WW BOOK CULT: Dead Drunk: Tales of Intoxication and Demon Drinks

There’s nothing better than a pint and a good read after a day’s yomping, although this collection of weirdness might have you ordering a lime soda instead. With a stiff measure of the supernatural, a dram of melodrama and a chaser of the cautionary kind, tales of drink and drunkenness abound in this well-stocked cabinet of Victorian and early twentieth-century fiction.

Featuring drink-fuelled classics such as Robert Louis Stevenson’s ‘The Body Snatcher’ alongside boozy obscurities, Dead Drunk offers a (somewhat poisoned) chalice of dark and stormy short fiction, brimming with the weird, the grotesque, the entertaining and the outlandish.