"In Berman's newest short story collection, the phrase "you are what you eat" is taken to heart; these are stories of men facing strange appetites within their own physicality, within a lover or, perhaps, a stranger's hungers. A young athlete attends an exclusive wrestling camp, but some of the campers are more focused on the unwelcome boys they claim lurk inside their bellies. A fixit man on a mission to retrieve a runaway finds himself forced into impersonating a pulp hero by her captor. Life as a pledge at a New Orleans fraternity is made all the worse when a magical--perhaps cursed?--flask that fills with whatever the bearer desires, yet also causes the drinker to desire the pledge. With stories inspired by Edgar Allan Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, and Ramsey Campbell, the menu has thirteen tales that range from the weird to the humour noir to the monstrous. No digestif is necessary." -from the Lethe Press website https://www.lethepressbooks.com/store/p196/Fit_for_Consumption.html#/
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Contents
- 1In Summer Brokenshort story
- 2The Balm of Sperrgebiet Is the Krokodilshort story
- 3Capturing Jove Lungeshort story
- 4Poetastershort story
- 5He's So Tendershort story
- 6The Letter That Doomed Nosferatushort story
- 7Unwelcome Boysnovelette
- 8The Haferbräutigamshort story
- 9D Is for Deliciousshort story
- 10The Unsolved "Case of the Club Tarrare"short story
- 11Passion, Like a Voice—That Budsshort story
- 12His Mouth Will Taste of Chernobylshort story
- 13Bottom of the Menushort story
