Midterms Are Held at Night - Matthew Petchinsky

At Blackthorn University, knowledge is sacred-until the sun goes down.

When Elias Varn discovers a midterm schedule that only appears in moonlight, he assumes it's a prank. But the names on the list belong to students who have already vanished. And his name is next.

Certain exams are administered only after sunset. No classrooms. No professors. No rules-only proctors without faces and questions that carve into the soul. Pass, and you return changed. Fail, and you are never seen in daylight again.

Drawn into the university's hidden understructure, Elias and Lenora Vale uncover a system older than the institution itself-one that feeds on fear, memory, and the cruel arithmetic of sacrifice. As reality fractures and the line between truth and manipulation dissolves, they are forced to confront an impossible choice:

What are you willing to lose to survive?

But some answers refuse to be written.

And some students refuse to be counted.

Midterms Are Held at Night is a gothic psychological horror novel about memory, love, and defiance in the face of a system designed to break you-one question at a time..