“Titan snaps up two new ‘terrifying’ books from ‘Queen of African horror’ Nuzo Onoh” – The Bookseller, august 2024
Titan Books has snapped up two “wild, terrifying and mind-boggling” supernatural horror novels by the “Queen of African horror” Nuzo Onoh.
Fiction editor-at-large, Cath Trechman, acquired world English-language rights (excluding West Africa), including audiobook, to two new novels by the recipient of the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievemen, Onoh via Bieke van Aggelen at African Literary Agency.
The first novel in the deal, Futility, is scheduled to be published in autumn 2025, followed by The Turning of Sally-Mae a year later.
The new novels are “fierce, funny, horrifying tales” of women seeking deadly supernatural vengeance on the men who have wronged them.
Onoh’s upcoming novel, Where the Dead Brides Gather, is due to be published in October 2024 by Titan Books.
Shigidi and the Brass Head of Olabufon by Wole Talabi (Gollancz, DAW Books, Masobe Books, 2023
2024 winners of the African Speculative Fiction Society’s Nommo Awards were announced today in a ceremony held during the Glasgow 2024 Worldcon. The awards were presented by Tendai Huchu, Wole Talabi, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, Nnedi Okorafor and awards sponsor Tom Ilube.
The African Speculative Fiction Society, composed of professional and semiprofessional African writers, editors, publishers, graphic artists and film makers, was founded in 2016.
The Nommos were presented for the first time in 2017. The awards are named for twins from Dogon cosmology who take a variety of forms, including appearing on land as fish, walking on their tails.
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Titan Books has snapped up two 'wild, terrifying and mind-boggling' supernatural horror novels by the 'Queen of African horror' Nuzo Onoh.