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I'm Tears of Price coming to you from Book Riot.

This is episode 280.5, and this week I'm going to be diving into the stacks to talk about two great atmospheric October reads because I am so excited that October is here.

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Today's episode is brought to you by Source Books Casablanca. So Sam Becker likes his job, it's cool, it's fine, he manages a retail store. It's just that his boss is kind of annoying.

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Today's episode is brought to you by Gallery Books. I'm super excited to talk about this next one.

It is by an author who has been doing the darn thing for Black American fiction, horror fiction, for a while, Miss Tannanarive do. So it's titled The Reformatory and

it follows 12-year-old Robbie Stevens Jr. who was sentenced to six months at the Gracetown School for Boys which is you

guessed it a reformatory he sent there for kicking the son of the largest landowner in town

and offensive his older sister Gloria so begins Robbie's journey further into the

tears of the Jim Crow South and the very real horror of the school they call

the Reformatory. So the Reformatory is a haunting work of historical fiction, written as only American book award-winning author Tanoniriv Duke could.

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