Basic Black: Tales of Appropriate Fear

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Basic Black: Tales of Appropriate Fear
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First edition cover
AuthorTerry Dowling
PublisherCemetery Dance Publications
Publication date
January 1, 2006
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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]

The story "One Thing About the Night" is about a psychomanteum.

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