The Ballad of Black Tom - Victor LaValle fiction Cassandra Khaw's dynamic and vibrant

Cassandra Khaw's dynamic and vibrant debut collection

Unknown even to herself

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

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

The Ballad of Black Tom - Victor LaValle fiction Cassandra Khaw's dynamic and vibrantPeople 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