Supernatural danger in Tananarive Due’s fiction is rarely separate from Black history, family and the practical work of survival. The Reformatory is set in 1950s Florida, where twelve-year-old Robbie is sent to a segregated reform school and begins seeing the ghosts of boys who died there. My Soul to Keep and The Living Blood open a longer sequence about an ancient African community whose members possess extraordinary longevity, while The Good House turns a family home, inherited trauma and occult forces into domestic horror. Due’s fiction is character-led and often slow-building, with historical or social pressures carrying as much weight as the supernatural threat. The strongest discovery links are Black horror, historical horror and dark speculative fiction, with clear readership overlap with Octavia E. Butler, Victor LaValle and Stephen Graham Jones. Read more Less
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