The Haunting of Drearcliff Grange School is by Kim Newman, and it is the sequel to his The Secrets of Drearcliff Grange School, which I did not really realize until afterward. But it didn’t matter: I had a jolly good time reading it anyway, as its protagonist might say. Said protagonist is a superheroine in training, more or less, and she is at a post-Great War girl’s school where that sort of thing might be taught. Or supervilliany, instead. Or mad science, or criminal masterminding, or pulp adventuring: it’s all about making sure that a girl lives up to her potential. As usual, Kim Newman makes it all work.