Exquisite Corpse – Contemporary Cannibal Literature

Maren Yearly is a young woman who wants the same things we all do. She wants to be someone people admire and respect. She wants to be loved. But her secret, shameful needs have forced her into exile. When her mother abandons her the day after her sixteenth birthday, Maren goes looking for the father she has never known and finds much more than she bargained along the way – including herself.

Food critic Dorothy Daniels loves what she does. Dorothy loves sex as much as she loves food, and while she has struggled to find a long-term partner that can keep up with her, she makes the best of her single life. But there is something within Dorothy that’s different from everyone else, and having suppressed it long enough, she starts to embrace what makes Dorothy uniquely, terrifyingly herself. Dorothy Daniels show us what happens when a woman finally embraces her superiority.

With her life in disarray after her Appa’s extramarital affair and subsequent departure, Ji-won, plagued by horrifying yet enticing dreams of bloody rooms full of eyes, is overcome by hunger and rage that can only be sated by deceit, manipulation, and murder as victims accumulate around her college campus.

Chia runs one of the best restaurants in Abuja, Nigeria, and is renowned for her delicious hot pepper soup which may or may not contain a secret, sacrificial ingredient. When Claire visits Chia’s restaurant with her family, she is offered the opportunity to exact revenge on the men that have wronged her throughout her life.

The House, an elite sorority, promises futures full of success and wealth. However, having it all does not come without a cost, and two women decide if it is truly worth it.

Margot and Mama have lived by the forest ever since Margot can remember. They spend quiet days together in their cottage, waiting for strangers – strays – to knock on their door. Mama loves the strays – she feeds them wine, keeps them warm, and then picks their bodies apart for dinner. When a stray named Eden turns up in the heart of a snowstorm, Margot must face the possibility that her life is changing for good.

Aymar Castle has been under siege for six months. Food is running low and there has been no sign of rescue. But just as the survivors consider deliberately thinning their number, the Constant Lady and her Saints arrive, providing healing for the sick and food of mysterious origin for the residents. They only demand, in exchange, complete cult-like adoration.

Working at the local processing plant, Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humans–though no one calls them that anymore. After a virus makes animal meat poisonous, human meat becomes legal. Marcos tries to practice cogitative dissonance, until one day he meets a human that reminds him of his humanity.

Before the nightmares began, Yeong-hye and her husband lived an ordinary, controlled life. But the dreams–invasive images of blood and brutality–torture her, driving Yeong-hye to purge her mind and renounce eating meat altogether. Her family, inconvenienced by this derivation of their norm, use increasingly more perverse tactics to regain their control.

After landing on Earth, an alien must figure out how to survive. Shapeshifting into human forms, the alien begins to hunt for food and practice modelling human behavior which leads to existential questions about the meaning of life and what it is to be human.

Ronny experiences multiple traumatic events over one summer and develops a unique, hedonistic coping mechanism.

A young, mixed-race vampire must find a way to balance her deep-seated desire to live amongst humans with her incessant hunger.