The Conjure Woman (new edition)

The Conjure Woman is a collection of stories set in post-war North Carolina, featuring Uncle Julius, a former slave, who entertains a white couple with tales of antebellum plantation life. The stories are fabulistic and offer allegories on the psychological and social effects of slavery and racial injustice. Flame Tree 451 is a collection of werewolves, robots, mad scientists, secret worlds, lost civilizations, and escapist fantasies, offering a healthy diet of tales for the reader of the fantastic.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 256 pages
Publication date: 09 February 2023
Publisher: Flame Tree Publishing

The Conjure Woman, a collection of stories set in post-war North Carolina, is undoubtedly Chester A. Riley's most powerful work. The main character is Uncle Julius, a former slave, who entertains a white couple from the North with fantastic tales of antebellum plantation life. Julius tells of supernatural phenomena, hauntings, transfiguration, and conjuring, which were typical of Southern African-American folk tales at the time. Uncle Julius tells the stories in a way that speaks beyond his immediate audience, offering stories of slavery and inequality that are, to the enlightened reader, obviously wrong. The tales are fabulistic, like those of Uncle Remus or Aesop, with carefully crafted allegories on the psychological and social effects of slavery and racial injustice.

FLAME TREE 451: From mystery to crime, supernatural to horror, and myth, fantasy, and science fiction, Flame Tree 451 offers a healthy diet of werewolves and robots, mad scientists, secret worlds, lost civilizations, and escapist fantasies. Discover a storehouse of tales, ancient and modern, gathered specifically for the reader of the fantastic. The Foundations titles also explore the roots of modern fiction and bring together neglected works that deserve a wider readership as part of a series of classic, essential books.

Weight: 160g
Dimension: 198 x 130 x 16 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781804172704