Mazywood

S. A. Cosby’sAll the Sinners Bleedmeets Percival Everett’sErasurein this literary thriller following the grandson of a famous Black actress from the 1920s to the 1940s, now a filmmaker himself, who returns to his grandmother’s cabin retreat in the California mountains only to encounter the legacy of her rage born in Old Hollywood.

Award-winning author Tananarive Due returns with the follow-up to the multi-award-winningThe Reformatoryin this generational novel of rage. With flashbacks to Johnnys grandmotherwho brushed shoulders with giants like Lena Horne, Clark Gable, and Hattie McDanielthis novel explores three generations, beginning with Mazelle Washingtons life as a young actress. Fifty years after Mazelles death, Johnny will discover the secret she kept and nurtured since she was a child, when she had a dark wish come true.

A monster lurks outside Mazywood, hidden for generations, and Johnny brought his family to its hunting grounds.

Tananarive Dueis an American Book Award and NAACP Image Awardwinning author, who was an executive producer onHorror Noire: A History of Black Horrorfor Shudder and teaches Afrofuturism and Black Horror at UCLA. She and her husband, science fiction author Steven Barnes, cowrote the graphic novelThe Keeperand an episode for Season 2 ofThe Twilight Zonefor Paramount Plus and Monkeypaw Productions. Due is the author of several novels and two short story collections,Ghost Summer: StoriesandThe 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.

• Publisher: S&S/Saga Press
• Publish Date: September 22, 2026
• Pages: 512
• Language: English
• Type: Hardcover
• EAN/UPC: 9781668075142
• Dimensions: 228.6 X 152.4 X 33.1 mm | 1.52 lbs
• BISAC Categories: Horror, Popular Fiction, Historical Fiction