The Ballad of Black Tom

The Ballad of Black Tom is a novella by Victor LaValle that retells H. P. Lovecraft's "The Horror at Red Hook" from a Black perspective. Published by Tor Books on February 16, 2016, it won the 2016 Shirley Jackson AwardShirley Jackson Award winners and the 2017 British Fantasy Award"2017 British Fantasy Awards Winners" at Locus, September 2, 2017. for best novella.
The novella was included in the Tor omnibus Reimagining Lovecraft.
== Synopsis==
The Ballad of Black Tom tells the story of Tommy Tester, a Harlem hustler and street musician recruited by Robert Suydam as part of a scheme to raise the Great Old Ones--a scheme Tester ultimately foils.
== Adaptations==
In 2017, AMC announced a television series adaptation of The Ballad of Black Tom, with LaValle as executive producer; as of January 2024, the series has not materialised The Ballad of Black Tom at Wikipedia.
==References==
Category:Victor LaValle works
Category:Expanded Mythos Works