My Soul to Keep

Truly.

She wrote The Between, The Good House, the whole African Immortal series, starting with My Soul to Keep, plus amazing short fiction like Ghost Summer and The Wishing Pool.

Pool.She is a master

Which is vital here because the subject matter she tackles in The Reformatory is incredibly heavy.

I think I, well, I started it.

I read like the title card, but it's Maisie Wood by Tanana Reap-Doo, who is another beloved horror author around here of books like The Good House, The Reformatory, My Soul to Keep.

This is a, actually it's a literary thriller and it's about a filmmaker who is the grandson of a really famous black actress whose career was kind of popping during the 20s to the 40s.

And so he returns to his grandmother's secluded cabin in the California mountains, a place called Maisywood, thinking it's going to be this really nice, quiet retreat.