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Fortunately, we are not reviewing that story here. The story in question is ‘The Horror at Red Hook’. Especially when his tale takes one of Lovecraft’s most notorious stories and completely flips it over and inside out, effectively setting things right while scaring the hell out of readers. Lovecraft, his contemporaries and present-day writers, it would be ludicrous not to mention him here where it concerns LaValle’s tale. While our focus here is exploring the writers before and beyond H.P. Perhaps directly referencing is saying it lightly. Author of The Ecstatic, Big Machine, Slapboxing with Jesus, The Devil in Silver, and the forthcoming The Changeling, LaValle’s novella, The Ballad of Black Tom securely placed him in the line of sight of those who love weird fiction while directly referencing his influences head-on. LaValle’s been in the scene for a while, primarily writing hard-to-classify novels that cross the bridge between weird and horror, while maintaining a strong literary aesthetic throughout. If there is one name that pops up lately on the radar when it comes to weird fiction, Victor LaValle’s name is one seen repeatedly.
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