Brown, RebeccaHoffman, Andrew2016-07-142016-07-142016-07-142016-06Hoffman_washington_0250O_16023.pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/1773/36410Thesis (Master's)--University of Washington, 2016-06Black Medicine is a novella that combines elements of both the Western genre and the Gothic ghost story. The intention of the tale was to place the claustrophobia of Gothic ghost stories within the open spaces of the Western to see how they would complicate the natural progress of the other. The work culminates in the biographical essay “Cowboys Talking to Ghosts of Themselves.”application/pdfen-USFictionGenreGothicHorrorNovellaWesternEnglish literatureinterdisciplinary arts and sciences - bothellThesis