Ghostroots

'Thrilling and disturbing' (Financial Times)

By: 'Pemi Aguda

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Paperback | 5 June 2025 | Edition Number 1

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An electrifying, terrifying collection of literary horror stories from a prize-winning young star of Nigerian writing

A FINALIST FOR THE 2024 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD, THE PEN FAULKNER AWARD, THE LA TIMES ART SEIDENBAUM AWARD AND THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIONS YOUNG FICTION AWARD

SHORTLISTED FOR THE CAINE PRIZE FOR AFRICAN WRITING AND THE WORLD FANTASY AWARDS FOR BEST COLLECTION

A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE DAILY MAIL, ELLE, TIME MAGAZINE AND THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

'Thrilling and disturbing ... a triumph' Financial Times

'Excellently uncanny' Daily Mail

'Terrifying' TIME, 100 Must-Read Books of 2024

Exploring the dark borders between psychology and superstition, these feverishly imaginative stories of trauma, betrayal, terror and love lay bare the forces of myth, tradition, gender, sexuality and modernity in Nigerian society. Here are characters cursed by guilt, bound by the ties of ancestors and community; or enchanted by the allure of mysticism and would-be prophets. Powered by a deep empathy, and glinting with humour and insight, they announce a major new literary talent.

Industry Reviews

Magic and mayhem on the streets of Lagos .... thrilling and disturbing .... a triumph - Financial Times

The eerie and the everyday are perfectly aligned in these twelve stories set in the hustle and bustle of Lagos in Nigeria ... excellently uncanny - Daily Mail

An unsettling short story collection set in a mythical version of the author's homeland of Lagos, Nigeria. Terrifying - TIME, 100 Must-Read Books of 2024

Ghostroots is the kind of collection you dream of discovering and reading - from one of my favorite living writers - Jeff VanderMeer, author of Hummingbird Salamander

Wildly inventive and odd, but written with surgeonlike precision, [these stories] herald the arrival of a major voice in speculative fiction - New York Times Book Review, 100 Notable Books of 2024

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