{"product_id":"the-ballad-of-black-tom-victor-lavalle","title":"The Ballad of Black Tom: Victor LaValle","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOne of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eNPR\u003c\/em\u003e's Best Books of 2016, winner of the Shirley Jackson Award, the British Fantasy Award, the This is Horror Award for Novella of the Year, and a finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, World Fantasy, and Bram Stoker Awards\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePeople move to New York looking for magic and nothing will convince them it isn't there.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCharles 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. 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. But when he delivers an occult tome 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA storm that might swallow the world is building in Brooklyn. Will Black Tom live to see it break?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"LaValle's novella of sorcery and skullduggery in Jazz Age New York is a magnificent example of what weird fiction can and should do.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e— Laird Barron, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"[LaValle] reinvents outmoded literary conventions, particularly the ghettos of genre and ethnicity that long divided serious literature from popular fiction.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e— Praise for \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Devil in Silver\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e from Elizabeth Hand, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eRadiant Days\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“LaValle cleverly subverts Lovecraft’s Cthulhu mythos by imbuing a black man with the power to summon the Old Ones, and creates genuine chills with his evocation of the monstrous Sleeping King, an echo of Lovecraft’s Dagon… [\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Ballad of Black Tom\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e] has a satisfying slingshot ending.” – Elizabeth Hand for \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eFantasy \u0026amp; ScienceFiction\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Macmillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49045153022198,"sku":"9780765387868","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0682\/6819\/6086\/files\/Untitleddesign_4_82da2a90-de9c-4fca-ac9e-f78f47534719.png?v=1757093947","url":"https:\/\/www.beastlybooks.live\/products\/the-ballad-of-black-tom-victor-lavalle","provider":"Beastly Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}