![]() ![]() ![]() Lovecraft’s story, The Horror at Red Hook, to explore horror tropes from the perspective of an African American protagonist living in a racist world. " reinvents outmoded literary conventions, particularly the ghettos of genre and ethnicity that long divided serious literature from popular fiction. In his fantasy/horror novella, The Ballad of Black Tom (2016), Victor LaValle reworks H.P. Laird Barron, author of The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All "LaValle's novella of sorcery and skullduggery in Jazz Age New York is a magnificent example of what weird fiction can and should do." ![]() But when he delivers an occult page to a reclusive sorceress in the heart of Queens, Tom opens a door to a deeper realm of magic, and earns the attention of things best left sleeping.Ī storm that might swallow the world is building in Brooklyn. He knows what magic a suit can cast, the invisibility a guitar case can provide, and the curse written on his skin that attracts the eye of wealthy white folks and their cops. People move to New York looking for magic and nothing will convince them it isn't there.Ĭharles Thomas Tester hustles to put food on the table, keep the roof over his father's head, from Harlem to Flushing Meadows to Red Hook. ![]()
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