The Reformatory
Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Novel · 2024 · WinnerWorld Fantasy Award for Best Novel · 2024 · WinnerShirley Jackson Award for Novel · 2023 · WinnerWorld Fantasy Award for Best Novel · 2023 · Shortlist
Award History
| Award | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Novel | 2024 | Winner |
| World Fantasy Award for Best Novel | 2024 | Winner |
| Shirley Jackson Award for Novel | 2023 | Winner |
| 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 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 →
