The ballad of Black Tom

In this retelling of H.P. Lovecraft's infamous story "The Horror at Red Hook," Charles Thomas Tester is a con artist who disguises himself as a street musician to hustle money on the streets of 1924 Harlem in order to provide for himself and his father. Desperate for money, he takes a job at the home of Robert Suydam, a wealthy man from Red Hook, only to become involved in the opening of a portal to another dimension and the summoning of an evil force.