- Victor LaValle. Everyone is missing out on something special if they’ve never read a VLV novel. Lone Women, The Changeling, or The Ballad of Black Tom to start. - Brandon Massey. Have only read Nana, but I enjoyed it. - Out There Screaming: An Anthology, edited by Jordan Peele - Dark Dreams: A Collection of Horror and Suspense by Black Writers, edited by Brandon Massey