It's not as bad as the time they dropped a cross down his shorts.
In some works, the
Monster Mash settles down and raises a family. And where do they send their children of the night? Why, to a monster school of course! While there may not be anything special about the school itself, all of its students are certainly special. When the teens literally are monsters, and
Wolf Man junior and
Cute Monster Girl need to learn what it is to be a proper nightmare, this is where they go. There's often a
Reluctant Monster or
Friendly Neighborhood Vampire in the cast as the odd monster out, and sometimes it's the new monster on the block. Other times, it's a
normal kid sent there by mistake! It may be all monsters and supernatural creatures, and sometimes it's an exclusive boarding school for one species (almost invariably vampires!).
It may also extend to
witches, but only if the witches in question are a separate
species like Hags. Any fantastical creatures, such as Bigfoot,
Demons, Goblins, mermaids and
fairies, as well as made-up monsters, may also be present, so it does not always follow the
Monster Mash casting exactly. Preferably some form of
Undead should be the main focus, it's mainly anything you'd imagine living in
Halloweentown. Oftentimes the school lessons are on being scary, while other schools may focus on staying off of the Van Helsing hitlist by maintaining the
Masquerade. When it's in a world where monsters are commonplace, it's just a normal public school. If not, it's almost invariably a
Boarding School, or a quite literal
Boarding School of Horrors. Often an
Academy of Adventure in this case. Conversely, it could be an
Academy of Evil. A must if the setting is in
Monster Town.
Requirements are that the school is actually for (or at least appropriated by night by)
monsters, ghouls, ghosts or other supernatural/fantasy non-human creatures. The lone monster enrolled at a normal
human school is a
Fish out of Water and therefore does not count as an example, even if it is a
magic school.
Usually this institute has a suitably spooky name. If it is a generic school with no name mentioned, as long as it's a work involving a specialized school for the sort of students previously mentioned, it counts.
Subtrope of
Extranormal Institute. Related to
Wizarding School, only it's for monsters. Not related to
One Gender School despite the similarity in name.
Examples
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Anime & Manga
Comics
- British children's comics The Dandy had some strips with this premise, "Eddie Potter at Strange Hill School".
- Whizzer And Chips had a "Strange Hill" with a similar concept, but the teacher is a normal man with grotesque students. Another IPC comic Monster Fun had an inversion of that in the strip Creature Teacher with a monster as a teacher and with normal (for British Comics) students.
- The Beano also had a couple of strips with this premise.
- Charm School: Magical Witch Girl Bunny has a love triangle among a witch, a vampire and a fairy at a school whose students are magical creatures.
- The Witch Girls universe has several schools for young witches, which overlap with this, due to both the application of Witch Species, and the occasional staff that are other creatures, or witches that are witch/Otherkin hybrids.
- IDW's aptly titled "All Ghoul's School"
features Darkmoor Academy, and a lot of female monsters.
Literature
- Vampire Academy
- Monster School, a book about a normal kid sent to a school for monsters by accident.
- The House Of Night}} teaches its "vampyres" how to behave in society.
- Monster Goes To School by Virginia Mueller
- 100 Monsters in My School by Bonnie Bader has Frank N. Stein Elementary School and follows Jane Brain, the only human girl at a monster school.
- Bad Day At Monster Elementary by Mike Thaler
- Frankie Stein Starts School by Lola M. Schaefer has Miss Wart's Academy for Ghouls and Goblins.
- Mostly Monsterly by Paula Wiseman and Tammi Sauer is about a nice monster named Bernadette who gets teased for her niceness at a monster school.
- Three Star Billy by Pat Hutchins features a monster nursery school and a bad-tempered monster boy who gets gold stars for acting up, which makes him start to behave instead.
- The Perfect Monster by Sally Grindley features another friendly monster, being tutored by the most gruesome monster in class.
- Jeepers Creepers A Monstrous ABC by Laura Leuck. Educational alphabet book that takes place at a monster school.
- Kanokon: A novel about a boarding school for monsters having trouble keeping up Masquerade.
- Vampire School by Peter Bentley has two: St. Orlok's (for vampires) and Chaney Street Elementary (for werewolves).
Live Action TV
Puppet Shows
- The setting for the Australian kids' TV puppet show Lil Horrors.
Theater
Toys
Video Games
- Disgaea 3 is set at the Evil Academy, where the students include succubi, cat girls, dragons, zombies, and ghosts, among many other things. They do accept human transfer students, assuming they're able to live through the screening process.
- The Academy of Evil from Crash Twinsanity: Although it accepted human students according to the game's story, only two humans are at the academy when the player visits, and both are cyborgs.
- Little Monster At School was an educational CD-i story of the Mercer Mayer character.
Web Comics
- Frightmoore University: Its students are vampires, werewolves and other monsters.
- School Bites: A vampire school called Shadow Academy.
- Eerie Cuties: Charybdis Heights. Vampires, werewolves and others.
- Interestingly, the spin-off comic Magick Chicks takes place in the opposite slayer school. Three protagonists are witches and are transfer students from the All Ghouls School of Eerie Cuties... uhoh. Hilariously, no one seems to notice even if they use their magic powers.
- The currently-on-indefinite-hiatus Night School had Kojo Academy, where creatures of the night went to learn how NOT to be monsters in a modernizing fantasy world.
- Seems to be the setting of Even Goblins Wear Tight Pants.
- Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures has SAIA, short for Succubus and Incubus Academy, which is Exactly What It Says on the Tin. (Though the cubi race in that setting goes for the work-safe alternative of feeding on emotions in general, the specific class of emotions depending on the individual clan and the individual cubi.)
- Fairview High which isn't so much an All Ghouls School as just monsters going to regular high school with the humans blissfully unaware of their existence.
- Monsterful has Addams High and features zombies, mummies, werewolves and vampires, and also some mythological creatures like a gorgon and an anthropomorphic female Loch Ness monster as professors.
- Delcastle High from Tapsal-Teerie is a school for children of the world's monsters, which teaches them to be the next generation of legends.
- Campus Creeps has "Nevergreen Hollow University", a college for monsters.
- Parodied in the Something Positive storyline "Homecoming of Elemental Awful", in which Vanessa decides the scariest possible setting for her Halloween RPG is high school.
Vanessa: Come with me, mortals, to a place where magic and monsters reign, and the law of the land is that might makes right unless that's not cool this week.
Web Original
- A number of OC Role Playing groups/clubs exist based around the concept of an all-monster/supernatural school on deviantART:
Western Animation
