Black Cocktail

Black Cocktail
	First edition
Author	Jonathan Carroll
Illustrator	Dave McKean
Language	English
Genre	Fantasy, dark comedy novella
Publisher	Legend Press
Publication date	1990
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (Paperback)
Pages	76 pp
ISBN	0-7126-2164-4
OCLC	23868280

Last updated March 09, 2026

Black Cocktail is a fantasy novella by American author Jonathan Carroll.

Plot introduction

The novel follows the activities of Ingram York, a disc-jockey in Los Angeles. The book deals with the Platonic concept that everyone was originally joined to another human being and spends their lives searching for their missing half.

Awards and nominations

World Fantasy, Best Novella, 1991 (nominated)

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v t e Works by Jonathan Carroll
Answered Prayers Sextet	Bones of the Moon (1987) Sleeping in Flame (1988) A Child Across the Sky (1989) Outside the Dog Museum (1991) After Silence (1992) From the Teeth of Angels (1994)
The Crane's View Trilogy	Kissing the Beehive (1997) The Marriage of Sticks (2000) The Wooden Sea (2001)
Other novels	The Land of Laughs (1980) Voice of Our Shadow (1983) White Apples (2002) Glass Soup (2005) The Ghost in Love (2008) Bathing the Lion (2014)
Novellas and short story collections	Black Cocktail (1990) The Panic Hand (1995) The Woman Who Married A Cloud: Collected Stories (2012)

Black Cocktail

Contents

Plot introduction

Awards and nominations

References