A contemporary publishing editor wrestles with a missing final chapter and a real-life death tied to a recently published mystery novel.

A short, focused novella that focuses on a strained father–child relationship set against motifs of dance, clothing, and sleepwalking. The narrative applies fantastical or uncanny touches to private family dynamics and rites, creating a blend of cultural detail and subtle horror without sprawling plot breadth.

A linked memoir of personal and communal loss: the author recounts the deaths of five Black men connected to her across roughly four years and situates those deaths within family history, local conditions, and systemic forces.

A witch-centered children’s story that places a mother–child relationship at its core, exploring how familial duty, protection, and guidance play out against a backdrop of magic. The narrative sets a young character’s choices and emotional development against maternal influence and witchcraft-inflected conflict.

In Lagos, a practical older sister wrestles with protecting her younger, more glamorous sister after the younger woman repeatedly kills romantic partners. The central pressure is the older sister’s daily management of evidence, social optics, and her own conflicted devotion while fearing discovery and moral compromise.

A journalist-investigator pursues the murky death and legacy of a notorious film director whose work inspired a devoted, secretive subculture.

A young woman on a tight budget takes a cheap apartment and soon experiences strange, threatening phenomena that suggest the place itself — and those connected to it — endanger her.

Two young people from different social backgrounds form a fraught, recurring relationship from secondary school into university.

An investigation into nonhuman minds using cephalopods—especially octopuses—as a case study.