HAUNTED BY VENGEFUL GHOSTS, a young girl in rural Nigeria takes a supernatural journey into a special kind of afterlife and returns with incredible powers. Marvelously imagined tale of horror leavened by compassion and love. A MINUS
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/where-the-dead-brides-gather-nuzo-onoh/1144700862?ean=9781835410561
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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...
📚✨ Dive into ‘Nearly All The Men in Lagos Are Mad’ by Damilare Kuku, a gripping reflection on Lagos's realities. Themes: infidelity, healing, female empowerment. Full review on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts.
ADRIFT IN A NEARLY DESERTED VENICE in the early months of the 2020 pandemic, a writer contemplates his native Nigeria, his life in Detroit, his love of travel, but most of all his complicated family. Beautifully crafted prose, distinctive story. B PLUS
https://www.arcadiapublishing.com/collections/new-coming-soon/products/9781953368669
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As part of gradually relaunching my various things, the daily-ish story recs are also back.
Today on #BogiReads #ShortStories: Master of Ceremonies by Frances Ogamba in The Dark, May 2022!
https://www.thedarkmagazine.com/master-of-ceremonies/
Awesome Nigerian horror story about a mysterious microphone and the men holding it / beholden to it. Great language, ambience, genuinely spooky.
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Obiajulu suns his microphone for the funeral at Amesi. The instrument has grown weightier as if his words form invisible skin layers around it. Its original black colour now fluctuates, pocked in places to reveal a dermis of steel. He likes the windscreen best. It rubs his lips at ceremonies. The grating caress flips Obiajulu’s […]
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