Six books for fans of the movie "Sinners"

Erica Ezeifedi is a writer, editor, and advocate currently serving as an Associate Editor at Book Riot. For the site she tagged six "books that each touch on the major themes and feelings in Sinners," including:

The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle

Tonally, this novella fits the overall feeling of Sinners the best of all the books in this list. It is a retelling of H.P. Lovecraft’s existential horror story The Horror at Red Hook, and is, in many ways, a reclaiming. Lovecraft was a raging racist (even for his time) who was influenced by Black people just as he despised us, and it’s kind of ironic (but also maybe just typical) that the same cosmic horror Lovecraft became known for explores exactly the same kind of all-encompassing existential dread that Black Americans have felt for hundreds of years in this land.

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The Ballad of Black Tom is among Brittany K. Allen's ten top books for fans of Sinners, Chase Dearinger's seven horror titles where the setting is a monster, and Colleen Kinder's ten titles about chance encounters with strangers.

--Marshal Zeringue