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Abstract Dark academia is a fandom-created genre that draws on campus novels and thriller murder mysteries extrapolates its aesthetic affects from the Gothic. At heart of dark story set in nostalgic academic fantasy involves murder, close-knit group students who are obsessed with each other detrimentally absorbed their intellectual pursuits. Using nostalgia theory, I argue genre’s theme darknes...