Down a Dark Hall

Down a Dark Hall was written by Lois Duncan and is a book about a girl named Kit Gordy, going to a boarding school miles away from the closest town, which is a small village called Blackwood. So she comes to her new home for the school year with her new step father Dan and her worrying mother, who are ready to go on their honeymoon. When they see the boarding school that Kit would be staying at, it looked surprisingly different from what they saw in the brochure they were given. The three of them could not at first find the word to describe the house until Kit found the one word that could easily describe how it looked, which was the one word no one wanted to hear before they drop her off in a strange school evil. After her new father and her concerned mother left on their honeymoon she meets one of the staff members, Natalie who comes from the village Blackwood. Natalie tells her that the boarding school used to belong to an old man who lost his family in a fire. On the next day only three more students come to the boarding school. They are Lynda, Ruth, and Sandy. They are going to be the only other students who will be joining Kit during the school year. The faculty and the student’s relationships become sour towards the end of the book. The book contains many characters that are well written and are important for the book to be able to catch a reader’s interest.
The characters of Down a Dark Hall are very interesting, especially Kit who is still getting over the death of her father when she was seven. Now her mother got married to a nice regular guy Dan who just wants the best for both of them. Madam Duret who is the head of the school has a mysterious past from two former private schools in Europe. Professor Farley comes from one of the private schools that Madam Duret taught at also with a small number of students. Sandy was the first student after Kit to arrive at the school. She has a weird experience with a person that is not actually there, according to