Dead Drunk: Tales of Intoxication and Demon Drinks

Suddenly he tripped and fell his length over a prostrate body… he marvelled that so rough an impact should not have kicked a groan out of the drunkard…

With a stiff measure of the supernatural, a dram of melodrama and a chaser of the cautionary kind, tales of drink and drunkenness can be found in a well- stocked cabinet of Victorian and early twentieth-century fiction, reflecting an anxiety about the impact of alcohol and intoxicants in society, as well as an acknowledgment of their influence on humans’ perception of reality.

Featuring drink-fueled classics such as Robert Louis Stevenson’s ‘The Body Snatcher’ alongside obscurities from periodicals such as Blackwood’s Magazine, this new collection offers a (somewhat poisoned) chalice of dark and stormy short fiction, brimming with the weird, the grotesque, the entertaining and the outlandish.

Author: Pam Lock
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: British Library
Published: 07/09/2024
Series: Tales of the Weird
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 7.49h x 5.23w x 0.81d
ISBN: 9780712354097
Language: English