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Victor LaValle

Victor LaValle is the author of a short-story collection, Slapboxing with Jesus, four novels, The Ecstatic, Big Machine, The Devil in Silver & The Changeling, and two novellas, Lucretia and the Kroons and The Ballad of Black Tom. His most recent novel, THE CHANGELING, is an old school fairy tale. It's made to keep you up at night. It's meant to make you scared.

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The Ecstatic

The Ecstatic

Nightmare Magazine, Issue 100

Nightmare Magazine, Issue 100

with Maria Dahvana Headley, Orrin Grey, Desirina Boskovich and Terence Taylor

Lost in the Dark and Other Excursions

Lost in the Dark and Other Excursions

2025
Samotne kobiety

Samotne kobiety

2023
Lone Women

Lone Women

2023
Lolita in the Afterlife: On Beauty, Risk, and Reckoning with the Most Indelible and Shocking Novel of the Twentieth Century

Lolita in the Afterlife: On Beauty, Risk, and Reckoning with the Most Indelible and Shocking Novel of the Twentieth Century

2021

with Alexander Chee, Lauren Groff, Aleksandar Hemon, Lila Azam Zanganeh, Ian Frazier, Jim Shepard and Emily Mortimer

Wonder and Glory Forever

Wonder and Glory Forever

2020

with Nadia Bulkin, Molly Tanzer, Fred Chappell, Laird Barron and Livia Llewellyn

Wonder and Glory Forever: Awe-Inspiring Lovecraftian Fiction

Wonder and Glory Forever: Awe-Inspiring Lovecraftian Fiction

2020

with Nadia Bulkin, Molly Tanzer, Fred Chappell, Laird Barron and Livia Llewellyn

Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases

Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases

2020

with Jacqueline Woodson, Jonathan Lethem, Lauren Groff, Aleksandar Hemon, Salman Rushdie, Michael Cunningham, Louise Erdrich and Viet Thanh Nguyen

Daddy

Daddy

2019
Sunspot Jungle, Vol. 1

Sunspot Jungle, Vol. 1

2018

with Silvia Moreno-Garcia, William Alexander and Jeffrey Ford

Reimagining Lovecraft: The Tor.com Novellas

Reimagining Lovecraft: The Tor.com Novellas

2017

with Cassandra Khaw, Kij Johnson and Caitlin R. Kiernan

Odmieniec

Odmieniec

2017
The Changeling

The Changeling

2017
Tor.com Publishing Deluxe Sampler 1

Tor.com Publishing Deluxe Sampler 1

2016

with Ruthanna Emrys and Tor Books

La Ballade de Black Tom

La Ballade de Black Tom

2016
A Balada do Black Tom

A Balada do Black Tom

2016
La balada de Tom el Negro

La balada de Tom el Negro

2016
The Ballad of Black Tom
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The Ballad of Black Tom

2016·1 grade
Nightmare Magazine 49: October 2016. People of Colo(u)r Destroy Horror! Special Issue

Nightmare Magazine 49: October 2016. People of Colo(u)r Destroy Horror! Special Issue

2016

with Nadia Bulkin, Priya Sharma, Jayaprakash Satyamurthy, Chesya Burke and Terence Taylor

Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History

Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History

2014
The Devil in Silver

The Devil in Silver

2012
Lucretia and the Kroons

Lucretia and the Kroons

2012
Big Machine

Big Machine

2009
Slapboxing with Jesus

Slapboxing with Jesus

1999

Graphic novels6

Wolverine, Vol. 8: Sabretooth War, Part 1

Wolverine, Vol. 8: Sabretooth War, Part 1

2024

with Benjamin Percy

Wolverine, Vol. 9: Sabretooth War, Part 2

Wolverine, Vol. 9: Sabretooth War, Part 2

2024

with Larry Hama and Benjamin Percy

Weird Tales: 100 Years of Weird

Weird Tales: 100 Years of Weird

2023
Eve: Children of the Moon

Eve: Children of the Moon

2023
Sabretooth: The Adversary

Sabretooth: The Adversary

2022
Victor LaValle's Destroyer

Victor LaValle's Destroyer

2018

Collections3

Chiral Mad 5

Chiral Mad 5

2022

with Linda Addison, Stephen King, Tlotlo Tsamaase, Josh Malerman and Jack Ketchum

We Travel the Spaceways

We Travel the Spaceways

2021
The Best of Richard Matheson

The Best of Richard Matheson

2017

Single issues7

Eve #5

Eve #5

2021
Eve #4

Eve #4

2021
Eve #2

Eve #2

2021
Eve #1

Eve #1

2021
Tor.com Publishing Editorial Spotlight #3: A Selection of Novellas

Tor.com Publishing Editorial Spotlight #3: A Selection of Novellas

2019

with Stephen Graham Jones, Kelly Robson and Jeffrey Ford

Destroyer #1

Destroyer #1

2017
Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Bestiary #1

Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Bestiary #1

2014

with Ben Meares and Mark Alan Miller

Box sets & omnibuses2

Sabretooth & The Exiles

Sabretooth & The Exiles

Tor.com Bundle 5 - February 2016

Tor.com Bundle 5 - February 2016

2016

with Andy Remic and Michael R. Underwood