Dead drunk : tales of intoxication and demon drinks / edited by Pam Lock.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lock, Pam, editor.

Series:

Tales of the Weird

British Library tales of the weird

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Horror tales.

Horror tales, English.

Drinking of alcoholic beverages--Fiction.

Drinking of alcoholic beverages.

Physical Description:

267 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : The British Library, 2023.

Summary:

"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."--Provided by publisher.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9780712354097

0712354093

OCLC:

1390611171

Publisher Number:

99996789631