The Reformatory

Name: The Reformatory
ISBN: 9781982188368

by Tananarive Due

Bram Stoker · 2024 · WinnerWorld Fantasy · 2024 · WinnerShirley Jackson · 2023 · WinnerWorld Fantasy · 2023 · Shortlist

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Saga PressOctober 31, 2023HorrorISBN 9781982188368

Award History

Award	Year	Status	Citation
Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Novel	2024	Winner
World Fantasy Award for Best Novel	2024	Winner	“Tananarive Due's historical horror won both the World Fantasy and Shirley Jackson awards for its devastating portrayal of a 1950s Florida reform school's horrors, combining precise historical grounding with ghost story terror.”
Shirley Jackson Award for Novel	2023	Winner	“Tananarive Due won the SJA for a historical horror novel set in a 1950s Florida reform school that fused precise historical research with ghost story terror to produce one of the essential horror novels of the decade.”
World Fantasy Award for Best Novel	2023	Shortlist

About This Book

In 1950 Jim Crow Florida, twelve-year-old Robbie is sent to the Gracetown School for Boys—a brutal reform school where incarcerated Black children are worked to death and their ghosts walk the grounds. Tananarive Due's Bram Stoker Award winner is a historical horror novel of exceptional moral power.

About the Author

Tananarive DueUS

Tananarive Due is an American author of horror and dark fantasy, one of the most celebrated figures in Black horror fiction. She won both the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel and the Shirley Jackson Award for Novel for The Reformatory (2023/2024), a historical horror novel set in a 1950s Florida reform school for Black boys. Born in 1966 in Tallahassee, Florida, Due is a daughter of civil rights activist Patricia Stephens Due. Read more →