the GHOSTS of VELD: South African Folklore, Ghost Stories and Tales Unquiet Dead

The veld is still dark. Listen.A collection of South African folklore, ghost stories, and tales of the unquiet dead, farmhouses that wait, roads that still carry a dog, mines that change shift forty years after the shaft was sealed.Marno Swanepoel retells classic ghost stories from C. J. Langenhoven for English readers for the first time, then walks the country itself: Karoo haunted houses, Free State mealie fields, Bloedrivier, the Lange Kloof, a low-level bridge on the Olifants when the river is up.These are not jump-scare pages. They are folk horror and atmospheric literary horror: patient, local, unfinished. Some pieces come from older folklore. Some are classic ghost stories retold. Some began as talk on a stoep after dark. Some are original short stories written in the same register.For readers who want ghost stories for adults, a short story collection, haunted places, restless spirits, and supernatural hauntings that belong to a real landscape.There is no demand here that you believe. Only that you listen.