The Ballad of Black Tom Audiobook (Free)

People proceed to New York searching for magic and nothing at all will convince them it isn’t there.

Charles Thomas Tester hustles to place food up for grabs, keep the roofing over his father’s mind, from Harlem to Flushing Meadows to Red Hook. He understands what magic a fit can ensemble, the invisibility a electric guitar case can provide, as well as the curse created on his black skin that attracts the eye of rich white people and their qualified cops. But when he delivers an occult web page to a reclusive sorceress in the heart about The Ballad of Dark Tom of Queens, Tom starts a door to a deeper world of magic, and earns the interest of things best left sleeping.

A storm that might swallow the world is building in Brooklyn. Will Dark Tom live to view it break?

“LaValle cleverly subverts Lovecraft’s Cthulhu mythos by imbuing a black man with the power to summon the Aged Types, and creates real chills along with his evocation of the monstrous Sleeping King, an echo of Lovecraft’s Dagon… [The Ballad of Black Tom] has a satisfying slingshot closing.” – Elizabeth Hands for Fantasy & ScienceFiction

‘[LaValle] reinvents outmoded literary conventions, specially the ghettos of genre and ethnicity that long divided serious literature from well-known fiction.’

–Praise for The Devil in Metallic from Elizabeth Hands, author of Radiant Days