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The Ballad of Black Tom

Victor LaValle · 2016

149 pages

New York, 1924. Tommy Tester runs small errands and plays guitar for money, one of the few Black men willing to do business with a sorcerer. Hired by a strange wealthy man in Flatbush, he is drawn toward the Sleeping King and the Great Old Ones, and chooses what kind of power he is willing to serve.

Tropes

Cosmic, Forbidden Knowledge, Revenge, Morally Grey Character, Creeping Dread

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