''Black Medicine'' is a collection of stories by American writer

Arthur J. Burks Arthur Josephus Burks (September 13, 1898 – May 13, 1974) was an American Marine officer and fiction writer. Burks was born to a farming family in Waterville, Washington. He married Blanche Fidelia Lane on March 23, 1918, in Sacramento, ...

. It was released in

1966 Events January * January 1 – In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa takes over as military ruler of the Central African Republic, ousting President David Dacko. * January 3 – 1966 Upper Voltan coup d'état: President Maurice Yaméogo i ...

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''.

''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"

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