The Ballad of Black Tom

This is a 149 page novella written by Victor LaValle. It’s a black man’s retelling of HP Lovecraft’s “Horror at Red Hook”. The setting is 1920s New York. The author did a great job at capturing how America was during the Jim Crow Era. It has a historical feel to it. I felt like I was walking down the street with Charles Thomas Tester. No spoilers, but I’ll tell you this. Half the book is told from one character, the second half is told from another. This book was amazing. I put it in the same category as Ring Shout by P. Djeli Clark.