Jeffrey Caston’s Reviews > The Butchered Writers Present Prime Cuts: A Savory Cannibalistic Horror Anthology > Status Update

Dueling perspectives of hunted and hunters unfolds in Andy H's story "Hunting Trip."

Holy recycling Batman! That is, if we consider a very dark way of approaching the post funeral meal in Winona Morris's "After the Funeral, We Eat."

When the Butchered Writers announced a cannibalism theme I was pumped because it gave me the chance to return to Pacifica and the "Food" universe. I expanded on Pacifican culture and told the "origin" story of Jesse, the MC in the first Food short story. I'm so happy that it's in here and that people can have the chance to see what made him who he was before donating ham to a hungry royal family.

DL Garvin has a sort of Dickensian tale, complete with a desperate orphanage, and everything, in "The Orphanage." But it's cool because it didn't go in the direction I thought it would.

Then a tale that sort of reminded me of how Lost might have gone completely dark and nuts is told by Sarah Moon's "Wreckage."

Andy H. serves up some more survival horror with a chilling Lord of the Flies twist in "Hunger Pangs."

Baaauh-chiikee-baaauh-baaauh...

Colt Henderson's "The Love Tree" creates some spice. An nice couple finds a nice little spot to have a romantic camping trip. Then... (gasp).

Horrotica AND cannibalism...? Um... sure, why not. (Don't judge me. LOL!)

It was a pleasant surprise to see a continuing tale told by DL Garvin in this volume. His story in Prime Cuts, titled "The Facilitator Part 2" takes off and continues the underlying story he told in the prior anthology TBW published about the dark web. So this was pretty cool. And I'm guess this was the story from which this anthology got its title.

Raven Tomes offers up a cat and mouse of a different kind that ends with a different kind of entree in "The Interview."

Nora Peevy puts forth a pretty chilling and convincing tale of how isolation and fear can devolve into destructive ways in "Fear."