The Ballad of Black Tom

Victor LaValle author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Transworld Publishers Ltd

Publishing:17th Sep '26

£9.99

This title is due to be published on 17th September, and will be despatched as soon as possible.

The Ballad of Black Tom cover

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?

Ingenious... darkly witty... The writing is full of rage and passion: love for the vanished culture of 1920s Harlem and love — conflicted — for crazy Lovecraft. * New York Times *

ISBN: 9781804999899

Dimensions: 198mm x 127mm x 15mm

Weight: 200g

144 pages