Black Medicine

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Title Black Medicine

Dust-jacket illustration by Lee Brown Coye for Black Medicine
Author	Arthur J. Burks
Cover artist	Lee Brown Coye
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre(s)	Fantasy, Horror short stories
Publisher	Arkham House
Released	1966
Media type	Print (Hardback)
Pages	308 pp
ISBN	NA

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.

[edit] Contents

Black Medicine contains the following tales:

1. Strange Tales of Santo Domingo
   • "A Broken Lamp Chimney"
   • "Desert of the Dead"
   • "Daylight Shadows"
   • "The Sorrowful Sisterhood"
   • "The Phantom Chibo"
   • "Faces"
2. "Three Coffins"
3. "When the Graves Were Opened"
4. "Vale of the Corbies"
5. "Voodoo"
6. "Luisma's Return"
7. "Thus Spake the Prophetess"
8. "Black Medicine"
9. "Bells of Oceana"
10. "The Ghosts of Steamboat Coulee"
11. "Guatemozin the Visitant"

[edit] References

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