The Dreaming

The Dreaming is an Australian Horror OEL Manga trilogy by Queenie Chan.

The story begins with twin sisters, Amber and Jeannie Malkin, starting at Greenwich Private College, a boarding school in the remote Australian bush with a history of missing students. The twins have horrible nightmares and strange things begin to happen in the school, with a soon a student vanishes. Needless to say, It Gets Worse.

Not to be confused with the spin-off of The Sandman.


 * Adults Are Useless: Mostly true,
 * Angsty Surviving Twin:
 * The Blank: The  is depicted faceless in many of the paintings.
 * Boarding School of Horrors: The surrounding bush is haunted by
 * Bittersweet Ending:
 * Buried Alive:
 * Connect the Deaths
 * Creepy Housekeeper: Variation on the theme - in this case, the creepy Mrs. Skeener is the Vice Principle, not a house keeper.
 * Demonic Possession:
 * Different As Night and Day: Subtly so - Amber and Jeanie don't have a whole lot in common and aren't very close.
 * Don't Go in The Woods: We mean it. Not a good idea.
 * Fate Worse Than Death: Implied that this is what happened to the lost girls.
 * A Fete Worse Than Death: Happens to
 * Haunted House: In as much as ghosts keep visiting.
 * Oh and don't forget the
 * Kill the Cutie: Quite a few of them.
 * Laser-Guided Amnesia: Bit of this for
 * Living Shadow:
 * Locked Door: You know, that one room with the spooky picture hanging on the door?
 * Mind Control Eyes:
 * Mirror Scare
 * Of Corsets Sexy: The Victorian dresses in the manga are modestly so.
 * Old Dark House
 * Nightmare Fuel: It is a horror manga after all.
 * Rain of Blood: Subverted,
 * Sadist Teacher: Avril Merriweather.
 * She Who Must Not Be Named - Warning: Saying the name of certain disappeared residents of the School while gazing into a mirror may be hazardous to your health.
 * Spooky Painting: The school is filled with them.
 * There Are No Adults:
 * There Are No Therapists: Subverted. Not that their presence did a lot of good of course.
 * Uncanny Valley: Sometimes the characters approach this. Queenie Chan gets a little "too good" in her artistry.
 * Weirdness Magnet: Amber is arguably one of these.
 * Woobie: You'll never guess who.