Album artwork for Dead Drunk: Tales of Intoxication and Demon Drinks by Edited by Pam Lock

'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.

Edited by Pam Lock

Dead Drunk: Tales of Intoxication and Demon Drinks

British Library Publishing
Album artwork for Dead Drunk: Tales of Intoxication and Demon Drinks by Edited by Pam Lock
Paperback

£9.99

Released 21/09/2023Catalogue Number

9780712354097

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Edited by Pam Lock

Dead Drunk: Tales of Intoxication and Demon Drinks

British Library Publishing
Album artwork for Dead Drunk: Tales of Intoxication and Demon Drinks by Edited by Pam Lock
Paperback

£9.99

Released 21/09/2023Catalogue Number

9780712354097

Learn more

'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.