WHERE THE DEAD BRIDES GATHER

286pp., paperback, Titan Books, London, 2024

ISBN: 9781835410561

Supernatural horror novel set in Nigeria.

Bata receives secret powers that enable her to fight a vengeful ghost-bride threatening a cousin who is soon to be married.

“Nuzo Onoh is a wordsmith who has earned the moniker 'The Queen of African Horror'. Where the Dead Brides Gather is a creepy, well-crafted thrill ride powered by Nigerian mythology, haunting imagery and an unforgettable protagonist’s otherworldly nightmares inextricably woven with her deeply human heart.” Tananarive Due, author of The Reformatory

“Nuzo Onoh masterfully embosses her signature as the ‘Queen of African Horror’ in Where the Dead Brides Gather’s sorcerous fest. She effortlessly cartwheels into the unformed mind of a haunted but gifted child in the mesmerism of a cross-cultural story entombed in numinous possession and the most haunting form of African divination. A sinister and gripping tale of spectral inhabitation by one of the craftiest horror writers of our time.”
Eugen Bacon, author of An Earnest Blackness and Danged Black Thing

Nuzo Onoh is a Nigerian-British writer of Igbo descent. Born in Nigeria in 1962, she was a child refugee during the Biafra War and movied to the UK as a teenager to study at a Quaker boarding school. The recipient of the 2022 Bram Stoker Lifetime Achievement Award, she is the author of the short story collections  The Reluctant Dead and Unhallowed Graves, and the novels The Sleepless, Dead Corpse, The Unclean and A Dance for the Dead. She lives in the West Midlands.