Mazywood
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Titan Books Ltd
Publishing:22nd Sep '26
£9.99
This title is due to be published on 22nd September, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
From the Bram Stoker, World Fantasy and Los Angeles Times Book Prize winning author of The Reformatory.
A gripping and thrilling supernatural horror and family saga about Mazelle Washington, a child star of 1920s Hollywood, and the legacy of her wishes generations later.
1926, Gracetown, Florida.
A young Mazelle sets out from her Florida home to find the Wishing Pool, and make her wish for a better life. A best friend forever, who will love her better than anyone else.
When Scout the Wonder Dog appears, it seems her wish has come true, and she is suddenly a star of the silver screen, her entire family lifted from poverty.
Johnny Washington, Mazelle's grandson, late in his screenwriting career, needs a break after a major project falls through. So he takes his wife and daughters out to Mazywood, the remote retreat he inherited from his grandmother.
But wishes are tricky things, and fame isn't always fortune. Hidden in the forest around Mazywood is a legacy of pain and sorrow, of a family turned against itself by legacies of racism.
As they uncover Mazelle's lost legacy, a terrifying creature stalks the woods, and Johnny and his family are thrust into a desperate fight for survival in the icy wilderness around Mazywood.
PRAISE FOR THE REFORMATORY
World Fantasy Award Winner, 2024 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner, 2024
You're in for a treat. The Reformatory is one of those books you can't put down. Tananarive Due hit it out of the park.
-Stephen King
The Reformatory is a masterpiece-a new American classic of the uncanny. I was gripped from the first lines to the catch-your-breath desperation of the final pages. Even in the tale's grimmest moments, Tananarive Due insists on the almost supernatural power of simple kindness. You have to read this book.
-Joe Hill, New York Times bestselling author of The Fireman and Heart-Shaped Box
So heart-smashingly good, it made me late for work. I couldn't stop reading. I needed to find out what was going to happen next, and next, and next.
-Randy Boyagoda, The New York Times
The writing here is spectacular; the pacing, engrossing; the setting, heartbreaking but honest; and the characters are given a nuance and depth rarely seen . . . A masterpiece of fiction.
-Library Journal, starred review
Haunting, atmospheric, and tightly plotted, this novel will linger in your mind long after you turn the last page.
-- Crimereads.com, The Best Crime Novels of 2023
A masterpiece of fiction, this novel speaks to all situations where injustice occurs, and compels its readers to act.
-Library Journal, Best Horror of 2023
With fully realized characters and well-placed twists, Due ratchets up the tension until the final, extraordinary showdown.
-Booklist, starred review
A vividly realized page-turner, which is at once an ingenious ghost story, a white-knuckle adventure, and an illuminating if infuriating look back at a shameful period in American jurisprudence.
-Kirkus Reviews, starred review
Deeply personal and empathetic, it's one of the most tragic and moving horror novels put to page, and will leave you emotionally devastated, in addition to simply scared.
-Comics Beat on The Reformatory
ISBN: 9781835419342
Dimensions: 198mm x 130mm x 55mm
Weight: 255g
512 pages