Today’s Summer of Horror theme is “strange appetites”—books whose characters are consumed with unusual hungers. Many of these deal with cannibalism, but all deal with out of the ordinary culinary cravings. For this list, I have left off creatures like vampires and werewolves, otherwise it would be way too long! This is a mix of books I have read and books on my TBR, listed in (mostly) alphabetical order:
The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean. Strange appetite: books.
Carrying by Samantha Josephs. Strange appetite: I haven’t read this, but from the description I’m assuming the MC’s appetite isn’t normal at all! Have you read it?
The Dead Husband Cookbook by Danielle Valentine. Strange appetite: human flesh.
Eat the Ones You Love by Sarah Maria Griffin. Strange appetite: human blood.
The Flesh I Want by Todd S. Jordan. Strange appetite: a beautiful, blood soaked woman living at the bottom of a well demands wine, live animals, and who knows what else?
Greedy by Callie Kazumi. Strange appetite: Not sure, but I suspect there’s more to this than regular food…
A Healthy Appetite by Katie Huttlestone. Strange appetite: a vegetarian woman who joins a clinical trial for a cancer cure begins to crave meat—and not just animal meat.
The Lamb by Lucy Rose. Strange appetite: humans!
Milk, Bread, Teeth by Amy Twigg. Strange appetite: A woman with an insatiable appetite will consume almost anything…
The Eyes Are the Best Part by Monika Kim. Strange appetite: human eyes and more…
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