Further books include the short story collection The Cabinet of Curiosities: 36 Tales Brief and Sinister, young adult novel A Drop of Night, and children's fantasy Cinders & Sparrows, all.

It was followed by a sequel, The Whatnot. Can Anouk and the others figure out how to work together and escape? Bachmann's masterful scene-building alternates between Anouk's flight through the palace and the struggles of Aurelie, who escaped the French Revolution by fleeing into the Palais du Papillon in 1789.'Certain to please those who demand constant action blended with their historical fiction. Bachmann's debut novel, The Peculiar, was bought by HarperCollins in a bidding war when he was eighteen years old. And so is the palace itself, which is filled with deadly traps and invisible monsters. The students' supposed benefactors are trying to kill them. Along with four other gifted teenagers, Anouk will be one of the first people to set foot in the palace in more than two hundred years. A drop of night by Stefan Bachmann, 2016, HarperCollins Publishers edition, in English - First edition. I Know What You Did Last Summer meets Frankenstein.'-YA Books Central Seventeen-year-old Anouk has finally caught the break she's been looking for-she's been chosen to participate in an exclusive program that includes an all-expenses-paid trip to France and a chance to explore the hidden underground Palais du Papillon, or Palace of the Butterfly. A genre-bending thriller from internationally bestselling author Stefan Bachmann perfect for fans of The Maze Runner and Joss Whedon's The Cabin in the Woods.

A Drop of Night by Stefan Bachmann