My Bones and My Flute A Ghost Story in the Old-Fashioned Manner
"Amongst the barks of baboons and rustles of hidden creatures a group of town-dwellers confront the reality of evil and their own fallibilities in the remote Berbice forests of Guyana. Mittelholzer subtitled this 1955 novel "A Ghost Story in the Old-fashioned Manner", and though there is more than a hint of tongue-in-cheek in this thoroughly entertaining work, it rises to a pitch of genuine terror and has serious things to say about the need to exorcise the crimes of slavery and individual wickedness that still echo into the present. Edgar Mittelholzer was born in British Guiana in 1909. He published twenty-three novels and two works of non-fiction. He died in 1965, a suicide by fire predicted in several of his novels."