Tananarive Due’s latest hit “The Reformatory” won the Best Novel award at the World Fantasy Awards. It beat out a number of other best-sellers for the prize including “Looking Glass Sound” by Catriona Ward and Alix E. Harrow’s “Starling House”.
Due, a Tallahassee-native, is no stranger to the literary award circuit. Last year her short story “Incident at Bear Creek Lodge” took home a World Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction category. Some of her other acclaimed works include “My Soul To Keep” and “The Good House”.
“My Soul to Keep” would be the first book in Due’s acclaimed “African Immortals” series. Photo Credit: Harper Voyager
“The Reformatory” is set in a segregated reform school in the deep south. Full of the horror and terror fans of Due’s writing have come to expect, the novel has been hailed as a modern masterpiece. In addition to earning acclaim at the World Fantasy Awards, the novel has also received the 2024 Los Angeles Times Book Prize, a Bram Stoker Award, and was a finalist for the Locus Award.
Due also works as a Professor of Black Horror and Afrofuturism at UCLA, according to her official website. Her writing talents have also been showcased on Shudder’s “Horror Noire” anthology.
Ismael David Mujahid, Executive Editor