Victor LaValle

Monsters and Men: Empathy in Victor LaValle’s Ballad of Black Tom
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Monsters and Men: Empathy in Victor LaValle’s Ballad of Black Tom

What forces turn someone who is, for the most part, fundamentally good into something possibly evil? This question lies at the heart of much horror. In his novella The Ballad of Black Tom, reimagining characters from the weird fiction universe of HP Lovecraft, Victor LaValle answers that question.