Nothing but Blackened Teeth Surprising nobody, this is my favorite Cassandra Khaw book. I love haunted house stories, and I love it when a bunch of people are stuck in an enclosed space together and all the tensions among them rise to the fore. It’s even better if they then maybe kill each other. Lol! Friendship! The house is haunted by the ghost of a bride whose husband died on the way to the wedding. She asked the guests to bury her alive in the foundation of the house, and ever since then they buried a new girl in the…
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By coincidence (OR WAS IT?)1 I read Food of the Gods directly after The Prey of Gods, which has led me to make numerous errors about which book title has the word the in which place. But both are weird, and both left me feeling decidedly unsettled after I turned over the last page. Food of the Gods is a combination of two novellas about Rupert Wong, who works part-time for the lord of hell and part-time as a chef for a particularly powerful ghoul mob boss with a taste for flawlessly prepared human flesh. Ordinarily this is fine for…
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