The first three stories form a mini-cycle centered around the odd burg of Gracetown, Florida. The wait for such a milestone volume was well worth it, since the book holds a treasure trove of scary and touching tales.
Moving at a deliberate yet hardly Robert-Reed-level pace, she has since accumulated the fifteen stories that grace her impressive first collection. (Not to mention a recent star turn hosting the Hugo Awards.) But curiously enough, given the old paradigms of apprenticeship that once dominated the field, she did not begin publishing short fiction until five years into her career, with three stories appearing at last in the year 2000. In those two decades she has firmly established herself as an inventive, accomplished fabulist at longer lengths, as well as a creator of mainstream fictions and mysteries, some done collaboratively with her husband, Steve Barnes.
This year marks the twentieth anniversary of Tananarive Due’s first book, The Between. Ghost Summer: Stories, by Tananarive Due ( Prime Books 978-1-60701-453-9, $15.95, 336pp, trade paperback) September 2015
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