| Dear Readers,
We’ve had an amazing time bringing a wide variety of writers to Bristol for our events programme this year. We have one more talk to announce, and we think it’s the perfect way to sign off for the year in good seasonal style.
Join us for a shot of the supernatural with an evening of dramatic readings and discussion on the stories from the British Library’s recently published collection, Dead Drunk: Tales of Intoxication and Demon Drink edited by Bristol University lecturer, Pam Lock.
Pam will talk about the new collection of intoxicatingly strange short stories on drinking and drunkenness from the long 19th Century and her wider research on arguably the most drunken period of British history.
She will also share some traditional Victorian drinks and you’ll go away with a card of genuine Victorian recipes gathered from her research to try out on your family and guests this Christmas.
The event will be taking place on Thursday 30th November, at 7pm, at Gloucester Road Books
More information and tickets are available here.
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-fuelled 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.
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