Zig Zag Zig: The Ballad of Black Tom

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It's existential horror time!!

This week we get into Victor LaValle's 2016 novella, "The Ballad of Black Tom," a retelling of H.P. Lovecraft's shockingly racist (and honestly boring) short story, "The Horror at Red Hook." And yes, we read the original short story too so you don't have to.

The Shelfers discuss Lovecraft adaptions that deal with his legacy (and all that entails,) the inevitability of resistance against oppression, and why Cthulhu is way less scary than the NYPD.

Tune in next week for, "The Crab Cannery Ship" by Kobayashi Takiji!

Episode art from the novel's cover, music by Kevin MacLeod.

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