Co-editors Eugen Bacon, Stephen Embleton and Cheryl S. Ntumy bring us a powerful and haunting collection of short stories from the groundbreaking Sauútiverse, following the success of Mothersound: The Sauútiverse Anthology.
Sauúti Terrors tells of the doomed, the damned, the shunned, the cunning, the destroyers, the noxious, and more, in the worlds of the living, the in-between and the dead.
Unravel the darkest stories in the deepest parts of the Sauúti five-planet system with its two suns, and orbiting a binary star.
Bringing together African and African diaspora writers, the collection features five-time Bram Stoker Award winner and recipient of the Bram Stoker Lifetime Achievement Award Linda D. Addison and other prominent speculative fiction authors, including T.L. Huchu, Xan van Rooyen, Jamal Hodge, Ishola Abdulwasiu Ayodele, Wole Talabi, Mazi Nwonwu, Kofi Nyameye, D.S. Falowo, Shingai Njeri Kagunda, J. Umeh, Moustapha Mbacké Diop, Miguel O. Mitchell, DaVaun Sanders and Nerine Dorman.
Genre Bender
Afrofuturistic, Dystopian, Black Speculative Fiction, Short Stories
About The Author
Eugen Bacon is an African Australian author. She is a Solstice, British Fantasy, Ignyte, Locus, Foreword Indies and BSFA Award winner. She’s also a twice World Fantasy and Shirley Jackson Award finalist, and a finalist in the Philip K. Dick Awards and the Nommo Awards for speculative fiction by Africans.
Eugen is an Otherwise Fellow, and was announced on the honor list for ‘doing exciting work in gender and speculative fiction’. Danged Black Thing made the Otherwise Award Honor List as a ‘sharp collection of Afro-Surrealist work’. Visit her at eugenbacon.com.
Cheryl S. Ntumy is a Ghanaian writer of speculative fiction, romance and YA. She is part of the Sauútiverse Collective, which created a shared universe for Afrocentric speculative fiction, and Petlo Literary Arts, a creative writing organisation in Botswana.
Her recent work includes the Sauútiverse novella Songs for the Shadows (Atthis Arts, 2024), the short story collection Black Friday and Other Stories from Africa (Flame Tree Press, 2025) and the Afrofantasy novel They Made Us Blood and Fury (Rosarium Publishers, 2026).
Stephen Embleton was born in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa and is a resident in Oxford, after his 2022 academic fellowship at the African Studies Centre, University of Oxford. His first short story was published in 2015 in the IMAGINE AFRICA 500 speculative fiction anthology, followed by the 2016 Edition of Aké Review, the debut edition of Enkare Review 2017 and more. He is a charter member of the African Speculative Fiction Society and its Nommo Awards initiative.
His then unpublished fantasy novel, Bones & Runes, was a finalist in the 2021 James Currey Prize for African Literature, and published in the UK in 2022. Stephen is the editor of the 2023 edition of the posthumously published final novel of Flora Nwapa, The Lake Goddess. Stephen’s academic essay, "Cosmologies and Languages Building Africanfuturism", appears in the Bloomsbury essay collection 'Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction'.
