Tales from the Menu

What causes the desire to devour one of your own kind? Why would one ever wish to be consumed? Is it simple animal nature unleashed, intimacy gone off the rails, or perhaps something even darker? The answers to these questions call to you from ... The Pale Beyond

In Tales from the Menu, the need to survive can drive nearly anyone toward that forbidden act: All will bend to the hunger.

For the goodhearted, love and lust will more than suffice to build the desired appetite: All will heed the flesh’s call.

For the most chaste and ambitious among us, traditions can be passed down in many insidious ways: All will kneel at the altar of consumption.

At the end of the day, meat is meat, and hunger is hunger. These thirty-three Chefs have prepared for you the finest slabs:

Joel Austin, Catherine Berry, RJ Bostwick, D.S. Burton, Dawn Colclasure, Jim Donohue, Nikki Durbin, Andy Edge, Garry Engkent, Tory Favro, Jason R Frei, Matthew J. Gleason, Lindsey Beth Goddard, Amanda Gostomski, Kay Hanifen, Angel Ibarra, Juliette Jarabek, Benjamin Kardos, Shankar Kshatriya, Lily Lachance, Basile Lebret, Cole Marsh, Jerry MeCaskey, B.S. Miller, Pip Pinkerton, J.R. Roth, Damir Salkovic, Theresa Simms, Shannon Blake Skelton, Charles Switzer, A. Max Traphagan, Candy Walli, Alice Yustas

cannibalism, noun 1. the usually ritualistic eating of human flesh by a human being 2. the eating of the flesh of an animal by another animal of the same kind 3. an act of cannibalizing something