*Any relation to other horror stories must be denied.
Chapter One - Akademia High, the school of demented teenagers running around and completing spiritual dangers. Some had headless dog corpses in their dorms and others had died in the third floor's third bathroom stall. A pair of twins have formed a bet by their friends that, if they are not convinced that spirits don't exist, they will never believe in ghosts again. Nearby the deadline, on Halloween, everything becomes dead serious past their last curfew.
Chapter Two - After the incidents in Chapter One, a new school is presented. A teenager meets a new student called Kirishima, whom everyone is dead silent at the presence of this new student, only because of the fact that this teenager came from the old Akademia High. When this student returns home with a former student from the last Akademia High, she tells the likeliness of the student to her companion. However, when night strikes, a familiar face knocks at the door.
Chapter Three - After the recent Akademia High schools ruined most of their reputation, they closed all of their schools across Japan. However, a former student of the first Akademia High decides to make a ground breaking discovery that broke her.
Chapter Four - When demented children dies in their parents' room, it's up to the ghosts of the dead students from Akademia High to liberate them. How is this possible with the enemy tormenting them?
Epilogue - All peace arrives, and the timeline is started over again. Each character does not make the same mistake again.
Antique store owner Liz brings home a Victorian taxidermy hound from auction, unwittingly unleashing dark forces on her wife and son.
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Nat Loman has finally married the love of her life, Liz, and is getting used to her role as stepmother to Liz's 5-year-old son, Liam. The Loman family runs a bustling antique business so they attend a sale where a striking, black taxidermied hound is up for auction. Liz picks it up for the business, but it ends up being stored in their home, where Nat notices strange things occurring. She quickly discovers the past residents had died violently. Then she hears from a friend about the myth of "the devil's dog", a hound that perches in the shadows, tearing families apart from the inside. Soon, people around the Lomans are dying, and Liz is changing, darkening. It's up to Nat to save the woman she loves from the darkness closing in, and to save Liam from danger no matter what she has to sacrifice.
[[Winner of the 2018 Wattys "Hidden Gems" category]]
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