Dead Drunk : Tales of Intoxication and Demon Drinks Paperback / softback
Edited by Pam Lock
Part of the British Library Tales of the Weird series
Paperback / softback
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'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-fuelled 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.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:288 pages
- Publisher:British Library Publishing
- Publication Date:28/09/2023
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- ISBN:9780712354097
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In Stock - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:288 pages
- Publisher:British Library Publishing
- Publication Date:28/09/2023
- Category:
- ISBN:9780712354097
