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Patrick McGrath

(b.1950)

Patrick McGrath is the author of five critically acclaimed books, all published by Penguin: Blood and Water, The Grotesque, Spider, Dr Haggard's Disease and Asylum. He lives in New York and London, SE11.

Genres: Literary Fiction

Novels

   The Grotesque (1989)
   Spider (1990)
   Dr Haggard's Disease (1993)
   Asylum (1996)
   Martha Peake (2000)
   Port Mungo (2004)
   Trauma (2008)
   Constance (2013)
   The Wardrobe Mistress (2017)
   Last Days in Cleaver Square (2021)

Collections

   Blood and Water (1988)
   The Angel (1989)
   Ghost Town (2005)
   Writing Madness (2018)

Anthologies edited

The New Gothic (1991) (with Bradford Morrow)

Books containing stories by Patrick McGrath

A Mountain Walked (2014)
edited by
S T Joshi

Dark (2000)
Stories of Madness, Murder and the Supernatural
edited by
Clint Willis

The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Fifth Annual Collection (1992)
(Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, book 5)
edited by
Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling

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Award nominations

	2018 Walter Scott Prize for Best Historical Novel (nominee) : The Wardrobe Mistress
	2008 Costa Book Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Trauma
	1996 Whitbread Prize for Best Novel (nominee) : Asylum
	1990 Locus Award for Best First Novel (nominee) : The Grotesque
	1989 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : Blood and Water: And Other Tales
	1988 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection (nominee) : Blood and Water: And Other Tales

Patrick McGrath recommends

Love and Obstacles (2009)
Aleksandar Hemon
"An original who owes no debts to anyone."

Cast in Doubt (1992)
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"Broad, funny, self-deprecating..."

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