The vaults of Victorian fiction are rife with stories of drink and drunkenness, envisaging intoxication as a catalyst for the tragic and macabre, the riotous and sensational and, of course, as a gateway to the realm of spirits and the supernatural.

Offering a dizzying cocktail of tales brimming with the weird, the grotesque and the outlandish, this new anthology plumbs an enticing niche of drink-fuelled Victorian storytelling to serve up haunting classics from Robert Louis Stevenson, Wilkie Collins, Amelia B. Edwards and Rudyard Kipling alongside many more delirious oddities from the British Library collection.