Cravings: An Extreme Horror Novelette

by D.E. McCluskey

Sarah Todd doesn’t believe in cravings. She’s pregnant and determined to live the next seven months giving the baby all they nutrients it needs to grow into a healthy baby boy, or girl. The baby, however, has other plans. How far is she willing to go to succumb to her… CRAVINGS?From the dark mind of D E McCluskey, author of CRACK and The Twelve, comes this disturbing novelette. The baby must have what the baby needs…

Genres: Horror, Splatterpunk, Short Stories, Dark, Fiction

63 pages, Paperback

Published May 6, 2021

About the author

I love horror, and I love Christmas. Some would say that the two are not mutually associated, I would tell you different.

I started writing at Christmas, back in the days of yore. I was reading The Night Before Christmas, by Clement Clarke Moore to my daughter who was too excited to sleep. But, I used my secret weapon, my boring voice she was soon catching the right amount of zzzzz's... As I tiptoed out of the room, giving Santa the space he needed to do his bit, I thought to myself, you know what? I could write something like that...

So I did...

The good Behaviour Act was written, the first story in Interesting Tymes, my very first publication.

I live in sunny Liverpool in the UK with my partner and daughters, I used to work in IT but don't anymore, and am the happier person for it. I love football, music and film... I also enjoy long walks, pretty flowers, and gratuitous violence and nudity...

I can be found mostly on Facebook @demccluskey_author
or on Twitter @dammagedpro @demccluskey1

my website is www.dammaged.com

Reviews

[MadameD · Rating 5 out of 5]

OMG !!!😰
It’s the most disgusting novelette I ever read. And I hope, I’ll never read something like that,ever! 😵‍💫🤢🤮
This book, is my limit. There’s too much 💩.
But, I managed to laugh, despite my disgust, when I read about the encounter with the homeless lady.
Thankfully, I never had that kind of craving!!🤣
This short story is, very well written, and for me, it was very nauseating and totally unexpected.
I will not recommend this book. Read it if you wish; you’re free to read what you want.😄

[Janie · Rating 4 out of 5]

For an author who is admittedly not completely comfortable writing extreme horror, D E McCluskey does a bang-up job with this nauseatingly repulsive novelette. I mean this as a compliment. As someone who reads a lot of extreme horror, this story left me satisfied, if not a bit queasy. I just need to avoid bathrooms for a while...

[River Dixon · Rating 5 out of 5]

Damn.


Damn.


Exceptionally well written and even more exceptionally disgusting. I had to brush my teeth after this one.

[Diane · Rating 5 out of 5]

I've got to give this book 5🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟's or 5💩💩💩💩💩's, it was a vile, disgusting, dirty, sick,stomach wrenching delightful read....I loved it...even though I actually gagged at the last part of the book... I'm not giving anything away....you will have to read it to find out why!!! But DO NOT attempt to eat anything whilst reading this....you honestly won't keep it down 🤮🤢🤮🤢🤮🤢

[Peter Caffrey · Rating 4 out of 5]

Cravings is a lot of shit, literally. To be honest, you can pretty much see where the story is going, but it doesn’t suffer as a result. It manages to combine shock tactics and gross imagery, while retaining a sense of humour, and it’s the humour which prevents it from being one dimensional. DE McCluskey doesn’t often dip into the world of extreme, but in Cravings he goes right down the pan!

[Mounkey · Rating 4 out of 5]

Welp. This one definitely took the cake for most disgusting 🤢

Get yer barf bag. It’s a doozy.

A bit linear and wish it had other gore or torture or horror, but the short story kicks off quick with a bang.

Some of the most grossest descriptions of the subject matter are written hahaha

Thanks to MadameD for the suggestion!

Oh I’m trying to figure out what actually is on the cover image…

[Simon McHardy · Rating 5 out of 5]

McCluskey puts the splatter in splatterpunk. Surprisingly well written for something so vile.

[John The Crippledgimp · Rating 5 out of 5]

Well if ya have a craving for 💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩 this one's for you just fucking gross so it obviously gets 5 stars for making me say wtf and dry heave every damn page. 💩💩💩💩💩 everywhere😆😆😆.

[Melanie Bouthillette · Rating 5 out of 5]

What can you say but what a shit show of a ride this was. Very well written and disgustingly vile.

[Corrina Morse · Rating 5 out of 5]

**REVIEW**

I'd Not Heard Of This Book Or Author Until Sean Hawker Posted It Today......I Had To Get It And I Read It Straight Away!!!!
WARNING!! SERIOUSLY, DO NOT READ WHILE EATING, OR EVEN THINKING ABOUT EATING!!

This Was Probably The Grossest Story I've Read In A Long Time, Maybe Ever!! I Shouted Out "NO" More Than Once, In Disbelief That The Author Was Really Going To Go There....Oh, He Went There!!!!

It Was Utterly, Utterly Vile, But Really Well Written And I Really "Enjoyed" It!! Simon Mchardy You Have A Serious Rival Here....💩🤣

5 Out Of 5 Vom Faces From Me 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

[Nikki · Rating 5 out of 5]

And people thought my cravings of cucumbers dipped in chocolate was weird and bizarre.

This one was pretty disgusting. I had to stop reading it at one point because I’m at the fair, it was raining, and was sitting across from the horse barn, which enhanced this book a little to much 🤮

[Ryder Kinlay · Rating 5 out of 5]

Okay, I finally read it!!

Ummm, hmmm, it was such a vile but well written story! I feel dirty for having enjoyed it. Like yuk!

Dave is a talented author, moving his other extreme horror books up my ridiculous TBR pile.

Don’t read this if you can’t handle your shit.

[Tara Losacano · Rating 4 out of 5]

Absolutely disgusting!! I loved it 😁 4/5 skulls💀

[Nikolas Robinson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Pickles, raw meat, even toilet paper, I've heard of some peculiar cravings experienced by pregnant women. For Sarah, her impulsive craving for a burger on the way home from an ultrasound was only the beginning. She doesn't discover the true meaning of craving until she rushes to the bathroom after devouring that meal.
McCluskey hits us with a barrage of revolting set pieces devoted to Sarah fulfilling her new and increasingly disgusting cravings from that point on. We're unable to turn away as we witness the vile, superbly detailed filth unfolding before us until everything in the first-time mother's life spirals out of control as she desperately seeks to provide her unborn child with what it needs.
The best part is that none of this feels like shock and revulsion simply for the sake of creating something gross. There's something more behind the mischievous and perverse imagination on display here. McCluskey manages to make us question things along the way.
How far will a parent go to provide what they believe their child needs from them?
How much willpower and control does one have in reserve when faced with an overwhelming, all-consuming impulse like a pregnancy craving?
How hard is it to clean certain substances out of one's clothing after ravenously digging into a truly messy meal?
I hope I never have the answers to any of these questions, and I dearly hope that McCluskey's answer to the first two questions is not what we discover in these pages.

[Renée · Rating 4 out of 5]

Well, shit. And there we have it. One of the most vilest books I’ve ever read. 🤢💩😂

[Mrsgmamma · Rating 3 out of 5]

Sarah is pregnant and starts to develop a weird craving, but it ain’t like no normal craving, she starts to crave the taste of poop. This gets pretty vile and disgusting. Sarah gets the need for it so badly she starts hiding in stalls and waiting for people to leave so she can eat theirs, she visits her husband that’s in a coma and has a colostomy bag and starts sucking it dry. This shit is vile!!!

[Natalie Pointer · Rating 4 out of 5]

Absolutely FOUL LMAO…. I had to give my stomach a break before powering through to the end. But, it was a nice, quick, nasty, diabolical read.

[KillerBunny · Rating 4 out of 5]

Yuck!! If you want to be disgusted forever this is the best book for that, it's really short and fast paced. This book will satisfy your craving for sure if you're a splatterpunk fan!

[J.B. · Rating 5 out of 5]

Sick, twisted and gory...

This is probably the most disgusting book I've ever read... and I loved it! So many authors are afraid to write extreme things like this, but I say, be brave!!

[Stephen Cooper · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ewwwwwwwwww

[Victoria · Rating 4 out of 5]

I zoomed through this book thinking that it couldn't get any worse. But *sh*t* it sure did. A disgusting, smelly trip to see just how bad ones cravings can be. It was really intense. Please do not be eating anything while reading this. It's not for a weak stomach.

[Paul · Rating 5 out of 5]

What a shit show

This book is a total and awesome shit show .Mr. McCluskey delivers a hot steamy pile of pure unadulterated shit fest

[Jillian · Rating 5 out of 5]

What a disgustingly good quick read! Loved it 😌

[alyssa .]

This was so disgusting 🤮

[Daniel Lorn · Rating 4 out of 5]

Having read Zola and The Special Stuff by the same author, I knew exactly what I was in for with Cravings, and it certainly didn't disappoint!
It's weird reading a book out of the corner of your eye whilst pulling a face and dreading the next scene, but this was why I picked this story up. Sometimes, I need to be grossed out, and McCluskey never lets me down!
Cravings is a brilliantly disgusting tale which had me close to vomiting!

[Todd Love · Rating 4 out of 5]

Stomach Turning short tale. Cravings will grab you by the bag and squeeze out every last drop.

[Ashley Rae · Rating 5 out of 5]

Absolutely revolting…in the best way.

[The_5ft_reader · Rating 5 out of 5]

Oh Mr McCluskey first with the cheese now this omg behave 🤣🤣
Can't say I enjoyed it because the subject is sooooo gross but its well written and worth a read if you think you can stomach it!

[paigeafterpage]

I’m not sure what to rate this one yet.

[Renee · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of the nastiest books I have ever read. 5 stars.