Blood and Water and Other Stories

Download or read book Blood and Water and Other Stories written by Patrick Mcgrath and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-08-18 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 nightclub is terrorized by a strange libidinous hand; and a young Victorian lady sails to India to find her fiancé Cecil horribly transformed...