The Ballad of Black Tom -

Victor LaValle

Tor.com

2022

160 páginas

5h 20m

ISBN-13: 9781250817556

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?

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"Qualquer dia desses, vou trazer Cthulhu para vocês, demônios."

Pegue o conto mais racista e xenofóbico de H. P. Lovecraft e transforme em uma história com crítica social e puro horror cósmico, é isso que Victor LaValle faz, dominando o tempo todo a narrativa e surpreendendo o leitor no momento certo.

Para quem curte esse gênero, A Balada do Black Tom é um banquete. O autor traz uma crítica incrível e uma história de terror de arrepiar.

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