
Book guide
Shadowland
When magic stops being a trick, two boys discover the terror waiting in Shadowland.
Genre and trope pairingsHorrorAncient evilHorrorIsolationFantasyTraining scenesFantasyMentorFantasyAncient evilDark FantasyAncient evilDark FantasyDark magic
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About Shadowland
At a private school in Arizona, Tom Flanagan and Del Nightingale forge a friendship while enduring bullying and fear. Del introduces Tom to magic, but during a summer at his uncle’s lakeside estate, Shadowland, their hobby becomes far darker and more dangerous than either boy imagined.
Reading signals
- Spice
- None
- Darkness
- Dark
- Pacing
- Slow
Content warnings
- violence
- emotional-abuse
- physical-abuse
- torture
- forced-institutionalization
- fire-injury
- death
- animal cruelty
- animal death



