Now imagine crumpling the tape, so that many different points touch the same cotton ball.

Fold the Page, Fold the Space: Suydam's explanation for going Outside is: Imagine a cotton ball stuck to a strip of adhesive tape.

He has to douse his eyes with a solution throughout the day so they don't dry out. Now he has to wear tinted goggles, both to protect his eyes and to stop other people from having to see him.

Eye Scream: Black Tom cuts off Malone's eyelids.

Dramatic Drop: When Suydam takes a room in his mansion 'Outside,' the view from the window suddenly becomes the deep sea.

Lovecraft, with all my complicated feelings.

Commonality Connection: Suydam says he hired Tommy because it was obvious from his simple-minded guitar man act that he was familiar with illusion and artifice, like Suydam.

Brown Note: When Black Tom activates his powers, a low tone plays that makes everyone who hears it feel nauseous.

However, by choosing to play up his look, he can appeal to white people in other parts of the city who don't know any better.

Bavarian Fire Drill: Tommy is not a talented musician and would be laughed out of most establishments in Harlem that have much-much better musicians to choose from.

The Ballad of Black Tom contains examples of: But it turns out that what Suydam really wants is to awaken an Eldritch Abomination.

Shortly afterwards, reclusive millionaire Robert Suydam hires him to perform at a party. Tommy Tester, a young hustler living in Harlem with his ailing father Otis, is hired to deliver an occult tome to Ma Att, a sorceress living in Flushing Meadows. Lovecraft story ' The Horror At Red Hook' from the perspective of a black man.

The Ballad of Black Tom is a 2016 novella by Victor LaValle.

The ballad of black tom