Book description
Following the hugely successful Black Sci-Fi Short Stories and Asian Ghost Short Stories, comes this deluxe edition of new African writing and tales rooted in ancient culture. This collection explores the deep-seated supernatural element in African storytelling - whether reaching back to the spirits, ancestors and ogres of folklore or…
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This book brings together a diverse cast of writers from Africa and the diaspora to explore spirits, ancestors, and folklore in eerie ghost stories from Africa.
It spotlights new, contemporary, and award-winning writers in their study of ancestral fear or veneration, and retellings or new craftings of gothic horror.
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