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The Reformatory

by Tananarive Due · 2023

Literary Fiction · ranked #257 in category

Winner · The Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Novel, 2023Winner · The World Fantasy Award for Best Novel, 2024

In 1950s Florida, twelve-year-old Robert is sent to a brutal reform school for boys after a single act of defiance — and discovers the school is haunted by the ghosts of boys who died there, killed by the staff and buried in unmarked graves. Due's Bram Stoker Award-winning novel is based on the real history of the Dozier School for Boys, using horror to confront a genuinely buried atrocity in American history.

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Category
Literary Fiction
First published
2023 · 2020s
Author
Tananarive Due
Standing
Essential Read

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