Thirty-one new and established writers make their appearance in The Ghost-Eater and Other Stories, a collection compiled by Diane Awerbuck and edited by Louis Greenberg. Funny and sad and highly original, the stories in The Ghost-Eater and Other Stories are invested with the passion, truth and quirkiness of the newest New South Africa and gives readers a chance to gauge the newest authors writing in South Africa at the moment. Awerbuck, who is the author of the novels Gardening at Night and Home Remedies, and who teaches creative writing, says: “The stories that were coming out of the university creative writing class were good: funny and sad and highly original. They had the potential to be, because they were invested with the passion, truth and quirkiness of the newest New South Africa. They needed a wider audience, and the oxygen of the outside world.” Louis Greenberg, who is one part of the horror duo S.L. Grey, and whose new novel Dark Windows is due for publication in 2014, edited each story. Awerbuck explains that Greenberg’s editing offered “a rare chance for younger writers, whose meaty but messy first drafts are generally thrown to the public lions.” The Ghost-Eater and Other Stories offers these writers their first bite at the industry, and gives readers a chance to gauge the newest authors writing at the moment.