{"product_id":"9780712354097","title":"Dead Drunk: Tales of Intoxication and Demon Drinks","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSuddenly 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... \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Featuring drink-fueled classics such as Robert Louis Stevenson’s ‘The Body Snatcher’ alongside obscurities from periodicals such as \u003ci\u003eBlackwood’s Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.","brand":"British Library Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42451695730749,"sku":"9780712354097","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9780712354097_p0.jpg?v=1771562056","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.mom\/products\/9780712354097","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}