The Society of Cursed Names

**Some manuscripts were written to be read. Others were bound to destroy.**

When senior archivist Clara Danforth is appointed to catalog the restricted archive of St. Jude’s College—an ancient New England institution veiled in autumn fog—she uncovers a leather-bound 1842 ledger locked inside a wall alcove. Entitled *The Record of Erased Names*, the manuscript details seven prominent scholars whose ...