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From the back cover A young woman goes to colonial India to meet her fiancé—and finds a gruesome surprise... And American journalist interviews and English murderer on death row—with alarming results... A Greenwich Village painter-cum-drunk discovers the bizarre true subject of his latest work... The hand of a sinner can’t be trusted—even after it’s been severed from the arm... And, in the chilling title story, and English landowner is driven to violence to protect his wife’s bizarre sexual condition. “This collection is crowded with ghosts, hermaphrodites, civilized insect, angels, modern-day vampires and the sole survivor of a nuclear holocaust, a boot... IN prose that is rich and original, perverse, passionate, and grittily mellifluous, McGrath spins neatly finished old-fashioned tales for our times.” —Leslie Carper, San Francisco Chronicle Book Review “Mos of the [stories] long palpably for a gentler age, an age when the world’s wildernesses still harbored unimaginable sights and sounds, and age when science had no yet explained away so much of the inexplicable and, especially, and age in which word-spinners could fashion filigrees of ornately layered prose without sounding a

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Author

McGrath, Patrick

Publisher

Poseidon Pr

Published

1988

Language

EN

Category

work of fiction

Rating

3.72 / 5 (143 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14