Due is married to author Steven Barnes, with whom she collaborates on screenplays. She and her late mother, civil rights activist Patricia Stephens Due, coauthored Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights. Her books include Ghost Summer: Stories, My Soul to Keep, and The Good House. A leading voice in Black speculative fiction for more than 20 years, Due has won an American Book Award, an NAACP Image Award, and a British Fantasy Award, and her writing has been included in multiple best-of-the-year anthologies. She is an executive producer on Shudder’s groundbreaking documentary Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror. Tananarive Due(tah-nah-nah-REEVE doo) is an award-winning author who teaches Black horror and Afrofuturism at UCLA. Written by masters of horror Tananarive Due and Steven Barnes and illustrated by Marco Finnegan, The Keeper reflects on the horror Black Americans face every day, while still staying true to the genre. As the Keeper begins to prey on the apartment building's other residents, Aisha and her friends must come together to destroy it. With her dying breath, she summons the dark spirit that has protected their family for generations to watch over Aisha.Īt first it seems that this spirit, whom Aisha refers to as the Keeper, is truly doing as her grandmother asked, caring for Aisha and keeping her safe however, it soon becomes clear that this being can only sustain itself by stealing life from others. However, shortly after moving in, Aisha's grandmother's health rapidly deteriorates. Her parents were killed in a car crash, and now she must move to decrepit and derelict Detroit to live with her ailing grandmother.
NAMED A BEST GRAPHIC NOVEL OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POSTĪ young Black girl finds herself trapped between desperation and her family’s dark history in this horror graphic novelĪisha has suffered a devastating loss.
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