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- ISBN 9781835419342
- Weight: 255g
- Dimensions: 130 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 22 Sep 2026
- Publisher: Titan Books Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
A leading voice in Black speculative fiction for more than 20 years, Tananarive Due has won an American Book Award, an NAACP Image Award, and a British Fantasy Award, and her writing has been included in best-of-the-year anthologies. Her books include The Reformatory (winner of a Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Chautauqua Prize, Bram Stoker Award, Shirley Jackson Award, World Fantasy Award, and a New York Times Notable Book), The Wishing Pool and Other Stories, Ghost Summer: Stories, My Soul to Keep, and The Good House. She and her late mother, civil rights activist Patricia Stephens Due, co-authored Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights.
She was an executive producer on Shudder's groundbreaking documentary Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror. She and her husband/collaborator, Steven Barnes, recently co-directed a short film horror film, "The Keeper." They also wrote "A Small Town" for Season 2 of Jordan Peele's "The Twilight Zone," and two segments of Shudder's anthology film Horror Noire.
