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The Ballad of Black Tom


A Horror Novel


Subgenres:

  • Cosmic Horror,
  • Urban Fantasy
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This book is for you if you're into...

  • Urban magic woven into 1920s New York neighborhoods
  • Horror stories where survival means hustling through racial tension
  • Occult mysteries that spiral into cosmic danger
Publisher Description

One of NPR'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.

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?.

At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

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