A friend of mine interviewed Patrick McGrath and said that -
indeed - his dad always had interesting anecdotes for the
kiddies at the dinner table. The best of these was something
about a woman who'd cut off her husband's head - when the
kids asked 'Why did she do it?' his reply was something like
'Raving Mad!' or some such. (-:
The latest forensic anthropologist to use his experience in
fiction must be Roderick Anscombe, who paints a very chilling
sociopath in 'The Interview Room.' And I know Shane Stevens
did mountains of research for his unsurpassed 'By Reason of
Insanity.' But Shakespeare's Iago perfected the sociopathic
personality long before there was such a thing. McGrath's
special insight seems to be psychiatrists more than patients,
and I thought the narrator of 'Asylum' was far creepier than
his homicidal patient.
David Wright
---
DJ-Anonyme@webtv.net wrote:
Doesn't
> Patrick McGrath, author of
> Spider and others, claim he got his
knowledge
> of psychosis from sneaking
> into the medical files of his father, who ran
a
> sanitarium?
David Wright - Seattle Public Library Fiction Dept.
"Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity."
-G.K.
Chesterton
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