The Ballad of Black Tom--the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, World Fantasy,
and Bram Stoker Award finalist and Shirley Jackson and British Fantasy
Award-winning excavation of Lovecraftian mythos by Victor LaValle--is
given new life in a brand-new hardcover edition.
"Full of rage and passion."--The New York Times
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 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.
A storm that might swallow the world is building in Brooklyn. Will Black
Tom live to see it break?