Tananarive Due is an award-winning and bestselling author who teaches Black Horror and Afrofuturism at UCLA. Due has won an American Book Award, an NAACP Image Award, and a British Fantasy Award amongst others. She lives in Los Angeles.

Jim Crow Florida, 1950. Twelve-year-old Robert Stephens Jr., who for a trivial scuffle with a white boy is sent to The Gracetown School for Boys. But the segregated reformatory is a chamber of horrors, haunted by the boys that have died there.
In order to survive the school governor and his Funhouse, Robert must enlist the help of the school's ghosts - only they have their own motivations...