Got Any Letters
Down a Dark Hall / int_ea51fa45	comment	I Never Got Any Letters: Kit is puzzled when her mother and her best friend Tracy both act like she's never bothered to send them any letters when she's been writing both of them frequently. It turns out that Madame Duret has been suppressing almost all the letters the students have written.
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Down a Dark Hall / int_f6624c30	type	Together in Death
Down a Dark Hall / int_f6624c30	comment	Together in Death: Sandy's parents. Their ghosts visit her and specifically tell her that they're together and happy, and she should get on with her life.
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Down a Dark Hall / int_f68664dc	type	Science Is Bad
Down a Dark Hall / int_f68664dc	comment	Science Is Bad: Madame Duret and Professor Farley see the girls as expendable subjects in important research. Also, Ruth is happy to be used by the dead to make scientific breakthroughs until she finds out what's going to happen to her.
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Down a Dark Hall / int_f91985b2	type	School for Scheming
Down a Dark Hall / int_f91985b2	comment	School for Scheming: The exclusive school Blackwood (it's really really exclusive, it only has four students counting the main character) is really for the purpose of collecting kids with ESP so dead writers, artists, composers, scientists, and mathematicians can use them as vehicles to produce all the things they didn't get to when they were alive. This would be all fine and dandy — in fact, Ruth, the most intelligent of the girls, doesn't mind being used to write down mathematical theories — except that not only can people like Emily Bronte and Vermeer get through, but so can anyone else. Sandy ends up transcribing a terribly vulgar poem in French, and let's not even get into what Lynda paints. Also, Blackwood is not the first school Madame Duret opened; there was one in France and one in England. Of all the students at those schools, four killed themselves and the rest are in mental hospitals. Madame Duret keeps trying anyway.
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Down a Dark Hall / int_fc36853c	type	Martyr Without a Cause
Down a Dark Hall / int_fc36853c	comment	Martyr Without a Cause: Kit had multiple opportunities when her mother would have removed her from Blackwood if she'd asked, but Kit was so determined not to be a burden while her mother and stepfather were on their honeymoon that she let them all go by.
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