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Post by cauldronbrewer on Apr 26, 2018 18:05:11 GMT
Both Lovecraft fans and Lovecraft haters may find something to like about Victor LaValle's short novel, The Ballad of Black Tom (2016, tor.com). It takes one of HPL's worst--and most racist--stories, "The Horror at Red Hook," and turns it inside out. I think the first section (which follows the perspective of a Harlem guitarist who becomes entangled in cosmic horror) is stronger than the second (which follows the detective hero of the original story), but two parts combine at the end in a satisfying way. From an NPR interview in which LaValle discusses the book's origin: All of this led to The Ballad of Black Tom, which works both as a tribute to and critique of Lovecraft--a neat trick.
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