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Victor LaValle
@victorlavalle.bsky.social
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Doing what I dreamed of since I was a kid.

Books: Lone Women, The Changeling, The Ballad of Black Tom, The Devil in Silver, Big Machine & more.

TV: The Changeling (EP), The Terror: Devil in Silver (Creator, Showrunner)

Comics: Destroyer, Eve, Sabretooth
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November 10, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Bringing out an oldie but a goodie.
A scene from a British comedy sketch show, That Mitchell and Webb Look. Two Nazis are talking at both. They wear SS uniforms. One of them asks, “Hans, Are We the Baddies?”
October 29, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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SHAUN OF THE DEAD at the United Palace Theater in Washington Heights with our 14-year old.

Show starts soon.

Can’t say which of us is more excited.
The main theater of the United Palace Theater in Washington Heighs, NY. Hundred of plush, red seats lead to a screen at the front. The walls are ornately designed. The theater opened in 1930.
October 26, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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UK readers! @waterstones.bsky.social has a 25% off promotions for pre-orders of UK versions of THE DEVIL IN SILVER and LONE WOMEN.

Devil in Silver has a gorgeous cover, and an intro from @sgj.bsky.social. Lone Women's cover will be revealed.
An ad for the UK edition of The Devil in Silver, which has a bleached buffalo skull with red flowers in the background. The preorder code shown is OCTOBER25 An ad for the UK edition of Lone Women, though right now you only see the title, author's name and the small Penguin colophon. The preorder code shown is OCTOBER25
October 16, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Anthrax’s mascot, the Not Man.
October 7, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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“LET’S DO THE FUCKING NEWS!”
Frank Booth, a villainous character from David Lynch’s movie, Blue Velvet. Frank is a middle-aged white dude in a leather jacket, holding an oxygen mask to his face.
October 7, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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BTW here’s a photo from 1992, when George HW Bush announced using the Insurrection Act. But CNN wouldn’t run this because it would be boring…and not inflammatory.
George HW Bush in the Oval Office, wearing a blue coat and tie, sitting at a desk, holding a few papers as he addresses the nation.
October 7, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Dear CNN,

When you next report on the “chaos” in Chicago in 2025, please be sure to use this painting of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 for the article.
A painting of the destruction of Chicago by fire from 1871.
October 7, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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A tombstone. The letters RIP etched in the stone.
October 2, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Edward R Murrow when he heard the news of John F Kennedy’s assassination. An older white man in a white shirt and black tie, removing his glasses at the sad news. The image is in black and white.
October 2, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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On a flight home, woman in next row is reading HORROR MOVIE by @paultremblay.bsky.social .

I wanted to take a photo of the cover but for the whole three hour flight she just kept turning the pages.

Can’t think of a higher compliment to a writer.
A woman sits on a plane reading a book.
September 29, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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Took our 14 year old to see THE LONG WALK today.

Genuinely moving and well made. Excellent film.

The bonds between the young men were allowed to be surprisingly tender in a way I’d love to see more in films with male friendships.
The poster for a film called The Long Walk, which I’d based on a novel by Stephen King. A group of young men walk on a plain asphalt road. Military vehicles follow behind them and a soldier stands in the foreground with an assault rifle visible in that soldier’s hand.
September 24, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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The worm scene is amazing and gross!

And it gave us this glorious nightmare a little later.
From Poltergiest 2. A weird, gross flesh creature looks at us, its face disturbingly human.
September 23, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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A lot of people never watched Poltergeist 2, and it shows.
A scene from the movie, Poltergesit 2. A whites man in a black suit is in a cave. His followers reach their hands out to him. Two candles flicker in the dark.
September 23, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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A scene from the Star Wars film, The Last Jedi. A white man, Kylo Ren, is shouting, More.
September 20, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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“Forget the myths that the media has created about the White House. The truth is, these are not very bright guys…”

-All the President’s Men (1976)
A scene from the movie, ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN. An older white man stands in a darkened parking garage. He stands beside a concrete column. Only the silhouette of his head and shoulders is visible. A ray of light hits his eyes so we can see them.
September 20, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Finally watched 28 Years Later. An incredible film. I loved it.

Sorry I didn’t get it together to watch it in theaters. I’ll be sure to see the next one on the big screen when it comes.
The movie poster for 28 Years Later. An enormous tower of human skulls against a gray sky. The symbol for hazardous material floats behind the skulls, in red.
September 7, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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About six episodes long.
Ed McMahon Sky’s with Johnny Carson on the Tonight Show. Ed is saying his catch phrase, Heyyo!!
August 7, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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My publisher released four of my novels with new gorgeous covers by the great Yuko Shimizu.

They’re calling it the LaValle Quartet though each book stands alone.

Just look at these things!

They’re in bookstores now.

www.penguinrandomhouse.com/series/LVQ/t...
Three little goblins in green robes carry a baby basket that is filled with fire. A woman, in silhouette, crosses the plains, fleeing from a small white spooky home. There are pink trees around the home. A figure in a straight jacket sprouts sunflowers where their head should be. Multiple pink cats heads float below a manhole cover from a sewer. The manhole cover is sprouting ostrich feathers. The feathers all have a flouting eye in them. This is my weirdest book and the image is a great illustration of that weirdness.
August 6, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Dropped one kid off at camp out of state, stopped for dinner. Had an Old Fashioned and two very fine glasses of Cabernet.

Rather than going on some tipsy screed about why we won’t get season 2 of the Changeling, I took a photo of my water bottle.

It says all I need to, really.
A photo of a glass water bottle on a dining table. Outside, the sun is setting. A red car is parked at the curb. A two seater table and umbrella sits there unoccupied.
August 3, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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And this loss just feels too sad to say more. Rest easy.
Malcolm Jamal Warner, in the opening credits of The Cosby Show, wearing a black shirt with a yellow jacket over one shoulder. He wears a silver watch and a ring.
July 23, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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My first Ozzy is still my favorite Ozzy.
Izzy Obsourne in special effects make up to look like a werewolf. He dressed this way when he released the album, Bark at the Moon, in 1983.
July 23, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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Mamdani, would you please be my mayor?
Three members of the hip hop group, A Tribe Called Quest. Phife Dawg, Q-Tip, and Ali Shaheed Muhammad. Three Black men on the streets of New York in fall clothes.
June 25, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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Always remember what Porco Rosso said:
A still from the animated film, Porco Rosso, directed by Japanese filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki. In this shot Porco Rosso, a pig on a rain coat, hat and sunglasses sits next to a military officer from the Italian facist army.
June 13, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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Watched MOUNTAINHEAD this weekend. I appreciated that the underlying point, as I saw it, is that there are no good billionaires.

The complete lack of connection with all human feeling and empathy was chilling & convincing.

If you called this a horror movie I would not argue.
A scene from the HBO movie, Mountainhead. Four men, all tech billionaire or millionaires, wearing casual clothing as they stare at a board game, Risk.
June 9, 2025 at 6:48 PM