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  • Bibliography:
    11 Books
  • First Book:
    July 2014
  • Latest Book:
    October 2025
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Book List in Order: 11 titles



  • A scorned wife returns to wreak a terrible vengeance on the husband and mistress that caused her untimely death A morgue assistant fails to follow the strange night-time rules of the mortuary and gets himself "a follower," the restless spirit of a m...



  • Oja-ale is the night market run by the dead. Everything can be bought for a deadly price. Alan Pearson is a sceptical British diplomat, contemptuous and dismissive of native superstitions...Until the day he receives a terrifying purchase from the Nig...



  • An innocent boy is lured to his death by the one person that should have protected him. Someone knows the truth about his disappearance; his little sister, Obele, a child that hears a secret voice which tells her terrible things no child should know ...



  • How do you bury a corpse that refuses to die?

    The first time she died, Aku didn’t realise she was dead. She thought she was suffering a nightmare, at worst, a supernatural attack by malevolent spirits, inconvenient but not life-threatening...



  • A dead child is cast into the evil forest by the clansmen in a burial ritual steeped in dark superstitions. His grieving mother, Desee, resorts to desperate and terrifying measures to bring him back to life. Desee's quest will force her to make some ...



  • On a moon-lit night, Diké , heir to the Kingdom and leader of the terrifying warrior cult, the Ogwumii, falls asleep inside his bedroom. He wakes up to find himself trapped within the secret shrine of the village deity, a dark cave forb...



  • Climate change can be terrifying as we navigate through climate action— haunted by our past which dictates our future. In this anthology— Revelations: Horror Writers for Climate Action— twenty-one...



  • 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 a...



  • Recipient of the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement, a pioneer of the African horror literary genre, and hailed as the ‘Queen of African Horror’ Nuzo Onoh offers her most fantastical tale yet. The Fake Ghost is a dark farce and a ...






  • For readers of Oyinkan Braithwaite’s My Sister the Serial Killer and Bella Mackie’s How to Kill Your Family, this is a monstrous, gleeful, bitingly funny tale of murder, body-swapping and bloody vengeance from the recipient of the Bram St...



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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Nuzo Onoh has published 11 books.

The next book by Nuzo Onoh, Futility, will be published in October 2025.

The first book by Nuzo Onoh, The Reluctant Dead, was published in July 2014.

No. Nuzo Onoh does not write books in series.