Started listening to a horror novel set in Jim Crow Florida, and I’m so tense and frightened before a single supernatural event has occurred! Because of course, it’s by Tananarive Due. She knows precisely what she’s doing, and what a landscape of terror she is writing about.
(The novel is The Reformatory, 2023, and it opens with a dedication to her great-uncle who died at a Florida reform school, whose name is also the first protagonist’s.)