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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...

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 192
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 978-0-14-015799-4
  • EAN
  • 9780140157994
  • Genres
  • horror, fiction, gothic, fantasy
  • Release date
  • 1992