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Tagged: Novella

An imagined Greenwich Village courtyard lies beneath an exaggerated, looming night skyline.
Literature

The Ballad of Black Tom

The Ballad of Black Tom revisits The Horror at Red Hook through Charles Thomas Tester, a Black New Yorker whose encounter with occult power follows more familiar experiences of exclusion, exploitation and violence. Victor LaValle retains a supernatural catastrophe while changing whose life gives that catastrophe meaning.

4 min read · 747 words

Cats occupy the old streets of an imagined Ulthar beneath amber lamps.
Literature

The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe

The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe revisits Lovecraft’s Dreamlands through an experienced woman whose journey begins with responsibility for a student and develops into a reconsideration of her own life. Kij Johnson uses familiar geography as the setting for a new quest, with different social stakes and a different relationship to the waking world.

4 min read · 704 words

Literature

The Great God Pan

Arthur Machen’s novella connects an experiment on human perception with a series of deaths and disappearances in Victorian society. Its central figure, Helen Vaughan, is reconstructed through reports, portraits, aliases and frightened witnesses. The final documents connect her birth to a breach between ordinary existence and an overwhelming spiritual reality. The work is a major predecessor of Lovecraft’s horror of forbidden knowledge and inhuman parentage.

11 min read · 2,117 words