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Dead drunk

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A collection of Victorian and early twentieth-century fiction, reflecting the anxieties about the impact of alcohol and intoxicants in society. 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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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.

Additional information

Weight 0.236 kg
Dimensions 19 × 12.7 × 2.2 cm
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Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

288

Language

English

Edition

Short stories

Dewey

808.838738 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K