Tananarive Due
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Gracetown, Florida June 1950 Twelve-year-old Robbie Stephens, Jr., is sentenced to six months at the Gracetown School for Boys, a reformatory, for kicking the son of the largest landowner in town in defense of his older sister, Gloria. So begins Robbie's journey further into the terrors of the Jim Crow South and the very real horror of the school they call The Reformatory. Robbie has a talent for seeing ghosts, or haints. But what was once a comfort...
2) The between
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
A man risks his soul and his sanity to save his family from malevolent forces in this brilliant novel of horror and the supernatural from the award-winning pioneer of speculative fiction and author of the classic My Soul to Keep.
When Hilton was a boy, his grandmother sacrificed her life to save him from drowning. Thirty years later, he begins to suspect that he was never meant to survive that accident, and that dark forces are working to rectify...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Jessica marries David, he is everything she wants in a family man: brilliant, attentive, ever youthful. Yet she still feels something about him is just out of reach. Soon, as people close to Jessica begin to meet violent, mysterious deaths, David makes an unimaginable confession: More than 400 years ago, he and other members of an Ethiopian sect traded their humanity so they would never die, a secret he must protect at any cost. Now, his immortal...
Author
Publisher
Prime Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"In her debut collection of short fiction, Due takes us to Gracetown, a small Florida town that has both literal and figurative ghosts; into future scenarios that seem all too real; and provides empathetic portraits of those whose lives are touched by Otherness. Featuring an award-winning novella and fifteen stories" --
Author
Publisher
Akashic Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In her first new book in seven years, Tananarive Due further cements her status as a leading innovator in Black horror and Afrofuturism American Book Award-winning author Tananarive Due's second collection of stories ranges from horror to science fiction to suspense. From the mysterious, magical town of Gracetown to the aftermath of a pandemic to the reaches of the far future, Due's stories all share a sense of dread and fear balanced with heart...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Essence and New York Times best-selling author Tananarive Due has established herself as a premier figure in paranormal suspense-with champions including horror master Stephen King. My Soul to Take continues the saga of a line of immortals destined to save the world from the apocalypse. Telepath Fana and the Life Brothers are attempting to prevent the spread of a devastating plague, but their efforts are challenged by an unlikely opponent-Fana's fiancé,...
8) The Keeper
Author
Series
Publisher
Abrams ComicArts Megascope
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A young Black girl finds herself trapped between desperation and her family's dark history in this horror graphic novel
Aisha has suffered a devastating loss. Her parents were killed in a car crash, and now she must move to decrepit and derelict Detroit to live with her ailing grandmother. However, shortly after moving in, Aisha's grandmother's health rapidly deteriorates. With her dying breath, she summons the dark spirit that has protected their...
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2005
Language
English
Description
From the award-winning writer of The Good House, The Living Blood, and more, Joplin's Ghost is a chilling tale of a star-in-the-making whose life goes haywire as she is haunted by the ghost of a long-dead music legend. When Phoenix Smalls was ten, she nearly died at her parents' jazz club when she was crushed by a turn-of-the-century piano. Now twenty-four, Phoenix is launching a career as an R & B singer. She's living the life young artists envy...
10) Blood Colony
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2009
Language
English
Description
Best-selling author Tananarive Due's novels about a colony of immortals have won widespread acclaim, including an American Book Award for The Living Blood. The story continues in Blood Colony, as 17-year-old immortal Fana goes on the run from her own parents-only to be hunted by a group with ties to the Vatican.
11) The Living Blood
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2004
Language
English
Description
This sequel to My Soul to Keep, from best-selling author and two-time Bram Stoker Award finalist Tananarive Due, is a breathtaking supernatural thriller. After the disappearance of her immortal husband David, Jessica Jacobs-Wolde must come to terms with the healing blood David gave to her and their daughter Fana. As Fana's powers grow, mother and daughter are swept into an epic battle to determine the fate of humankind.
12) The black rose
Author
Publisher
One World/Ballantine Publishing Group
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Author
Series
Tennyson Hardwick series volume 4
Publisher
Atria Paperback
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Actor-turned-super-sleuth Tennyson Hardwick must face the unthinkable: save his daughter or the woman he loves.
18) The ancestors
Publisher
Dafina Books (Kensington Publishing Co.)
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
The evils of the past haunt the present in a trio of stories from African-American writers.
Publisher
Akashic Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"While the common belief is that "body horror" as a subgenre of horror fiction dates back to the 1970s, Joyce Carol Oates suggests that Medusa, the snake-haired gorgon in Greek mythology, is the "quintessential emblem of female body horror." In A Darker Shade of New Stories of Body Horror by Women Writers, Oates has assembled a spectacular cast to explore this subgenre focusing on distortions to the human body in the most fascinating of ways" -- Page...
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Brand-new stories of witches and witchcraft written by popular female fantasy authors, including Kelley Armstrong, Rachel Caine and Sherrilyn Kenyon writing in their own bestselling universes! These are tales of witches, wickedness, evil, and cunning.