Black Medicine

Black Medicine

Infobox Book
name = Black Medicine
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image_caption = Dust-jacket illustration by Lee Brown Coye for "Black Medicine"
author = Arthur J. Burks
illustrator =
cover_artist = Lee Brown Coye
country = United States
language = English
series =
genre = Fantasy, Horror short stories
publisher = Arkham House
release_date = 1966
english_release_date =
media_type = Print (Hardback)
pages = 308 pp
isbn = NA
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"Black Medicine" is a collection of stories by author Arthur J. Burks. It was released in 1966 by Arkham House in an edition of 1,952 copies and was the author's first book published by Arkham House. All but one of the stories had originally appeared in the magazine "Weird Tales".

Contents

"Black Medicine" contains the following tales:

# Strange Tales of Santo Domingo
#*"A Broken Lamp Chimney"
#*"Desert of the Dead"
#*"Daylight Shadows"
#*"The Sorrowful Sisterhood"
#*"The Phantom Chibo"
#*"Faces"
# "Three Coffins"
# "When the Graves Were Opened"
# "Vale of the Corbies"
# "Voodoo"
# "Luisma's Return"
# "Thus Spake the Prophetess"
# "Black Medicine"
# "Bells of Oceana"
# "The Ghosts of Steamboat Coulee"
# "Guatemozin the Visitant"

References

*cite book | last=Jaffery | first=Sheldon | authorlink=Sheldon Jaffery | title=The Arkham House Companion | location=Mercer Island, WA | publisher=Starmont House, Inc.| pages=83| date=1989 | id=ISBN 1-55742-005-X
*cite book | last=Chalker | first=Jack L. | authorlink=Jack L. Chalker | coauthors=Mark Owings | title=The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998 | location=Westminster, MD and Baltimore | publisher=Mirage Press, Ltd.| pages=44 | date=1998
*cite book | last=Joshi | first=S.T. | authorlink=S.T. Joshi | title=Sixty Years of Arkham House: A History and Bibliography | location=Sauk City, WI | publisher=Arkham House| pages=96-97 | date=1999 | id=ISBN 0-87054-176-5
*cite book | last=Nielsen | first=Leon | title=Arkham House Books: A Collector's Guide | location=Jefferson, NC and London | publisher=McFarland & Company, Inc.| pages=98 | date=2004 | id=ISBN 0-7864-1785-4


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