The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe by Kij Johnson
Get it from Bookshop, Target, or your local independent bookstore. It brings many of the same themes from Lovecraft Country into a modern setting. Jemisin’s writing is immersive and captures New York City’s richness, diversity, stubbornness, and independence. The woman in white utilizes the racist anger of alt-right groups to attack each borough. These avatars must team up to destroy the woman in white, a primordial, multidimensional evil that seeks to destroy cities as they’re born. It’s not the first city to do so, but it is unique in that it chooses human avatars for each of its boroughs that encapsulate each area’s personality.
It’s based on her short story “The City Born Great” and imagines a New York City that literally comes to life, its midwife a starved graffiti artist. Jemisin’s The City We Became is a masterpiece of eldritch urban fantasy, a glorious annihilation of the racism in H.P. Recent MacArthur Genius Grant winner N.K.
Much like Lovecraft Country, the stories combine horror and fantastical elements with anti-racist themes. These ten immersive stories embrace multiple speculative genres and take place in worlds both real and unreal. In the title story “Reconstruction” - one of two stories original to the collection - Sally uses her grandmother’s spells to help protect a Black Civil War regiment while meditating on anger. This theme of resilience in inhumane conditions continues throughout the collection. Key is a human caretaker doing what she can to survive in a world where hope and integrity are seemingly impossible. The first story in this collection, the Nebula award-winning “A Guide to the Fruits of Hawai’i,” opens in a prison where vampire conquerors imprison humans to feast upon. Reconstruction: Stories by Alaya Dawn Johnson
Get it from Barnes and Noble or your local independent bookstore. Black Tom agrees, and when the party reveals monsters from another dimension, he sees a way to revenge himself on the racists of his world. After delivering a grimoire to a sorceress in Queens, a white man asks him to play guitar for a ludicrous sum at a house party. Charles Thomas Tester - Black Tom - makes a living in 1920s Harlem by playing guitar on the street and doing odd side jobs. Lovecraft’s short story “The Horror at Red Hook,” this novella grapples with the racist legacy of H.P. The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValleīased on H.P.
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