num_pages: 214
description: 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...
language: English
title: Blood and Water and Other Tales
titlecomplete: Blood and Water and Other Tales
genres: 20th Century, Short Stories, Dark, Science Fiction, Gothic, Horror, Fantasy, Fiction
ratings_count: 317
publisher: Ballantine Books