Food Horror

Every meal has a price. In these eight tales of culinary dread, the act of eating becomes a doorway to transformation, possession, and cosmic horror. From bone-bread resurrections to body horror beanstalks, from shadow-feasts to revenge served cold, these eight tales explore the terrible transformations that come from consuming the wrong things. Here, hunger is power. Obsession is deadly. And what goes into your mouth may already be plotting its way back out. A collection for readers who like their horror literary, visceral, and impossible to forget.

Betty is a sweet shop owner, determined to be the best, she takes extreme measures. Betty isn't what she seems though, she's not a very good person, and karma catches up to her!

Every restaurant has secrets—some whispered during closing shifts, others kept quiet to avoid scaring customers away. But the stories that survive, passed from worker to worker, are the ones that should never be heard outside the kitchen. Urban Legends of Restaurant Workers dives into the chilling, bizarre, and sometimes downright supernatural experiences of cooks, dishwashers, servers, night managers, and line staff across diners, bars, fast-food chains, and upscale kitchens. From walk-in freezers that whisper back… to grease traps that feed on more than oil… to customers who ...

The fourth book in the TWISTED EVER AFTER series that takes familiar fairy tales and transforms them into contemporary horror. Perfect measurements. Flawless symmetry. Ideal proportions. Seventeen-year-old Jen Marsh has spent her life pursuing physical perfection through the pageant circuit, her entire identity built around calculated measurements and precise aesthetic standards. When her longtime rival appears with a transformed body courtesy of the mysterious "Bite" program, Jen's desperation for an edge leads her to sign up without reading the fine print. The specialized "nutrition" ...

A collection of stories: The Possessed Printer Blues: A woman buys a printer at a yard sale. The Long Day Sun: A photography student helps out a friend. Savory Taro Pudding: A short nightmare based on true events. Billionaire Babies: It turns out you can't trust billionaires. Bath Salts Vampire: Teen girls with low self-esteem + a drug dealer who thinks he's an ancient vampire. What could go wrong?

If what you see is what you get, Jules is in serious trouble. The suspenseful first in a series from the New York Times bestselling author of the Wake trilogy. Jules lives with her family above their restaurant, which means she smells like pizza most of the time and drives their...

A near-future murder-mystery-drama morphs over 10 days into an action-packed sci-fi conspiracy-thriller as a historical Southern rural river community is suddenly overwhelmed by a series of accidents and deaths. Are all these events somehow tied to a dam break, the murder of an old riverman, and a fish? Can Sheriff Coleman of Charles County solve this puzzling case with the reluctant help of Jason Dickson, an autistic convicted-hacker/ engineering student? What discovery is so great they risk their lives, and everyone they love, to reveal to the world? Can you decipher the Master Code with ...

Aimee Bender’s Willful Creatures conjures a fantastical world in which authentic love blooms. This is a place where a boy with keys for fingers is a hero, a woman’s children are potatoes, and a little boy with an iron for a head is born to a family of pumpkin heads. With her singular mix of...

POCKET UNIVERSE ADVENTURES: THE GALLEY In 1802, Tommy Bracken cooks below deck on the Persephone, where heat, salt, and routine are the only things keeping men human. Then the crew stops asking for seconds. A wreck drifts alongside. And Tommy realizes something out there isn’t just hungry. It’s watching. He survives the voyage, but the world doesn’t go back to normal. On shore, Tommy and Wallace build a place with a simple promise: a room where people eat like they matter. The Galley becomes a refuge, then a rumor, then a magnet—drawing in the bruised and brilliant, the cautious and...

Dive headfirst into the smoky, raucous pups of 1970s Dublin with The Feathers Flew, a wickedly sharp short story that’ll grab you by the collar and drag you into the predictable world of Paddy Keenan—a man whose heart belongs to a pint of stout and the hum of barroom banter. By day, he’s a working-class everyman; by night, he swaps his wife’s nagging and the chaos of his rowdy kids for the warm glow of the public house. But when a quacking, waddling oddity—a pet duck—crash-lands into the Keenan’s backyard, Paddy’s routine of a chat over a few scoops takes a wild turn. As ...

Benji moved away from his troubled past in hopes of starting a better life in Santa Monica California. With the help of his friend Janie, Benji is about to land a job working for one of the oldest and most prestigious restaurants in the city. What should have been his dream job will soon turn into a recipe for terror when Benji finds out the sinister truth of what is on the mysterious restaurant's diabolical menu. Brace yourself for a sumptuous smorgasbord of romance as Queer Creatures Publishing and Wolfe Hans serve up a heart-stopping thriller that promises to satiate even your most ...

Ghost hunters, an exorcism, and a ghostly grey tabby Mad River welcomes a pair of ghost hunters and their television show to town only for a murder to occur as the cameras were rolling. Now Shelby's ghost friends are being accused of the dirty deed and the good reverend is calling for an exorcism. Can Shelby find the killer before the pastor exorcises her spirit friends away from the only homes and town they've ever known? Find out in the Mad River Mystery Series.

Soul Food is a multi-voice performance of a short story called Fillet of Souls by D. Glenn Millar, in which strange, disembodied beings share a meal at a restaurant on the edge of galaxy. The menu? It's to die for.

What if beings from another planet came to earth with a peace offering in the form of a small candy which would kill all excess body fat, build muscle, give you incredible energy, and clear, wonderful skin? It would make you feel and look as if you were young again. If you were young, your appearance would remain youthful, and you would never know what it feels like to be old. Would you be interested? Issac is struggling himself with that very question as he discovers a new world of transformation.

Milton Maroo, a portly space trader who enjoys a gourmet meal as much as a good deal, is wanted for murder in a strange star system on the brink of war. The Idon star system is fragile, crumbling from the outer planets in. At the edge, resentment boils in the Idonan people, whispers of uprising are growing. The palace, on the innermost planet, still projects order from a king increasingly out of touch with his subjects. Milton Maroo, the lone pilot of the trading ship, the Zenger, transports goods from system to system, most of it legal. On a run into the Idon system, his dazzling skills ...

Milton Maroo, a portly space trader who enjoys a gourmet meal as much as a good deal, has priceless cargo, an outlawed artificial intelligence that the crime underworld will kill for. The billionaire head of the Nythe Armaments Corporation empire is dead. Murdered by the most powerful crime syndicate in the system who are after one thing, an illegal artificial intelligence that will change the balance of power in the region in favour of whomever possesses it. Milton and his spy friend Cappa are broke. While they do odd jobs at the billionaire’s estate they discover the Lerjoo Brothers ...

Ghost hunters on a mission, mysterious flying gavels, and down home southern cooking When flying gavels and a levitating judge cause upheaval in a small rural town, it's up to Eden Patterson with her husband Luke and a team of ghost hunters to uncover the cause for the disruptions. But secrets hide within the walls and beyond the courthouse. What or who is this mysterious presence that wants to tear down the walls of justice? Find out in this new series filled with smell visions of fried chicken, green beans and chunks of ham, and double crusted apple pie.

Be very Afraid when the Ghosts are Spooked! When Shelby's sister Harriet isn't acting herself and the ghosts of Mad River Old Town are in hiding, she knows something isn't quite right. Follow that with two inquisitive strangers, Shelby's in the fight for her sister's life. Just in time for Halloween! Join Shelby along with the ghosts of Mad River as they tackle an evil entity set to take over someone's body and soul.

A Haunted Village, Rattling Chains and Ominous Moans Eden Patterson and her ghost team are called to investigate disturbances in a small town filled with craft shops, antiques, and a rich history. Rattling chains, yelling and moaning are causing the town's shopkeepers nightmares as tourists and customers turn tail and run. But are these disturbances evil, angry or sad? Find out as Eden faces a spirit unlike any she has before.