Tananarive Due about being a Black horror author
A man risks his soul and his sanity to save his family from malevolent forces…
The Literary Life Podcast recently talked with Tananarive Due about the scripted drama show Horror Noire, as well as about her latest novel, The Between.
About the show
Horror Noire is available on Shudder, the streaming service for horror films. Horror Noire, an anthology project focused on Black horror, is a follow-up to the similarly named documentary.
“It is scripted narrative horror, six stories,” Due said. “My collaborator and husband, Steven Barnes, and I wrote two of them, and four other writers also wrote stories. So I’m really, really excited about Horror Noire as a group effort.”
You can scroll down and listen to the whole podcast interview below.
About the novel
Due’s novel The Between was referred to by Locus as “magic realism with soul.” 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 that mistake.
When Hilton's wife, the only elected African American judge in Dade County, Florida, begins to receive racist hate mail from a man she once prosecuted, Hilton becomes obsessed with protecting his family. The demons lurking outside are matched by his internal terrors—macabre nightmares, more intense and disturbing than any he has ever experienced. Are these bizarre dreams the dark imaginings of a man losing his hold on sanity—or are they harbingers of terrible events to come?
As Hilton battles both the sociopath threatening to destroy his family and the even more terrifying enemy stalking his sleep, the line between reality and fantasy dissolves . . .
Chilling and utterly convincing, The Between is the haunting story of a man desperately trying to hold on to the people and life he loves as he slowly loses himself.
“Finely honed...always engages and frequently surprises.”—New York Times Book Review
The Between
Tananarive Due
Harper Perennial
Categories: Horror Fiction, Occult & Supernatural, Black & African American Horror Fiction
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About the Author
Tananarive Due (tah-nah-nah-REEVE doo) is an award-winning author who teaches Black Horror and Afrofuturism at UCLA. She is an executive producer on Shudder's groundbreaking documentary Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror. Her books include Ghost Summer: Stories, My Soul to Keep, and The Good House. She is married to author Steven Barnes, with whom she collaborates on screenplays.
Podcast Episode: Tananarive Due on Reinventing Black Horror
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