{"product_id":"dead-drunk","title":"Dead Drunk","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":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57306088407422,"sku":"NW9780712354097","price":9.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780712354097.jpg?v=1778519319","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/dead-drunk","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}