The Dreaming (2005) by Queenie Chan is about identical twins Jeanie and Amber, who are new students at Greenwich Private College, but the school's halls harbor a secret: students have begun to wander into the surrounding bushlands and vanish without a trace. However, Amber and Jeanie soon learn that the key to the school's dark past may lie in the world of their dreams. The story takes place in a secluded boarding school surrounded by dark forests and cut off from the outside world. The protagonists are foreigners from the city sent to this unfamiliar place. This creates a sense of isolation that torments the characters and leaves them on their own. As most gothic literature incorporates, the boarding school is filled with secrets and a dark history that is slowly uncovered. These secrets connect to the broken reality that the twins experience. The twin sisters experience strange visions, nightmares, and a growing sense that something is wrong. The line between dreams and waking life becomes increasingly blurred as they try to solve the mystery in their dreams. 

And of course, the gothic double is extremely prominent through the twins. Jeanie and Amber’s identical appearance causes confusion and suspicion among the school’s staff, and their bond becomes a central tension in the plot. The Vice-Principal very explicitly says that she will not allow twins in the school, so the girls are forced to act as if they are not twins. This forced separation of their shared identity introduces a rupture that reflects the Gothic fascination with split selves and fractured consciousness. The denial of their twinship becomes symbolic of suppressed truth, in addition to the suppressed truth of the school itself. This motif also aligns with classic Gothic literature, such as Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, where doubling is used to externalize internal conflict. In The Dreaming, the sisters’ entangled fates reflect the emotional horror of being seen as one yet forced to exist as separate.