The Ballad of Black Tom

One in all NPR‘s Finest Books of 2016, winner of the Shirley Jackson Award, the British Fantasy Award, the That is Horror Award for Novella of the 12 months, and a finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, World Fantasy, and Bram Stoker Awards

Individuals transfer to New York in search of magic and nothing will persuade them it is not there.

Charles Thomas Tester hustles to place meals on the desk, hold the roof over his father’s head, from Harlem to Flushing Meadows to Crimson Hook. He is aware of what magic a swimsuit can forged, the invisibility a guitar case can present, and the curse written on his pores and skin that draws the attention of rich white people and their cops. However when he delivers an occult tome to a reclusive sorceress within the coronary heart of Queens, Tom opens a door to a deeper realm of magic, and earns the eye of issues finest left sleeping.

A storm which may swallow the world is constructing in Brooklyn. Will Black Tom reside to see it break?

“LaValle’s novella of sorcery and skullduggery in Jazz Age New York is a powerful instance of what bizarre fiction can and may do.”
― Laird Barron, writer of The Lovely Factor That Awaits Us All

“[LaValle] reinvents outmoded literary conventions, significantly the ghettos of style and ethnicity that lengthy divided critical literature from in style fiction.”
― Reward for The Satan in Silver from Elizabeth Hand, writer of Radiant Days

“LaValle cleverly subverts Lovecraft’s Cthulhu mythos by imbuing a black man with the ability to summon the Outdated Ones, and creates real chills along with his evocation of the monstrous Sleeping King, an echo of Lovecraft’s Dagon… [The Ballad of Black Tom] has a satisfying slingshot ending.” – Elizabeth Hand for Fantasy & ScienceFiction