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Ghost Summer: Stories

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Whether weaving family life and history into dark fiction or writing speculative Afrofuturism, American Book Award winner and Essence bestselling author Tananarive Due's work is both riveting and enlightening. In her debut collection of short fiction, Due takes us to Gracetown, a small Florida town that has both literal and figurative ghost; 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—one of which has never been published before—GHOST SUMMER: STORIES, is sure to both haunt and delight.

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In these extraordinary tales, American Book Award winner Due (My Soul to Take) uses a clear-eyed view of history to explain (but never excuse) the present. Sexual predators are recast as lake creatures ("The Lake"), and werewolves choose cosmetic treatment to disguise their monthly changes ("Aftermoon"); Due craftily employs these shape-shifters to explore how humans embrace transformations in ourselves and one another, even when the result is monstrous. Ghosts abound, bringing past and present into liberating contact. In the title novella, a family under threat of divorce finds reunion through a boy's ghost hunt, which exposes the historical tragedy splitting the Florida town in which they summer. Childhood acts as a prism for varied emotions, encouraging readers to empathize with a weary mother who allows a well-behaved spirit to possess her unruly child "just for the summer" ("Summer"). Pandemic disease in "Patient Zero" and zombie apocalypse in "Danger Word" (the latter coauthored by Due's husband and frequent collaborator, Steven Barnes) heartbreakingly overwhelm adults' best efforts to protect the young. Even facing the end of the world and what comes after it, Due remains in control, carefully unveiling characters' thoughts and feelings to her enthralled readers. Nalo Hopkinson provides an introduction; Barnes contributes an afterword.

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Whether weaving family life and history into dark fiction or writing speculative Afrofuturism, American Book Award winner and Essence best-selling author Tananarive Due’s work is both riveting and enlightening. In her debut collection of short fiction, Due takes us to Gracetown, a small Florida town that has both literal and figurative ghost; 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 15 stories, Ghost Summer: Stories is sure to both haunt and delight.

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Tananarive Due is one of my favorite authors of this genre. Great narrations . I have read the book several times. I enjoyed listening to the audiobook version.

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Extra hard to finish

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I didn't think I would like it but did

I love Tananarive Due books. I bought and downloaded it as soon as I saw her name. I didn't realize it was short stories until the first one ended as it was an audible book. Damn, I said. I kept listening each time hurt that the stories didn't continue. I was very thankful for carrier series though. All the stories are very good just horribly short 😭.

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what did i just read

this is the first read by author and iam not impressed like what am i reading maybe it should have been written in a different point of view it was confusing every time it changed to a new story i was like wth the baby story i felt was incomplete wat happen to her idk won’t waste anymore time on this sloth

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Haunting and Beautiful

The fifteen stories collected in Ghost Summer are some of the most engaging short stories I've had the pleasure of reading. That pleasure was in no small part because these stories often provide a vastly different perspective from much of the horror and speculative fiction on the market, informed by the author's experiences as a black woman, both socially conscious and attuned to history. It's a perspective and worldview that readers should actively seek out because Tananarive Due successfully displays both the ways we are all the same and the stark differences that haunt many people to this day. There's nothing not to love in this collection, but it's the Gracetown stories kicking everything off that stuck with me the most. This strange, haunted place in northern Florida arrests the reader just as it seems to capture residents and visitors, sometimes in horrifying ways. Gracetown is a place of transformation and possession. It's a town where the ghosts of a torturous, hateful past reveal uncomfortable truths. Due provides us with glimpses of the past, of places where myth and legend overlap with the real world, where cultures collide with sometimes beautiful but often horrific results. We experience sadness and loss, sickness, and terror as the author paints all-too-real portraits of people, from those struggling to escape their circumstances to those hoping to find the peaceful embrace of death. It isn't all about the past or present, as she also takes us to the end of the world, displaying a keen understanding of human nature that proved almost prescient when compared to the pandemic conditions that ushered us into the current decade. Narration provided by Tananarive Due herself, as well as Robin Miles and Janina Edwards makes for a different experience from story to story, each individual breathing life into the narratives in slightly different ways, but never in an unsatisfactory manner.

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very descriptive

amazing stories that I could visually see. amazing narrative. great collection of spooky stories

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Could Stop Listening

Loved the writing style. Empowered the reader to develop their own conclusions to the short stories.

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liked most but not all

1st time hearing about this author and decided to give her a listen. I wasn't disappointed but I am not a fan of all of the stories. Also, most were read by her and it sounded a little monotonous but overall, a 4.5 of 5 because those that did captivate me were phenomenal.

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I recommend this audiobook for fans of mystical horror and dystopian future fantasy. This is a very satisfying group of short stories that I found fascinating. The narrators were excellent.

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Perfect spooky season listening

-feels like a grown up version of Goosebumps, short stories about random potential horrors. There’s ghosts, voodoo, zombies, cloning, plagues. Some stories are more heavy than others. -very fun spooky season read! The first section Gracetown wasn’t my fav, but everything after that was like 5 stars. -the author gives you a little back story behind each chapter. It’s really cool peeking into someone’s mind and getting an idea of how their imagination works. This was also free for me to listen to on Audible, so this was an awesome find!

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The Ancestors Audiobook By Brandon Massey, Tananarive Due, T. A. Banks cover art

The Ancestors

  • By: Brandon Massey, Tananarive Due, T. A. Banks
  • Narrated by: J. D. Jackson, Tye Jones, Robin Miles
  • Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
  • Overall 4 out of 5 stars 130
  • Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 108
  • Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 107

L.A. Banks, Tananarive Due, and Brandon Massey are three of the hottest names in suspense fiction. In this collection of flesh-crawling tales, each author contributes one deliciously twisted selection. A writer unearths dangerous truths in backwoods Mississippi and a man's sanity - and life - are threatened by disturbing visions. Then, in the third and final tale, two children are forced to face off against terrifying ancestors.

3 Black Supernatural stories by 3 authors.

  • By Chris on 08-03-15

By: Brandon Massey , and others

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Dark Corner

  • Narrated by: J.D. Jackson
  • Length: 18 hrs and 9 mins
  • Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 244
  • Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 180
  • Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 180

In Dark Corner , a Mississippi backwater harbors a growing evil. After David Hunter learns of his estranged father's death in a freak boating accident, he travels to the famed author's home in the quaint burg of Mason's Corner to discover the man he never knew, and something terrifying about himself.

Heading to the top of the genre!

  • By KaHef on 12-13-06

Freedom in the Family Audiobook By Tananarive Due cover art

Freedom in the Family

  • A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights
  • Narrated by: Patricia Floyd
  • Length: 17 hrs and 19 mins
  • Overall 4 out of 5 stars 12
  • Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 11
  • Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 11

Tananarive Due, best-selling author and American Book Award winner, and her mother, Patricia Stephens Due, guide listeners through the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s. Told in alternating chapters, their story is a triumphant memoir of their experiences with everyday people fighting for equality as members of grassroots organizations in the South. Filled with drama, heartache and rousing successes, Freedom in the Family will inspire and enlighten with its riveting account of one of America’s most progressive times.

Took me back to the Civil Rights era.

  • By Kathleen McDonald on 11-18-11

Skin Folk Audiobook By Nalo Hopkinson cover art

By: Nalo Hopkinson

  • Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
  • Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 49
  • Performance 5 out of 5 stars 40
  • Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 40

In Skin Folk , with works ranging from science fiction to Caribbean folklore, passionate love to chilling horror, Nalo Hopkinson is at her award-winning best spinning tales like "Precious", in which the narrator spews valuable coins and gems from her mouth whenever she attempts to talk or sing. In "A Habit of Waste", a self-conscious woman undergoes elective surgery to alter her appearance; days later she's shocked to see her former body climbing onto a public bus. 

mindblowingly exquisite!!!

  • By Amazon Customer on 12-23-20

Midnight in the Graveyard Audiobook By Thomas F. Monteleone, Kealan Patrick Burke, John Everson, Chad Lutzke, William Meikle,

Midnight in the Graveyard

  • By: Thomas F. Monteleone, Kealan Patrick Burke, John Everson, and others
  • Narrated by: Gary Bennett
  • Length: 14 hrs and 39 mins
  • Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 744
  • Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 677
  • Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 676

Midnight. Some call it the witching hour. Others call it the devil’s hour. Here in the graveyard, midnight is a very special time. It is a time when ghostly spirits are at their strongest, when the veil between our world and theirs is at its thinnest. Legend has it, that while most of the world is asleep, the lack of prayers allow the spirits to communicate under the cover of darkness, among the headstones, their whispers rustling in the leaves of the old oak trees. But if you’re here in the graveyard, you can tell yourself it’s just the wind....

Very good selection

  • By Michael on 08-23-20

By: Thomas F. Monteleone , and others

Great Classic Ghost Stories Audiobook By Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Edgar Allan Poe cover art

Great Classic Ghost Stories

  • Sixteen Unabridged Classics
  • By: Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Edgar Allan Poe
  • Narrated by: John Lee, Bronson Pinchot
  • Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
  • Overall 4 out of 5 stars 303
  • Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 277
  • Story 4 out of 5 stars 274

This collection of short ghost stories includes some of the best-known classics in the genre, as well as some that may be new to ghost story fans. Includes: ”The Damned Thing by Ambrose Bierce, ”The Empty House" by Algernon Blackwood, ”The Consequences" by Willa Cather, ”How It Happened" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, ”A Ghost" by Guy De Maupassant, and more.

Some stories are great others not so much.

  • By Femke on 11-29-12

By: Charles Dickens , and others

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The Dismembered

By: Jonathan Janz

  • Narrated by: Matt Godfrey
  • Length: 4 hrs and 32 mins
  • Overall 4 out of 5 stars 40
  • Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 36
  • Story 4 out of 5 stars 36

In the spring of 1912, American writer Arthur Pearce is reeling from the wounds inflicted by a disastrous marriage. But his plans to travel abroad, write a new novel, and forget about his ex-wife are interrupted by a young woman he encounters on a London-bound train. Her name is Sarah Coyle, and the tale she tells him chills his blood. Sarah’s younger sister has been entranced by Count Richard Dunning, who is rumored to dabble in bizarre religious rites and experimental medicine. Arthur agrees to help, but he has no idea of what awaits him at Altarbook, Sarah’s ancestral mansion

A note perfect love letter to Gothic horror

  • By Steve Vortex on 01-11-23

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Within the Shadows

  • Narrated by: Dion Graham
  • Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
  • Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 382
  • Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 323
  • Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 324

In this spine-tingling thriller, mystery author Andrew Wilson is blessed with a life most would envy, but he has no one to share it with. And then he meets Mika Woods, a woman of otherworldly beauty. After a night of passion, Andrew regrets his decision and wants to take things slow. But slow is not Mika's speed, and soon Andrew is combating the advances of an obsessed, supernatural woman.

Wow, great story

  • By Lyndenia on 12-03-13

Black Noir Audiobook By Otto Penzler - editor cover art

  • Mystery, Crime, and Suspense Fiction by African-American Writers

By: Otto Penzler - editor

  • Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt, Sean Crisden
  • Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
  • Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 15
  • Performance 5 out of 5 stars 13
  • Story 5 out of 5 stars 13

Some of the best-known and most influential pieces of crime fiction have been from African American writers. Be it Walter Mosley's great Detective Easy Rawlins, or the mean streets of Harlem at the hands of Chester Himes, the stories and characters in this anthology have shaped the mystery genre with their own unique viewpoints and styles. Contributors to the collection include Robert Greer, Chester Himes, Walter Mosley, Cary Phillips, Frankie Bailey, and Richard Wright. 

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Midnight Mass

By: F. Paul Wilson

  • Narrated by: Jamie Renell
  • Length: 12 hrs and 35 mins
  • Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,650
  • Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,505
  • Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,500

Vampires have always lived in Eastern Europe. But with the fall of the Soviet Union, they began to spread across the continent, then the world, turning whole populations into vampires - or human cattle. Having overrun India, the far East, and the great cities of North and South America, the forces of Night are now spreading into the countryside to consolidate their conquest.

  • By Ashley Pingatore on 12-23-20

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The New Moon's Arms

  • Narrated by: Gin Hammond
  • Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
  • Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 392
  • Performance 5 out of 5 stars 347
  • Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 348

Calamity is confronting two big transitions: the death of her beloved father and the beginning of menopause, a physical shift that has rekindled her gift for finding lost things. Suddenly, she is getting hot flashes that seem to forge objects out of thin air, most notably a four-year old boy. As Calamity takes the child into her care, she discovers that all is not as it seems. Then, Calamity must reawaken to the mysteries surrounding her own childhood and the early disappearance of her mother.

  • By newmoon on 07-05-19

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  • Narrated by: Chris Fabry
  • Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
  • Overall 5 out of 5 stars 179
  • Performance 5 out of 5 stars 155
  • Story 5 out of 5 stars 157

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  • Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 250
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A wonderful story of women blooming through the darkest nights

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By: Various

  • Narrated by: Seth Podowitz
  • Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
  • Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 103
  • Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 90
  • Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 89

Fifteen of the biggest names in weird literature come together to pay tribute to Hellboy and the characters of Mike Mignola’s award-winning line of books! Assembled by Joe Golem and Baltimore co-writer Christopher Golden, this anthology boasts 15 original stories by the best in horror, fantasy, and science fiction, including Seanan McGuire (October Daye series), Chelsea Cain ( Heartsick ), Jonathan Maberry (Joe Ledger series), and more! The new writer of Hellboy and the BPRD , iZombie co-creator Chris Roberson, pitches in as well!

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  • By Chris E. on 02-28-20

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  • Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
  • Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 71
  • Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 56
  • Story 5 out of 5 stars 56

Ever come across a situation that simply wasn't right - where someone was getting the dirty end of the stick and you wished you could make things right but didn't know how? Fourteen-year-old Jack knows how. Or rather he's learning how. He's discovering that he has a knack for fixing things. Not bikes or toys or appliances - situations...It all starts when Jack and his best friends, Weezy and Eddie, discover a rotting corpse - the victim of ritual murder - in the fabled New Jersey Pine Barrens. Beside the body is an ancient artifact carved with strange designs.

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  • Narrated by: Devon Sorvari
  • Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
  • Overall 4 out of 5 stars 63
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Siblings Bert, Willet, and Pansy know better than to go swimming at the old rock quarry. According to their father, it's the Devil's place, a place that's been cursed and forgotten. But Mississippi Delta summer days are scorching hot, and they can't resist cooling off in the dark, bottomless water - until the day six-year-old Pansy vanishes...not drowned, not lost, simply gone. When their father disappears as well, Bert and Willet leave their childhoods behind to try and hold their broken family together.

Intriguing Southern gothic tale

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  • Overall 4 out of 5 stars 1,557
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  • Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 9,698
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Horrible narration

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  • Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 286
  • Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 247
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A terrifying, thrilling collection of must-listen horror stories chock-full of nightmarish supernatural beings and the murderously disturbed that are sure to keep you up all night long. 

creepy definitely

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I can only listen in 1-2 hour segments!

  • By Brenda on 10-04-21

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ghost summer stories by tananarive due

Book Review: Ghost Summer Stories

Ghost Summer Stories

“No one warned her about summers in Gracetown…”

I started reading Ghost Summer Stories because I was looking for more horror by black authors, and because it was being read by a number of people whose opinions I trust. By the end of our read-along we all came to essentially the same conclusion: this collection of stories is excellent and now we need to read everything else author Tananarive Due has ever written!

SUMMARY: Whether weaving family life and history into dark fiction or writing speculative Afrofuturism, American Book Award winner and bestselling author Tananarive Due’s work is both riveting and enlightening. In her debut collection of short fiction, Due takes us to Gracetown, a small Florida town that has both literal and figurative ghost; 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—one of which has never been published before—Ghost Summer: Stories is sure to both haunt and delight.

The stories are grouped into four sections: Gracetown , The Knowing , Carriers , and Vanishings .

Gracetown contains three stories all set in the same town in Florida during the summer. While “The Lake” (told from the POV of a predator) and “Summer” (child snatchers and the dark side of parenting) are both disturbing in their own ways, the titular novella “Ghost Summer” is the clear standout, and probably the best story in the whole collection. It features the trope of kids being able to see ghosts that adults can’t, but then it adds a twist when the dad plays along and gets drawn into the otherworldly investigation. It’s a story that literally gets better and better with every page (quite the feat indeed).

The Knowing contains five stories that mostly seem to revolve around characters with special powers (either by being born with them or attaining them through devilish deals, witchcraft, etc). “Free Jim’s Mine” ends up being a creepy little creature feature, made even more so because I find subterranean caves and tight spaces terrifying. It’s also a gut punch reminder that everyone those we love can hurt us in their pursuit of selfish ends. “The Knowing” is an interesting tale of a woman who knows the exact date that everyone is going to die. “Aftermoon” has werewolves. “Trial Day” has voodoo magic. And I won’t spoil anything about “Like Daughter” but I will say I’m still recovering from the shocking twist ending.

Carriers contains five stories that all have to do with viruses, plagues, and the apocalypse. Right now it is June of 2020 and the world is suffering from a global pandemic. Safe to say a lot of the stories in this section had an extra layer of unsettling horror to them. “Patient Zero” and “Danger Word” (the latter of which was co-written with her husband Steven Barnes) both have young boys as their protagonists, and it’s heartbreaking to see world crumbling through their eyes (though each are under different circumstances). “Removal,” “Heard Immunity,” and “Carriers” all have the same protagonist and are basically chronological accounts of the before, during, and aftermath of the world-destroying virus (forming a short story trilogy of sorts). All three are good, but I think “Heard Immunity” is my favorite.

Finally, Vanishings contains just two short stories, both involving characters who are dying and/or coping with the loss of loved ones (death = vanishing). All of Due’s stories have a mournful note underlying them, but these are probably the two saddest ones to me. The author said she wrote them as a way to try and process how people in our lives can just disappear suddenly (through illness, old age, accidents, etc) and not come back. Sad, sad stuff.

I love the range of stories and ideas in this collection, and I think it is cool how they are grouped thematically. Apparently Tananarive Due can write well in pretty much any genre! I also really like how the author includes a short paragraph at the end of each story, explaining where her idea came from and what other anthology/publication it was first published in. They provide neat little insights into the germ of the stories and the mind of the author.

I read this collection at a much slower pace than I normally read. I wanted to luxuriate in the prose and contemplate the larger truths underpinning each tale. And I just didn’t want the book to end. Due’s ideas, plots, and characters are fantastic on their own, but what puts this collection above and beyond others like it is the writing style. Gorgeous descriptions, metaphors, and characterization. An easy intertwining of tense, heart-pounding adrenaline and quiet lamentation. I think her husband, who wrote the afterword, puts it best when he says her stories, beyond just the basics of storytelling, include the language of poetry. It’s what is happening in between the lines that really leaves an impact.

It’s not just that she’s writing plots, characters, and circumstances that we can relate to or see in our own lives, but that she’s trying to find the deeper meaning in them. And by offering us a wide range of perspectives, such as “the crying child, the departing lover, the discontented customer, the senile grandparent who used to be so alive and wise” (Due 331) we are able to understand life, love, and loss in a variety of ways. These facets, occasionally brazen but often subtle, make up the numerous facets of our world. The fact that Due can put all of that together so effortlessly and so achingly real makes it pure magic, and her the magician. Highly recommend!!!

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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TANANARIVE DUE (tah-nah-nah-REEVE doo) is an award-winning author who teaches Black Horror and Afrofuturism at UCLA.

A leading voice in Black speculative fiction for more than 20 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 The Reformatory (October 31, 2023), The Wishing Pool and Other Stories, 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 her husband/collaborator, Steven Barnes, wrote the Black Horror graphic novel The Keeper, illustrated by Marco Finnegan. Due and Barnes co-host a podcast, "Lifewriting: Write for Your Life!"

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“Ms. Due accomplishes the hardest thing of all with deceptive ease, creating characters we care about on their most human level.” —Stephen King “In these extraordinary tales, American Book Award-winner Due ( My Soul to Take ) uses a clear-eyed view of history to explain (but never excuse) the present.” Weekly (Starred) Named one of Publishers Weekly Top 10 Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror titles for the fall! Whether weaving family life and history into dark fiction or writing speculative Afrofuturism, American Book Award winner and Essence bestselling author Tananarive Due’s work is both riveting and enlightening. In her debut collection of short fiction, Due takes us to Gracetown, a small Florida town that has both literal and figurative ghost; 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-one of which has never been published before- Ghost Summer: Stories , is sure to both haunt and delight. The title novella, “Ghost Summer, won a Kindred Award from the Carl Brandon Society (originally published in The Ancestors). This collection includes “Patient Zero”, “The Lake”, “The Knowing”, “Herd” Immunity”, and many other stories. With an Introduction by Nalo Hopkinson and an Afterword by Steven Barnes .

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Tananarive Due is an American Book Award and NAACP Image Award­–winning author, who was an executive producer on Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror for Shudder and teaches Afrofuturism and Black Horror at UCLA. She and her husband, science fiction author Steven Barnes, cowrote the graphic novel The Keeper and an episode for Season 2 of The Twilight Zone for Paramount Plus and Monkeypaw Productions. Due is the author of several novels and two short story collections, Ghost Summer: Stories and The Wishing Pool and Other Stories. She is also coauthor of a civil rights memoir, Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights (with her late mother, Patricia Stephens Due). Learn more at  TananariveDue.com .

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Jake Blount is an award-winning interpreter of Black folk music based in Providence, RI who has charted an unprecedented, Afrofuturist course on his pilgrimage through sound archives and song collections. In his hands, the banjo, fiddle, electric guitar and synthesizer become ceremonial objects used to channel the insurgent creativity of his forebears. From transfixing solo sets to full-band festival appearances, Blount’s performances at the likes of Carnegie Hall, the Newport Folk Festival, the Library of Congress and NPR’s Tiny Desk - like his recent Smithsonian Folkways release, The New Faith - seamlessly merge centuries-old traditional songs with the trappings and techniques of modern Black genres. This “genrequeer” approach to the traditions has earned his music a place in the very same archives from which he extracts his repertoire. In defiance of genre categories, revisionist histories and linear time, Blount fashions an “Afrofuturist folklore” that disintegrates the boundaries between acoustic and electric, artist and medium, and ancestor and progeny.

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