The Ballad of the Black Tom

The Ballad of Black Tom Book Description: Shırley Jackson and BFA Best Novella Award. The Ballad of Black Tom, which is a rewriting of the story "The Terror at Red Hook" by HP Lovecraft, the master of horror literature, is both a tribute to an author who expresses his admiration for his idol, as well as a critical approach. contains. The doors of other worlds open to streets full of people who are not “White Americans.” The Sleeping King is waking up. New York. 1924. Charles Thomas Tester is a twenty-year-old young man who does intriguing work to make ends meet and take care of his sick father. A black musician who walks the streets among white people with his guitar in his hand. But he doesn't know many songs, his voice isn't good, and he can't be said to play the guitar very well. To others, he is a fraud, but he sees what he does as "entertainment", but entertainment is only up to a certain point. The day is approaching when fear will wrap itself around the strings of his guitar. After getting a job delivering a book full of strange shapes to a mysterious woman and meeting a wealthy man named Robert Suydam and visiting his strange library, his life begins to fall apart. With the involvement of police officer Thomas F. Malone, who is interested in uncanny cases, Charles Thomas Tester, or his new name "Black Tom", finds himself in the heart of darkness. The Ballad of Black Tom is a story of cosmic horror that makes you question everyday reality. “A great example of what weird fiction can and should do.” Laird Barron “LaValle shows his genius as he turns Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos upside down.” Elizabeth Hand “LaValle creates social awareness by taking some of Lovecraft's literary elements and transforming them.” Diabolique Magazine (From the Promotional Bulletin)