Essays on Ravenous Souls, Toothsome Monsters, and Vicious Cravings.

Hansel and Gretel. Turkish Delight. Viscous blood and meaty gristle. From the rituals that surround mealtime to the culture-spanning tales of insatiably hungry monsters, food is often used as both tool and metaphor in speculative fiction. In this award-winning collection of fifteen essays from Octavia Cade, the intersection of food and horror is explored in bone-crunching, marrow-slurping detail.

You are what you eat, except when you aren't.

Octavia Cade is a speculative fiction writer from New Zealand. She has a PhD in science communication, and her academic work often focuses on how science is presented in horror and scifi.