The Ballad of Black Tom - Victor LaValle fiction a young couple discovers the

a young couple discovers the horror held within their newly purchased dream house

Larkin are her way in

turning comfort and joy into terror and dread

blinking eyes where the headlights of cars should be that tell him who to pull over

The Ballad of Black Tom - Victor LaValle fiction a young couple discovers thePeople 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