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Jan 9, 2025 | 
barnesandnoble.com | Tananarive Due |Isabelle McConville
On Breathing and Writing Through Grief: A Guest Post by Tananarive Due No one writes horror like Tananarive Due, and her latest is her best yet. Sharp, tragic, heartbreaking and terrifying, The Reformatory takes readers back in time to an all-boys school in the 1950s American South. Read on for an essay from Tananarive on writing her latest spine-tingling novel.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
fivebooks.com | Vajra Chandrasekera |Martha Wells |Emma Törzs |Tananarive Due
Let’s start with a book that scooped two awards this year, winning both the Hugo Award for Best Novel and the Ignyte Award for Outstanding Novel: The Saint of Bright Doors, by Vajra Chandrasekera. Yes! And it was also nominated for the Nebula. I think it’s a fantastic debut; I can’t wait to see more from Chandrasekera. We follow Fetter, the child of a god with an unwanted destiny.
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Nov 17, 2024 | 
post-gazette.com | Tananarive Due
Tananarive Due, an award-winning master of horror and science fiction, allows readers the chance to explore a full showcase of her talents in this year’s “The Wishing Pool.” The 14 short stories, grouped into sections by larger themes, offer an ambitious cross-section of terror and elicit the same giddy excitement many readers of my generation first experienced as kids with Alvin Schwartz’s “Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark.”But these are not children’s tales.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
sacbee.com | Laura Esquivel |Tananarive Due
It’s safe to say Leigh Bardugo has worn many hats. Years before she was a literary sensation, Bardugo had a career in advertising, then she was a Hollywood makeup artist. She describes herself as a lifelong lover of books and storytelling, but Bardugo didn’t necessarily plan on being a full-time writer—let alone a million-selling author with a blockbuster publishing deal under her belt.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
shepherd.com | Tananarive Due |Alan Baxter |Coy Hall |Kev Harrison
My favorite read in 2024 I'd heard good things about this book going in, so wondered if it could live up to the hype but, within a short few pages, I was so totally sucked into the story that those fears were swiftly dispelled. It's a difficult read in places, eye opening for someone from the UK who doesn't understand the context of the Jim Crow United States as well as someone who lives there.
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
beforewegoblog.com | Beth Tabler |Micah Dean Hicks |Tananarive Due |Peter Straub
October is my favorite month. Not just because I get to take out my comfy cardigan collection and an excuse for more coffee, it is because of the spotlight on the horror genre. Horror seems like a collection of Stephen King novels and a few other books. This is far from the truth. There is a lot of gorgeous horror novels that will chill you. Below are some well known, and not so well known horror novels that you might not have looked at. You want ghosts, I got you.
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Oct 14, 2024 | 
huffpost.com | Tananarive Due
This column is part of HuffPost’s “She the People” series: stories by Black women exploring Kamala Harris’ historic candidacy. To read more, visit our hub. My late mother’s eyes were almost always hidden behind dark glasses. When she was only 20 years old and a college student at Florida A&M University, a police officer threw a canister of tear gas in Mom’s face during a peaceful march. And marked her for life.
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Oct 13, 2024 | 
bookbrowse.com | Tananarive Due
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Jill
Historical Horror Novel
THE REFORMATORY by Tananarive DueWow, this was a difficult read that hit me to my core and at times I could only read a few chapters and then have to set it down. This is a historical horror novel of a powerful story of racism and abuse, and a shameful period in history.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
uncannymagazine.com | Tananarive Due |Clockpunk Studios
1926Washington, D.C.Shaw District“There’s a man on the front stoop.”The words spilled from her in a much more mundane way than Judy had expected, considering how her neck was fluttering with her excited pulse. Alvin looked up from the new Langston Hughes poetry collection he was reading under the lamp in Professor Garrett’s parlor. Every window confirmed that it was long after dark, a full two hours since supper. “What man?” Alvin said.
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
bookriot.com | Tananarive Due |Erica Ezeifedi
As a kid, I remember reading the iconic Goosebumps series by R.L. Stine, and watching shows like the Goosebumps adaptation and Are You Afraid of the Dark? on Nickelodeon, but at some point, I turned away from horror. Between my adolescent years and my adult life up until very recently, I achieved weenie status and mostly shied away from all things frightening. But then I started working for Book Riot and editing our Fright Stuff newsletter, and suddenly, the macabre became much more appealing.
