PDF [Download] Dead Drunk: Tales of Intoxication and Demon Drinks by Pam Lock
Dead Drunk: Tales of Intoxication and Demon Drinks by Pam Lock
- Dead Drunk: Tales of Intoxication and Demon Drinks
- Pam Lock
- Page: 288
- Format: pdf, ePub, mobi, fb2
- ISBN: 9780712354097
- Publisher: British Library Publishing
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Overview
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.