Tananarive Due
Tananarive Due is an American novelist, educator and film historian who has spent thirty years making Black horror central rather than marginal. Her novel The Living Blood won the American Book Award in 2001, and The Reformatory, published in 2023, took the Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel, the Shirley Jackson Award and a World Fantasy Award. She teaches a course at UCLA called The Sunken Place: Racism, Survival and the Black Horror Aesthetic, built around Jordan Peele's Get Out, and she appears regularly as an authority on the genre's history. The scholarship and the fiction feed each other.
TV (2)
Books (24)
- The Good House (2003)
- My Soul to Keep (1997)
- The Reformatory (2023)
- The Between (1995)
- Black Girl Survives in This One (2024)
- From Cape Town with love (2010)
- Blood colony (2008)
- In the night of the heat (2008)
- Casanegra (2007)
- Joplin's ghost (2005)
- The living blood (2001)
- The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction 2023 (2024)
- Wishing Pool and Other Stories (2023)
- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror (2022)
- Keeper (2022)
- Get Out (2019)
- Dark Discoveries - Issue #38 (2018)
- Ghost Summer: Stories (2015)
- Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History (2014)
- My Soul to Take (2011)
- The Living Dead 2 (2010)
- The Ancestors: (2008)
- Freedom in the family (2003)
- La rosa negra/ The Black Rose (2003)
Where to start with Tananarive Due
The Reformatory is the one to read first, a Jim Crow Florida reform school where the haunting and the history are the same problem. My Soul to Keep starts the African Immortals sequence and is the best entry to her longer arcs. The Good House is the straight haunted house novel. Ghost Summer: Stories is where the short fiction lives, and Eli Roth's History of Horror shows her doing the critic's half of the job.