BOOK REVIEW | CHEW ON THIS | ROBERT ESSIG

 

Today’s review is an anthology of horror stories based around the premise of food. The book was released 24 DECEMBER 2024 and is published by Blood Bound Books.

Chew on This! has everything you need to satiate your appetite for the strange and macabre. 

Tonight’s menu is a fifteen-course meal of subtle and atmospheric tales all the way down to the grisly, blood-drenched extremes.

Creepy restaurants, treacherous take-out, forbidden feasts, and more!

We’ve got horror so good you can taste it!

Dig in!

Chew On This is an anthology of short stories revolving around food. The stories all have different flavours, ranging from comedy horror to the downright disturbing.
I have to say that I really enjoyed this collection of short stories. Some of them have a good frisson of black humour in them (think League of Gentlemen kind of humour) and some of the stories are just out and out gross.

The first story, Meat or be Meaten introduces us to the anthology and tells the tale from a cat’s perspective as we learn of the shenanigans he gets up to after his owner dies, leaving two meat golems in the house unsupervised. The story is bizarre, with a generous shake of comedic seasoning.

There are a couple of other stories in this collection that are definitely going to stay with me. A Woman’s Work is one of those stories. This one started off quite shocking and just kept getting worse from there, leaving the me with a jaw dropping ending that made give the book a double take when the realisation of what had happened hit me in the face

As you progress through the stories, the more disturbing some of the tales become.
Throughout the book there are tales of ghosts, cannibalism, meat golems, sweeny toddish corn dog vendors and a whole host of other monsters, both human and monster.

If you like your horror stories with a little bite, then this anthology could well be to your taste. But be warned, some of these stories will probably gross you out. Chew on this is not for those of you with a delicate disposition and you will definitely not look at food the same way again