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Much like Lovecraft Country, the stories combine horror and fantastical elements with anti-racist themes. These ten immersive stories embrace multiple speculative genres and take place in worlds both real and unreal. In the title story “Reconstruction” - one of two stories original to the collection - Sally uses her grandmother’s spells to help protect a Black Civil War regiment while meditating on anger. This theme of resilience in inhumane conditions continues throughout the collection. Key is a human caretaker doing what she can to survive in a world where hope and integrity are seemingly impossible. The first story in this collection, the Nebula award-winning “A Guide to the Fruits of Hawai’i,” opens in a prison where vampire conquerors imprison humans to feast upon. Reconstruction: Stories by Alaya Dawn Johnson Get it from Barnes and Noble or your local independent bookstore. Black Tom agrees, and when the party reveals monsters from another dimension, he sees a way to revenge himself on the racists of his world. After delivering a grimoire to a sorceress in Queens, a white man asks him to play guitar for a ludicrous sum at a house party. Charles Thomas Tester - Black Tom - makes a living in 1920s Harlem by playing guitar on the street and doing odd side jobs. Lovecraft’s short story “The Horror at Red Hook,” this novella grapples with the racist legacy of H.P. If you appreciate good literature, be sure to check out the other Tacet Books titles!īonus content: Notes on Writing Weird Fiction.The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValleīased on H.P. Works selected for this book: - The Call of Cthulhu īonus content: Notes on Writing Weird Fiction. Burroughs, Neil Gaiman and Jorge Luis Borges. Howard, Robert Bloch, Fritz Leiber, Ramsey Campbell, Bentley Little, Joe R. Giger, Joyce Carol Oates, Michel Houellebecq, August Derleth, Robert E. Lovecraft has influenced many great writers and creative minds like Stephen King, Guillermo del Toro, Clive Barker, John Carpenter, Mike Mignola, Ridley Scott, H. This selection chosen by the critic August Nemo, reveals the mesmerizing narrative style of the visionary american writer. Lovecraft created a new brand of horror, discarding ghosts and witches and instead unleashing nightmarish fiends to whom mankind is a hapless tiny spot of dwindling sanity in a malevolent universe.

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