When Dan Crawford attends a summer program at New Hampshire College, he ends up housed in Brookline, a former asylum now being turned into a dorm. Horror author Roux makes a strong YA debut with this creepy tale of a haunted asylum and the teenagers who are drawn to it. Because Brookline was no ordinary asylum, and there are some secrets that refuse to stay buried.įeaturing found photographs from real asylums and filled with chilling mystery and page-turning suspense, Asylum is a horror story that treads the line between genius and insanity, perfect for fans of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children.ĭon't miss any of the books in the Asylum series, or Madeleine Roux's shivery fantasy series, House of Furies! secrets that link Dan and his friends to the asylum's dark past. And not just any asylum-a last resort for the criminally insane.Īs Dan and his new friends Abby and Jordan start exploring Brookline's twisty halls and hidden basement, they uncover disturbing secrets about what really went on at Brookline. The dorm was formerly a sanatorium, more commonly known as an asylum. Except that when Dan arrives, he finds that the usual summer housing has been closed, forcing students to stay in the crumbling Brookline Dorm. Madeleine Roux's New York Times bestselling Asylum is a thrilling and creepy photo-illustrated novel that Publishers Weekly called "a strong YA debut that reveals the enduring impact of buried trauma on a place."įor sixteen-year-old Dan Crawford, the New Hampshire College Prep program is the chance of a lifetime.
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