Basic Black: Tales of Appropriate Fear (Cemetery Dance Publications, 2006) is a collection of horror stories by Australian writer Terry Dowling,[1] a bumper collection in hardcover of the best of his weird and supernatural fiction, which includes two previously uncollected tales. It earned a starred review in Publishers Weekly, which said: "The everyday and ordinary show an unexpected malignant side in this collection of 18 uniquely disturbing tales of the fantastic...one of the year's more satisfying dark fantasy reads."[2]
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Author | Terry Dowling |
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Publisher | Cemetery Dance Publications |
Publication date | January 1, 2006 |
ISBN | 9781587671234 |
The story "One Thing About the Night" is about a psychomanteum.
References
edit- ^ "Basic Black: Tales of Appropriate Fear". Booklist. 15 May 2006. Retrieved 22 August 2024.
- ^ "Basic Black: Tales of Appropriate Fear by Terry Dowling". Publishers Weekly. 3 April 2006. Retrieved 23 August 2024.