Title: The Ballad of Black Tom

Title: The Ballad of Black Tom Title Record # 1948877
Author: Victor LaValle
Date: 2016-02-16
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novella
Series: Cthulhu Mythos short fiction
Language: English
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Year	Language	Title
2017^ⓘTranslated by Laura Sestri	Italian	La ballata di Black Tom
2018^ⓘTranslated by Benoît Domis.	French	La ballade de Black Tom
2018^ⓘTranslated by Petê Rissatti.	Portuguese	A Balada do Black Tom

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
The Ballad of Black Tom	2016-02-16	Victor LaValle	Tor.com	978-0-7653-8786-8	$12.99^?$: US dollar	151	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	chap	Robert Hunt (artist)
The Ballad of Black Tom	2016-02-16	Victor LaValle	Tor.com	978-0-7653-8661-8	$2.99^?$: US dollar		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	chap
The Ballad of Black Tom	2016-02-16	Victor LaValle	Tor.com	978-0-7653-8786-8	$12.99^?$: US dollar	151	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	chap	Robert Hunt (artist)
Bundle 5	2016-04-12	ed. uncredited	Tor.com	978-0-7653-9200-8	$6.99^?$: US dollar		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	anth
Tor.com Collection: Season Two	2016-08-30	ed. uncredited	Macmillan Audio				digital audio download^?Digital recording in any format that is downloaded directly from the Internet. This category includes podcasts.	anth
Tor.com Publishing's 2017 Hugo Finalist Bundle	2017-05-15	ed. uncredited	Tor.com	978-1-250-17331-7	$19.99^?$: US dollar		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	anth
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2017	2017-07-04	ed. Paula Guran	Prime Books	978-1-60701-493-5	$19.95^?$: US dollar	527	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	anth	Breakermaximus
Reimagining Lovecraft: Four Tor.com Novellas	2017-10-10	ed. Kij Johnson, Cassandra Khaw, Caitlín R. Kiernan^?Caitlin R. Kiernan , Victor LaValle	Tor.com	978-1-250-16707-1	$12.99^?$: US dollar		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	anth
Tor.com Publishing Editorial Spotlight #3: A Selection of Novellas	2019-03-12	ed. Ellen Datlow	Tor.com	978-1-250-23231-1	$11.99^?$: US dollar		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	anth
The Ballad of Black Tom	2022-09-06	Victor LaValle	Tor.com	978-1-250-81755-6	$19.99^?$: US dollar	160	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	chap

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Review by Gary K. Wolfe (2016) in Locus, #661 February 2016
Review by Elizabeth Hand (2016) in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May-June 2016
Review by Vajra Chandrasekera (2016) in Strange Horizons, 23 May 2016
Review by Terrence Rafferty (2016) in The New York Times Book Review, June 5, 2016
Review by David Simms (2017) in Cemetery Dance, #76, 2017
Review by Tom Feller (2017) in Tightbeam, #280

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