Caged Ocean Dub

“Dare Segun Falowo superbly crafts each story’s hook, entrancing and luring you into a dream . . .”

—Aurealis

“Falowo’s transporting debut collection combines the fantastical, the spiritual, and the everyday to vivid effect. A writer to watch."

—Publishers Weekly

“I would recommend this short story collection to anyone who is looking for a combination of weirdness, horror and poetry!”

—The British Fantasy Society

“With Caged Ocean Dub, Falowo shines a light into the darkness to reveal vast swathes of untrod narrative territory. Embracing folklore, realism, surrealism, science fiction and even poetry, Falowo’s fearless stories are electrifying, terrifying and a joyous reading experience.”

—Narrative Species

“These are stories that will transport you to changed versions of our world with exquisite prose. Familiar and not. Dark and beautiful and occasionally terrifying they run the gamut from dark fantasy to science fiction to cosmic horror.”

—Wole Talabi

“Dare’s work highlights Nigerian mundanities that we take for granted—buying a cold drink on the street, a mirror in traffic—and distorts them, defamiliarises them, until something true about the human experience—greed, grief, loneliness—is reflected back to us, indicting us. We can’t look away. With language that sparkles and terrifies, Dare’s enchanted, inventive stories blur and fracture the boundaries between the real and the tactile horrors of our fears.”

—‘Pemi Aguda