Nuzo Onoh is the 'Queen of African Horror' and she manages to create a mesmeric story of unfamiliar haunting in unchartered worlds. There is a summoning of gods and priestesses, and the appearance of ghost brides. Where the Dead Brides Gather is a sinister and gripping read.
A powerful Nigeria-set horror tale of possession, malevolent ghosts, family tensions, secrets and murder from the recipient of the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement and 'Queen of African Horror'. For readers of Octavia Butler, Ben Okri and Koji Suzuki.
Bata, a young girl tormented by nightmares, wakes up one night to find herself standing sentinel before her cousin's door. Her cousin is to get married the next morning, but only if she can escape the murderous attack of a ghost-bride, who used to be engaged to her groom.
A supernatural possession helps Bata battle and vanquish the vengeful ghost…
Commercial Book comprises 1,000-word stories, each based on the title of a song in the Resident's 1980 album, Commercial. Andrew Hook writes with a certain hooking dissonance in beautiful yet tragic slipstream tales that could sit well in the literary weird. There are outstanding stories of longing and mourning, betrayal and vengeance, irony and humour, and more.
This graphic novel is an adaptation of the titular gothic horror by Poppy Z. Brite, also filmed as 'The Hunger' Dream Sentinel. A spectral, entrapping protagonist allures the reader into a ghost story that's as powerful as it is poignant.
Graphic novel based on the story The Sixth Sentinel by Poppy Z. Brite.Hard luck Rosalie Smith lives by herself in the French Quarter of New Orleans, and she is not alone. With her multicoloured hair and kohl-smudged eyes, she strips for men at night and sleeps all day, and has nobody to welcome her home except the ghost who shares her apartment. But her spectral friend has more to offer than shadow touches and secrets shared in ghostly whispers. While she tends her sorrow over a tragic love lost and drowns her heart in whiskey bottles, he offers her a…
A Place Between Waking and Forgetting is dark speculative fiction, an Afro-Irreal collection in which transformative stories of culture, diversity, climate change, unlimited futures, collisions of worlds, mythology, and more, inhabit. It cases black people stories in bold and evocative text, at times deeply flawed but potentially redeemable protagonists in rich hues of blackness and light. Something beautiful, something dark in lyrical language packed with affection, dread, anguish and hope.
Featuring the World Fantasy Award finalist story “The Devil Don’t Come With Horns”, this collection of short stories is the latest offering by a genre-bending, multi-award winner.
It arrives with a poetic introduction by award-winning writer and poet Linda D. Addison, the first African-American recipient of the world-renowned HWA Bram Stoker Award, and who has received five awards for her collections.
