Black Medicine
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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
.
Arthur J. Burks
Arthur J. Burks was an American writer and a Marine colonel.- Biography :Burks was born to a farming family in Waterville, Washington. He married Blanche Fidelia Lane on March 23, 1918 in Sacramento, California and was the father of four children: Phillip Charles, Wasle Carmen, Arline Mary and...
. It was released in 1966
1966 in literature
The year 1966 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*February 14 - Dissident writers Yuli Daniel and Andrei Sinyavsky are sentenced to hard labour for "anti-Soviet activity"....
by Arkham House
Arkham House
Arkham House is a publishing house specializing in weird fiction founded in Sauk City, Wisconsin in 1939 by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei to preserve in hardcover the best fiction of H.P. Lovecraft. The company's name is derived from Lovecraft's fictional New England city, Arkham. 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
Weird Tales
Weird Tales is an American fantasy and horror fiction pulp magazine first published in March 1923. It ceased its original run in September 1954, after 279 issues, but has since been revived. The magazine was set up in Chicago by J. C. Henneberger, an ex-journalist with a taste for the macabre....
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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"