Across diverse African traditions, the spiritual world is not distant. Ancestors, spirits, and unseen forces coexist with the living. Horror emerges when that balance fractures — through betrayal, broken taboos, colonial rupture, or moral decay.

Unlike Western horror, which often fears the supernatural as intrusion, many African narratives treat it as structure. The danger lies in disrespect, imbalance, corruption of sacred order.

The horror warns: The unseen world is not myth. It is infrastructure.