Dubaku
by Edward M. Erdelac
eBook ISBN: 9781615720248
Price: $ 4.50
Genre: Horror
Sub Genre: Zombie
Novella of 14903 words
Sex rating: 1
Violence rating: 3
Edited by Lisa J. Jackson
Cover Artwork by Matt Truiano
Print ISBN: 9781615720231 Buy Here
About the book:
In 1760, somewhere near the Bight Of Benin, an African shaman belonging to an obscure interior tribe surrenders himself willingly to an English slaving expedition. This man, Dubaku, has come in search of his wife, abducted and sold to another party of whites. Not knowing one ship from another, Dubaku boards the slaver hoping to find her. The captain, a cruel and careless man named Bryce, mistrusts him immediately, and when a rampant sickness takes its toll on the superstitious crew and their human cargo midway through the voyage to Jamaica, Bryce decides to offer up Dubaku as their Jonah. After a violent squall drowns the entire compliment of would-be slaves, Dubaku calls upon dark and terrible powers to enact a fitting vengeance on Captain Bryce and his men.
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The hatches were thrown back yawning, and for the Aja it was terrifying - like the wooden maw of a creaking, big bellied sea beast waking to swallow them whole. This beast breathed out a hot blast of putrid stink, the noisome smell of sweat and excrement and death and sickness, like the breath of some pestilential entity native to the inferno.
There was no light down below, only the whale oil lamps the sailors lit and carried with them.
Waves of them were force-fed into the ship’s groaning timber bowels. The swinging light of the lamps cast a faltering glow on the floor, which was carpeted in row upon row of swooning black bodies. They tread upon the bare skin of exhausted figures who recoiled at their touch or else lay in the stiff cold of death, bones snapping beneath their weight. Women whimpered and clutched at each other, and the weeping of the children was redoubled.
What was this strange precinct of hell into which they had been brought?
External Reviews:
| Monster Librarian | "...Edward M. Erdelac invokes the dark elements of voodoo intermixed with zombies to create a dark, foreboding, and terrifyingly gruesome... |
| Teagan S. Boyd at Book Wenches | "Mr. Erdelac has a talent for grabbing the reader’s attention and keeping them engrossed throughout his story." |
| The Horror Fiction Review | "Erdelac's voodoo-tinged revenge tale features some gritty depictions of slave life, loads of gruesome violence, and a "Death Ship" scenario |
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