{"product_id":"9780765386618","title":"The Ballad of Black Tom","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eNPR\u003c\/i\u003e's Best Books of 2016, winner of the Shirley Jackson Award, the British Fantasy Award, the This is Horror Award for Novella of the Year, and a finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, World Fantasy, and Bram Stoker Awards\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeople move to New York looking for magic and nothing will convince them it isn't there.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCharles 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA storm that might swallow the world is building in Brooklyn. Will Black Tom live to see it break?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"LaValle's  novella of sorcery and skullduggery in Jazz Age New York is a  magnificent example of what weird fiction can and should do.\" \u003cbr\u003e— Laird Barron, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[LaValle]  reinvents outmoded literary conventions, particularly the  ghettos of  genre and ethnicity that long divided serious literature from  popular  fiction.\"\u003cbr\u003e— Praise for \u003ci\u003eThe Devil in Silver\u003c\/i\u003e from Elizabeth Hand, author of \u003ci\u003eRadiant Days\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e               “LaValle cleverly subverts Lovecraft’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… [\u003ci\u003eThe Ballad of Black Tom\u003c\/i\u003e] has a satisfying slingshot ending.” – Elizabeth Hand for \u003ci\u003eFantasy\u0026amp;ScienceFiction\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tor Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47122124013808,"sku":"9780765386618","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780765386618_p0.jpg?v=1763659730","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780765386618","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}