Fantasy Horror 2016

Ballad of Black Tom by Victor D. LaValle

Published in Spanish as La balada de Tom el Negro

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…

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What it is

A myth or a classic told anew · properly scary

What happens in it

Retelling

Reading sheet

How it's told

Who tells it
A narrator who knows it all
Its world
A touch of the supernatural

Before you pick it up

Is it for you?

It's for you if…

  • you like an old story told again
  • you want to be properly scared
  • you're drawn to the dark side of people

Maybe not if…

  • you're after something comforting
  • you'd rather skip the hard scenes

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Cosmic horror where knowing is the wound

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