Blood and Water and Other Tales

Dark, unnerving and wickedly funny, Patrick McGrath's acclaimed short stories deal in the bizarre, the erotic and the unexpected. A failed writer meets an ageing gin-queen who claims he was once visited by an angel; a little girl finds a delirious, dying explorer from the Congo at the bottom of her back garden; a night-club is terrorized by a strange libidinous hand; and a young Victorian lady sails to India to find her fiance Cecil horribly transformed...

• Author
• Patrick McGrath

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 192

• Publisher
• Penguin Books Ltd

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 978-0-14-015799-4

• EAN
• 9780140157994

• Genres
• horror, fiction, gothic, fantasy

• Release date
• 1992