For the outsider, the uncanny is a lived experience. For a burns survivor, the uncanny is often an embodied lifelong existence. A School for Outsiders is a school for entry and re-entry: the School for Burns Survivors becomes the point of entry, providing a refuge for survivors, designed to facilitate their re-entry into society. Their journey through the school becomes part of their recovery: a return from the uncanny; a home-coming and return to self.