My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, Amos Tutuola's second novel, was first published in 1954. It tells the tale of a small boy who wanders into the heart of a fantastical African forest, the dwelling place of innumerable wild, grotesque and terrifying beings. He is captured by ghosts, buried alive and wrapped up in spider webs, but after several years he marries and accepts his new existence. With the appearance of the television-handed ghostess, however, comes a possible route of escape.
'Tutuola ... has the immediate intuition of a creative artist working by spell and incantation.' V. S. Pritchett, New Statesman
- ISBN10 0571058671
- ISBN13 9780571058679
- Publish Date 1 January 1973 (first published 1 August 1962)
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 28 June 2014
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Faber & Faber
- Format Paperback
- Pages 176
- Language English