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Tasteful: A Literary Cannibal Anthology
Tasteful: A Literary Cannibal Anthology contains 21 delicious stories about people who eat other people.
An unfortunate tourist... a family facing the apocalypse... a princess with a secret... a mother-to-be... Whether they're eating or being eaten out of love, obsession, or hate, or just because someone was feeling snackish, there's a story in this collection to satisfy everybody's taste.
Proceeds from every purchase will be donated to Philabundance, the food bank that serves Southeast Pennsylvania.
Short stories by Hussani Abdulrahim, J. Ambrose, Michael Boulerice, Lauren Carter, Rain Corbyn, Cassandra Daucus, Sarah Doebereiner, Ruth Anna Evans, Lor Gislason, Marc J. Guillotte, Ria Hill, Liam Hogan, Sophie Ingley, Dori Lumpkin, Bryan Miller, Jonathan Olfert, Mere Rain, Frank Roger, Nadia Steven Rysing, Vox Villalobos, and Cat Voleur.
Original artwork for every story by Iseult Murphy.
Curated by Cat Voleur, Iseult Murphy, and Cassandra Daucus.
An unfortunate tourist... a family facing the apocalypse... a princess with a secret... a mother-to-be... Whether they're eating or being eaten out of love, obsession, or hate, or just because someone was feeling snackish, there's a story in this collection to satisfy everybody's taste.
Proceeds from every purchase will be donated to Philabundance, the food bank that serves Southeast Pennsylvania.
Short stories by Hussani Abdulrahim, J. Ambrose, Michael Boulerice, Lauren Carter, Rain Corbyn, Cassandra Daucus, Sarah Doebereiner, Ruth Anna Evans, Lor Gislason, Marc J. Guillotte, Ria Hill, Liam Hogan, Sophie Ingley, Dori Lumpkin, Bryan Miller, Jonathan Olfert, Mere Rain, Frank Roger, Nadia Steven Rysing, Vox Villalobos, and Cat Voleur.
Original artwork for every story by Iseult Murphy.
Curated by Cat Voleur, Iseult Murphy, and Cassandra Daucus.
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Published December 15, 2024
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June 15, 2025
I am beginning my read of this anthology, which is a charitable endeavor to raise funds for Philabundance (or other foodbanks, if you prefer to donate locally; simply email your receipt to the publisher to receive an ebook!).
Although I contributed a story I haven't read the rest before, so I will comment as I go.
We're off to a nicely ominous start with "The Gourman Society" by Liam Hogan. In context, the mere setting in a retirement home is creepy.
Frank Roger presents a yummy but high-cholesterol "Cryobarbecue" of rich people, the one meat that's guilt-free!
"Eat Your Young" Nadia Steven Rising is a warning not a suggestion. Nourish your children, nourish the land that feeds you.
"To Taste" by Lor Gislason. Rina needs pepper.
"She Consumes Me" by Lauren Carter. Exactly what the title says, in all senses.
"Writer's Block" by Ruth Anna Evans. Ahahahahaha! Yeah, we probably would. I mean, it's for a good cause, right?
"Acquiring the Taste" by Sophie Ingley is apocalyptic rather than mythical, but this feels like a "how to become a wendigo" case study. But I hope if I get stuck in a bunker with a cannibal they're a good cook!
"The Body and the Blood" Dori Lumpkin. Honestly about the most positive outcome one could hope from being picked up by a creepy stranger at a bus stop.
"An Awkward Pause" Sarah Doebereiner. Talk clearly about the Facts of Life with your kids, parents. Include eating (or not eating) peers in this talk.
People get eaten in this one. <-- I'm not apologizing for that terrible pun.
I stand by my classification of "Pondscum" as a romance. I mean, it ends happily for the princess and her new...whatever. Those other characters had it coming.
Ria Hill's young protagonist in "Rolls" doesn't want to eat people. She doesn't want to eat anything! But there are only so many ways to get rid of the incriminating corpse in her bed.
TW for
Rain Corbyn knows how it is. "Eat the rich" is fantasizing: it's only ever the rich who eat us.
"Chew, Spit, Repeat" by J Ambrose is poetic and synesthetic, the opposite of what I expected from the title. Lovely writing for a horrifying story.
"Consummation" Cassandra Daucus is about how when you love someone you want to be as close as possible to them. And what could be closer than...?
"Wasteful" by Cat Voleur: "I wish we were not here." Me, too. Me, too.
"Bring Me Skin" by Hussani Abdulrahim is about inherited curses. (That's probably most curses, really?)
"Aspics" are the least unnatural part of this highly unnatural holiday story from Marc J Guillotte. And that's impressive because come on, aspic? Gross.
"Antecessor" Jonathan Olfert. The world is hard. This story was horrible and amazing.
In the epistolary "Yours Deliciously" Vox Villalobos demonstrates why cannibalism is a hobby best pursued solo.
"The Farmer's Arm" Bryan Miller. Learning to back down from a dare is an under-rated skill, kids.
Michael Boulerice "Deli Meat" Dang dude that was not a good luck charm.
Although I contributed a story I haven't read the rest before, so I will comment as I go.
We're off to a nicely ominous start with "The Gourman Society" by Liam Hogan. In context, the mere setting in a retirement home is creepy.
Frank Roger presents a yummy but high-cholesterol "Cryobarbecue" of rich people, the one meat that's guilt-free!
"Eat Your Young" Nadia Steven Rising is a warning not a suggestion. Nourish your children, nourish the land that feeds you.
"To Taste" by Lor Gislason. Rina needs pepper.
"She Consumes Me" by Lauren Carter. Exactly what the title says, in all senses.
"Writer's Block" by Ruth Anna Evans. Ahahahahaha! Yeah, we probably would. I mean, it's for a good cause, right?
"Acquiring the Taste" by Sophie Ingley is apocalyptic rather than mythical, but this feels like a "how to become a wendigo" case study. But I hope if I get stuck in a bunker with a cannibal they're a good cook!
"The Body and the Blood" Dori Lumpkin. Honestly about the most positive outcome one could hope from being picked up by a creepy stranger at a bus stop.
"An Awkward Pause" Sarah Doebereiner. Talk clearly about the Facts of Life with your kids, parents. Include eating (or not eating) peers in this talk.
People get eaten in this one. <-- I'm not apologizing for that terrible pun.
I stand by my classification of "Pondscum" as a romance. I mean, it ends happily for the princess and her new...whatever. Those other characters had it coming.
Ria Hill's young protagonist in "Rolls" doesn't want to eat people. She doesn't want to eat anything! But there are only so many ways to get rid of the incriminating corpse in her bed.
TW for
Rain Corbyn knows how it is. "Eat the rich" is fantasizing: it's only ever the rich who eat us.
"Chew, Spit, Repeat" by J Ambrose is poetic and synesthetic, the opposite of what I expected from the title. Lovely writing for a horrifying story.
"Consummation" Cassandra Daucus is about how when you love someone you want to be as close as possible to them. And what could be closer than...?
"Wasteful" by Cat Voleur: "I wish we were not here." Me, too. Me, too.
"Bring Me Skin" by Hussani Abdulrahim is about inherited curses. (That's probably most curses, really?)
"Aspics" are the least unnatural part of this highly unnatural holiday story from Marc J Guillotte. And that's impressive because come on, aspic? Gross.
"Antecessor" Jonathan Olfert. The world is hard. This story was horrible and amazing.
In the epistolary "Yours Deliciously" Vox Villalobos demonstrates why cannibalism is a hobby best pursued solo.
"The Farmer's Arm" Bryan Miller. Learning to back down from a dare is an under-rated skill, kids.
Michael Boulerice "Deli Meat" Dang dude that was not a good luck charm.
June 14, 2025
Honoured very to be a part of this collection of cannibal horrors.
Well worth a read, and it’s charitable too.
Yummy.
Well worth a read, and it’s charitable too.
Yummy.
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