Ring Shout is as good a read as you can get, but it’s not a comfortable one: nor should it be. Djèlí Clark may have written a story to knock LaValle off the top of my list, though. I wrote a review some time back for MTR Network, which you can read here. LaValle retold the story from the viewpoint of a Black man and put right everything that was wrong about it. Lovecraft is well-known for his racism and xenophobia, and Red Rock is risible reading and is justifiably disdained.
By far my most favourite novella is Victor LaValle’s The Ballad of Black Tom, his revisionist and masterful retelling of HP Lovecraft’s short story The Horror at Red Rock. Every now and again I like to read novellas, and because my chosen genre within this format is invariably horror, science fiction, and fantasy, I always find I’ve a lot of titles to choose from. Djèlí Clark is an author I’m reasonably familiar with.
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