The Ballad of Black Tom

Victor LaValle, Kevin R. Free

eAudio - 2016

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 black skin that attracts the eye of wealthy white folks and their trained cops. 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.A storm that might swallow the world is building in Brooklyn. Will Black Tom live to see it break?"LaValle cleverly subverts Lovecraft&...#039;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... [The Ballad of Black Tom] has a satisfying...

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Published
Macmillan Audio
Language
English
Main Authors
Victor LaValle, Kevin R. Free
Online Access
OverDrive Resource Page
Format
MP3 audiobook, OverDrive Listen audiobook
MP3 audiobook
File Size91 GB
Parts3
ISBN9781427273802
Release Date2/16/2016
OverDrive Listen audiobook
File Size91 GB
ISBN9781427273802
Release Date2/16/2016