Dusk to Dawn: Reading Horror and Weird Fiction
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Dusk to Dawn: Reading Horror and Weird Fiction
The Ballad of Black Tom
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Discussing The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle
New York bluesman Charles Thomas Tester gets caught up in the arcane while hustling wealthy white people to help support his father. But when he delivers an occult tome to a reclusive sorceress in the heart of Queens, Tommy Tester opens a door to a deeper realm of magic and earns the attention of things best left sleeping.
Next Up:
You Weren't Meant to Be Human – Andrew Joseph White
The Watchers – A.M. Shine
Victorian Psycho – Virginia Feito
Books Mentioned in this Episode:
The Horror at Red Hook; Dagon; The Shadow Over Innsmouth; The Call of Cthulhu – H.P. Lovecraft
Wolves of Winter – Dan Jones
Old Wounds – Logan-Ashley Kisner
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon – Stephen King
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History – Elizabeth Kolbert
Tao Te Ching – Lou Tzu, translated by Ursula K. Le Guin
James – Percival Everett
The Surprisingly Dreary Life of H.P Lovecraft
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