The Ballad of Black Tom

by Victor LaValle

Book Overview

One of NPR '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 People move to New York looking for magic and nothing will convince them it isn't there. Charles Thomas Tester hustles to put food on the table, keep the roof over his father's head, from Harlem to Flushing Meadows to Red...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0765387867
• ISBN13: 9780765387868
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: Tordotcom
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.9" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

Easy read

This is a short but good book. You get pulled in quickly and it goes really fast.

Good dark creepiness

I can't compare this to the original story as I try to read Lovecraft as little as possible. That said I am glad I went in without knowing much about the original! I much preferred the first half of the story to the second half, as I found Tommy to be a much more sympathetic character, but both halves were excellent. I enjoyed the descriptions of Suydam's house.