Marco di Gerlando

Six-year-old Giovanni is at the park with his mom, sitting on a bench and playing with a doll; but the gentleman next to them does not seem to like what Giovanni is doing.

Simone is the target of school bullies, whose recorded exploits make him a viral video star. One day he decides he's had enough.

Set in the imposing Kaiser Academy—a private boarding school that looks like something out of a Gothic novel—*Nightmare School* tells the story of Vittoria’s inexplicable disappearance. A group of friends—Isa, Michi, and Gibbo—join forces to search for her, discovering that the school is far more than a place of learning: it is steeped in legend, a guardian of dangerous secrets, and presided over by an authoritarian headmistress who is the heir to a shadowy alchemist founder…