The Reformatory

Name: The Reformatory
Brand: Gardners Books Ltd
SKU: 9781803366531
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By Tananarive Due

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Summary

Set in Jim Crow Florida in 1950, The Reformatory follows twelve-year-old Robert Stephens Jr., who is sent to The Gracetown School for Boys after a minor altercation with a white boy. This segregated reformatory harbours dark secrets and is haunted by the restless spirits of boys who died there. To endure the school's brutal governor and his sinister Funhouse, Robert must seek help from the ghosts, who come with their own hidden motives.
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Format: Paperback / softback

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Ideal for readers who appreciate atmospheric horror with historical and supernatural elements.

"The Reformatory is one of those books you can't put down. Tananarive Due hit it out of the park." Stephen King

Winner of the Bram Stoker Award®, World Fantasy Award and Los Angeles Times Book Prize, this is a gloriously creepy Deep South horror story based on the infamous Dozier School for boys.

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Jim Crow Florida, 1950. Twelve-year-old Robert Stephens Jr., who for a trivial scuffle with a white boy, is sent to The Gracetown School for Boys. But the segregated reformatory is a chamber of horrors, haunted by the boys that have died there.

In order to survive the school governor and his Funhouse, Robert must enlist the help of the school's ghosts – only they have their own motivations...

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781803366531

Publisher: Titan Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 31 October 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Titan Books Ltd

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 130.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 608

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Fiction General Fiction Horror & Supernatural Tananarive Due

About the Author

Tananarive Due (tah-nah-nah-REEVE doo) is an award-winning author who teaches Black Horror and Afrofuturism at UCLA. She is an executive producer on Shudder’s groundbreaking documentary Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror. She and her husband/collaborator, Steven Barnes, wrote “A Small Town” for Season 2 of The Twilight Zone on CBS All Access and episodes in SerialBox’s Black Panther: Sins of the King. A leading voice in Black speculative fiction for more than twenty years, Due has won an American Book Award, an NAACP Image Award, and a British Fantasy Award, and her writing has been included in best-of-the-year anthologies. Her books include Ghost Summer: Stories, My Soul to Keep, and The Good House. She and her late mother, civil rights activist Patricia Stephens Due, co-authored Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights. She and Barnes live with their son, Jason, and two cats.