The Book

Incredulous Moshoeshoe and the Lightning Bird
Nelson Mandela is about to die. Again. Black militants and white nationalists prepare for war as a politician’s daughter is killed in mysterious circumstances. Incredulous Moshoeshoe—Goth DJ and part-time isangoma—is hired to find out what really happened.
Forced to partner with a tragically uncool white Pentecostal preacher, Incredulous must use his knowledge of local lore, his occult powers and his connections in the alternative scene to prevent a South African civil war.
Incredulous Moshoeshoe and the Lightning Bird is like Frank Peretti making out with Samuel L Jackson at a Black Panther rally / revival meeting. It’s Dracula for DJs, Supernatural for the subcontinent, The Number One Goth Divination Agency nobody asked for but everybody deserves. It’s Afrocentric urban fantasy littered with onyx Easter-egg homages to horror classics, and monsters as fresh as a highveld thunderstorm.
If you love music, myth, and mad stories, you’re gonna like this book. And if you want more Africa in your urban fantasy, you might just love it.
It also has a table of contents you can listen to (non-Goths look away now):
African folklore has monsters and myths as rich and exciting as anything Europe has given us. Incredulous Moshoeshoe and the Lightning Bird is a loving attempt to bring some of them into a more contemporary space in the broader cultural imagination. Mostly because they’re fucking cool.
And if you like Incredulous, check out the other wild and wonderful authors on Montag Press.
The Author
JW Langley grew up privileged and dissenting in Apartheid South Africa, raised by parents so tolerant and liberal they left him no choice but to become a Christian. This act of rebellion coincided with reading Literature, Psychology and Philosophy at university – subjects he neglected in favour of playing alternative music on the radio and in nightclubs. In 2004 he travelled to the United Kingdom for a year – and sort of forgot to leave. He has worked as a writer and manager at a 200-year-old missionary society, written for religious and political publications in print and online, and has had his poetry published by The Rialto and Rattle. All of these were better than his first jobs offering free samples in supermarkets and working in a CD store. None of them were as good as being a DJ. He currently identifies as a straight male communist, but nothing lasts forever.

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Contact
If you enjoyed Incredulous Moshoeshoe and the Lightning Bird I’d love to hear from you. Please drop me a line! If you didn’t enjoy it, I guess you can still get in touch to help me do better next time. But I warn you. If you come at me guns blazing, you will leave me no choice but to cry. Ideas for future themes, monsters and musical genres welcome.
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