The Midtown Scholar Bookstore is thrilled to welcome USA bestselling author Cassandra Khaw to Harrisburg for a conversation and signing on her new dark academia novel, The Library at Hellebore. Khaw will be in conversation with author Tara Stillions Whitehead.

This is a ticketed event. Every ticket includes a signed copy of the book and up to two general admission tickets. Doors will open at 6:00pm, and the event will begin at 7:00pm. Seating is general admission; first come, first served. Early arrival is encouraged. Please note that seating is not guaranteed for bookstore events.

About the Book:

A deeply dark academia novel from USA Today bestselling author Cassandra Khaw, perfect for fans of A Deadly Education and An Education in Malice who are hungry for something more diabolical.

The Hellebore Technical Institute for the Gifted is the premier academy for the dangerously powerful: the Anti-Christs and Ragnaroks, the world-eaters and apocalypse-makers.
Hellebore promises redemption, acceptance, and a normal life after graduation. At least, that’s what Alessa Li is told after she’s kidnapped and forcibly enrolled.

But the Institute is more than just a haven for monsters. On graduation day, the faculty embark on a ravenous rampage, feasting on their students. Trapped in the school’s cavernous library, Alessa and her surviving classmates must do something they were never taught: work together.

If not, this school will eat them alive...

About the Author:

Cassandra Khaw is the USA Today bestselling and Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Library at Hellebore, Nothing But Blackened Teeth, The Salt Grows Heavy, Breakable Things, and coauthor of The Dead Take the A Train with Richard Kadrey. They are an award-winning game writer.

Tara Stillions Whitehead (she/her) is a writer and filmmaker based in Central Pennsylvania. A 2024 VCCA and SAFTA Fellow, her writing has been nominated for the Maya Angelou Award for Fiction and the Aspen Words Award. Author of three books of fiction and hybrid text, her essay, “The Mother Must Die and Other Lies Fairytales Told Me,” first published in Fairy Tale Review, was included as a notable work in Best American Essays 2022, edited by Alexander Chee. She is Assistant Professor of Film, Video, and Digital Media Production at Messiah University.

Prices include applicable PA sales tax and Harrisburg City amusement tax.