Aboard the ship, the angry spirit of an unborn child, an ogbanje, motivates her father to action. The Twelfth House by Robert de la Chevotière is out August 25, 2026, from Erewhon Books, and Reactor shared an excerpt from the novel. I was not born yet when I watched my father walk the beach in Dahomey for the last time. I had willed him into the ire of hell, and no star, no matter how luminescent its dust, could protect him. He wished for the shadows to take on life forms and step out from the thick bush and vegetation.