Patrick McGrath

The Grotesque

Deformed butler and aristocratic household descend into grotesque psychological horror

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Patrick McGrath

Patrick McGrath is a British-American Gothic novelist whose works such as Spider and Asylum explore the boundary between sanity and madness in the tradition of 19th-century Gothic literature. His prose has an elegance and formal precision that sets him apart from other contemporary horror writers. He is considered one of the finest practitioners of neo-Gothic fiction.

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