Food Horror

A thrilling gothic debut The untimely death of a student at a girls’ boarding school marks the first in a haunting series of escalating supernatural events, and uncovers buried truths of teenage repression, queer desire, and the everyday horror of coming of age. "A truly impeccable novel...

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.

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 unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of The Pale King, David Foster Wallace's final and most ambitious undertaking - an audacious and hilarious look into the abyss of ordinary life. Read by the actor Robert Petkoff. The agents at the IRS Regional Examination Centre in Peoria, IL...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

A quirky culinary cozy to be read in one or two sittings. When bizarre objects start showing up in the hotdogs and chili fries Felicia is serving her customers, she wonders if someone is trying to get her food truck shut down. But when the same thing starts happening at other local eateries, Felicia vows to find out who's behind it all before somebody gets seriously injured. By Celia Kinsey writing as Abby Byne

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?

Winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor “[T]his poised and playful debut novel is a sly satire on foodie culture and the modern hype machine. . . . As tart as ‘artisanal citrus,’ as sharp as a chef’s knife, The Lemon is both a gleeful foodie sendup and an incisive takedown of the...

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...

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...

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 ...

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!

A bone-chilling contemporary YA horror about what happens when a Haitian American girl uses her previously hidden zombie abilities to exact revenge on the wealthy elites who've caused her family pain. Brielle Petitfour loves to cook. But with a chronically sick mother and bills to pay, becoming...

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" ...

It's been twenty years since her mother was photographed, blood-soaked, outside the family home. A famous TV food personality, she fled the country. Since that time, the girl has grown up. She's bought an apartment, learned her own cooking style, fallen in love. She lives a quiet life, working...

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.

Travis McKinley is living the life he always dreamed of. He was an ordinary man living an ordinary life, until a miraculous twist of fate led to him become a golf pro at the age of fifty and win the USPGA Senior Open. But recently Travis’s good fortunes have taken a turn for the worse, and his...

Brought to you by Penguin. The astonishing multimedia thriller – first seen on Facebook – now in print for the first time. Police detective by day, celebrity food truck chef by night, now Caleb Rooney has a new title: Most Wanted. In the Carnival days leading up Mardi Gras, Detective Caleb...