Black Medicine is a collection of stories by American writer Arthur J. Burks.

["Three Coffins"] has points of interest, and ["Bells of Oceana"] is worth reading for a certain baroque, exuberant overkill of horror.

"What makes Burks' text interesting," wrote one critic, "is the chaotic mixture of imperial and anti-imperial sentiments."

"[3] "The most pointed hatred and derision," said another critic, "straight from the lexicon of homegrown racism":[4]: 175 Burks's Haiti was a site of sexual excess, gender disorder, and primitive savagery, It was a land characterized bt the effective absence of the family as a basis for social order.

In Burks's telling, the grotesque horror of Haiti showed the obvious and urgent need for American rule there.