Basic Black: Tales of Appropriate Fear (Cemetery Dance Publications, 2006) is a collection of horror stories by Terry Dowling, 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 (May), 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."
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“What, then, is the basic difference between today’s computer and an intelligent being? It is that the computer can be made to see but not to perceive. What matters here is not that the computer is without consciousness but that thus far it is incapable of the spontaneous grasp of pattern—a capacity essential to perception and intelligence.”
—Rudolf Arnheim (b. 1904)
“A curious thing about atrocity stories is that they mirror, instead of the events they purport to describe, the extent of the hatred of the people that tell them.
Still, you can’t listen unmoved to tales of misery and murder.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)
“Against a spike
Kick not, for fear it pain thee if thou strike.”
—Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)