Blood and Water: and Other Tales
by McGrath, Patrick
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- first
- Condition
- Fine w/ remainder stamp to bottom edge in fine jacket.
- Seller
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Oakland, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Poseidon Press, 1988. First ed. First printing (full number line). Fine w/ remainder stamp to bottom edge in fine jacket.. Octavo in pale blue pictorial jacket; 192 pages; 23 cm. Contents: The angel -- The lost explorer -- The black hand of the Raj -- Lush triumphant -- Ambrose Syme -- The Arnold Crombeck story -- Blood disease -- The skewer -- Marmilion -- Hand of a wanker -- The boot's tale -- The e(rot)ic potato -- Blood and water.Severed hands, dead monkeys, swarming insects, pickled body parts and menacing pygmies proliferate in this collection of short stories. They also feature ancient Southern plantations, isolated manor houses, places where ghosts like to lurk and places where spiritual and physical decay presidesRécits d'horreur américains. Horror tales, American. short stories. novels. Fiction. Short stories. Horror fiction. Horror fiction. Short stories. Horror fiction. Fiction. Novels. Nouvelles. Romans. McGrath, Patrick, 1950- author.
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- Bookseller
- Bibliope by Calvello Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 94464
- Title
- Blood and Water: and Other Tales
- Author
- McGrath, Patrick
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine w/ remainder stamp to bottom edge in fine jacket.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First ed. First printing (full number line)
- Publisher
- Poseidon Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1988
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