Writing Madness

Synopsis

Writing Madness Is A New, Massive Collection Of Short Fiction, Novellas, And Essays By Patrick Mcgrath ... Writing Madness Is The First Large-scale Collection Of Mcgrath's Short Fiction And Nonfiction, Including The Stories In Blood And Water And Other Tales, And Ghost Town: Tales Of Manhattan Then And Now. Also Included In This Unique Volume Are A Number Of Mcgrath's Essays, Introductions And Book Reviews, And Several Uncollected Stories. An Account Of His Childhood In The Shadow Of The Walls Of Britain's Largest Top-security Mental Hospital, A Boy's Broadmoor, Is Reprinted Here, As Is His Astonishing Account Of A Bizarre True-life Tragedy, Death Of A Silent Twin ... The Writer Who First Coined The Term The New Gothic, And Has Been Called By One Critic Possibly The Best Gothic Novelist Ever-- Http://www.centipedepress.com/horror/writingmadness.html (as Viewed On July 13, 2017). Introduction: The Storyteller: Patrick Mcgrath / Joyce Carol Oates -- Blood And Water And Other Tales. The Angel ; The Lost Explorer ; The Balck 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 -- Uncollected Stories. Not Cricket ; The Smell ; Down The Rift ; The Other Psychiatrist ; Vigilance ; The Wreck Of The Aurora -- Ghost Town. Ground Zero ; Julius ; The Year Of The Gibbet -- Essays. Writing Madness ; A Boy's Own Broadmoor ; Transgression And Decay ; Heroism In Trying Times ; The Death Of The Silent Twin ; Adventures In Motion Pictures ; Memory -- Introductions. The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde -- Frankenstein ; Dracula ; The Monk ; Moby Dick ; Bartleby The Scrivener ; J. Sheridan Lefanu ; Barnaby Rudge ; The End Of The Tether ; Daphne Du Maurier ; John Hawkes ; Shirley Jackson ; Poe's Dank Vaults ; Saki -- Reviews. Gothic ; Felicia's Journey ; The Untouchable ; Night Train ; London: A Biography ; Madhouse -- Afterword / Danel Olson -- Acknowledgments. Patrick Mcgrath ; Introduction By Joyce Carol Oates ; Artwork By Harry Brockway ; Edited, With Afterword, By Danel Olson. Limited To 300 Copies For Sale. March 2017--colophon.