Download PDF Jackal Jackal: Tales of the Dark and Fantastic by Tobi Ogundiran
In "The Lady of the Yellow-Painted Library" -- featured in Levar Burton Reads -- a hapless salesman flees the otherworldly librarian hell-bent on retrieving her lost library book.
"The Tale of Jaja and Canti" sees Ogundiran riffing off of Pinocchio. But this wooden boy doesn't seek to become real. Wanting to be loved, he journeys the world in search of his mother-an ancient and powerful entity who is best not sought out.
"The Goatkeeper's Harvest" contains echoes of Lovecraft, where a young mother living on a farm finds that goats have broken into her barn and are devouring all her tubers. As she chases them off with a rake, a woman appears claiming the goats are her children, and that the young woman has killed one of them and must pay the a goat for a goat.
These and other tales of the dark and fantastic await.
“Superb weird-fantasy fictions… an unfailing capacity for surprise.”
“These stories will captivate readers with their haunting atmosphere, confident voice, and immersive settings.”
“ Jackal, Jackal is a great showcase of Ogundiran’s consistency and strengths of a storyteller and dark fabulist. Forget logic. These are stories you are meant to feel . Think Grimm by way of Amos Tutuola. Stephen King meets Cyprian Ekwensi.” “Ogundiran’s tales revel in small moments that create big ripples. Jackal, Jackal is a collection of such stories, characters grasping at a wish in their own unique, earnest way. An exciting yet intimate collection from a writer who continues to surprise and delight.”
“ Jackal, Jackal is an astonishing debut collection with real teeth.”