Carroll, Rick Sternbach, Steven Barnes, Harry Turtledove,
Tananarive Due, Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff and Tim Powers.
"As a horror fan and creator, all of us are singing in the streets," says author and university lecturer
Tananarive Due.
Among the voices in the film are Candyman star Tony Todd, author and academic
Tananarive Due and The Craft actress Rachel True.
(6) For some further literary works that feature strong Black female characters and/or African settings, see the following: Octavia Butler, Wild Seed, Mind of My Mind, Parable of the Sower, and Parable of the Talents;
Tananarive Due's African Immortals series (My Soul to Keep (1997), The Living Blood (2001), Blood Colony (2008), and My Soul to Take (2011); Steven's Barnes's series Lion's Blood (2002) and Zulu Heart (2003); and Charles Saunders's Imaro series (Imaro (1981); The Quest for Cush (1984); The Trail of Bohu (1985); and The Naama War([2009).
In addition,
Tananarive is the previous name of Antananarivo, the capital of Madagascar.
Years before African-American authors such as Octavia Butler and
Tananarive Due began refashioning narratives of the undead with queer black female protagonists at their center, Jewelle Gomez pioneered what is now a recognizable vampire sub-genre with Gilda, the winner of two Lambda Literary Awards.
Delany, Charles Saunders and
Tananarive Due, I realized I could write it as well.
Division des Recherches Piscicoles, Centre Technique Forestier Tropical,
Tananarive, 30 pp.
(The recent anthology Octavio's Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements [2015] with its social justice bent, follows in her footsteps.) Today African American writers such as Jemisin, Andrea Hairston, and Tiphanie Yanique reimagine the past--as horror-novelists such as
Tananarive Due and the late LA Banks make us more aware of the dangers of the present.