The Uncanny Gastronomic: Strange Tales of the Edible Weird ed. Zara-Louise Stubbs (The British Library, July 23, 2023, 978-0-7123-5428-8, £9.99, 288pp, tp, an, cover by Sandra Gómez) [British Library Tales of the Weird]
Details supplied by Mike Ashley.
- 9 · An Aperitif · Zara-Louise Stubbs · in
- 23 · An Appetizer: Human Horror
- 25 · The Laboratory · Robert Browning · pm Hood’s Magazine and Comic Miscellany June 1844
- 31 · The Measure of My Powers · M. F. K. Fisher · ex from The Gastronomical Me, Duell, Sloane, Pearce, 1943
- 39 · A Fasting-Artist · Franz Kafka; translated by J. A. Underwood · ss Franz Kafka: Stories 1904-1924 by Franz Kafka, tr. J. A. Underwood, Macdonald, 1981
translated from the German.
- 53 · Like Mother Used to Make · Shirley Jackson · ss The Lottery by Shirley Jackson, Farrar Strauss, 1949
- 68 · A Main Course: Supernatural Appetites
- 69 · Goblin Market · Christina Rossetti · pm The Goblin Market and Other Poems by Christina Rossetti, 1862
- 91 · The Vampire Maid · Hume Nisbet · ss Stories Weird and Wonderful by Hume Nisbet, F.V. White, 1900
- 101 · Gabriel-Ernest · Saki · ss The Westminster Gazette May 29 1909
- 111 · To Serve Man · Damon Knight · ss Galaxy Science Fiction November 1950
- 123 · The Company of Wolves · Angela Carter · ss Bananas #7, Spring 1977
- 139 · #54 · Jim Crace · vi The New Yorker May 7 2001, as “Wild Fungi”
- 143 · A Palate Cleanser
- 145 · The Watering Place · Virginia Woolf · ss The Complete Shorter Fiction of Virginia Woolf by Virginia Woolf, Chatto, 1985
- 149 · Dessert: A Taste for Human Flesh
- 151 · Cannibalism in the Cars · Mark Twain · ss The Broadway November 1868
- 165 · The Price of Wiggins’s Orgy · Algernon Blackwood · ss The Lost Valley and Other Stories by Algernon Blackwood, Nash, 1910
- 191 · A Madman’s Diary · Lu Xun; translated by Xianyi Yang & Gladys Yang · ss The New-Year Sacrifice and Other Stories by Lu Xun, tr. Yang Xianyi & Gladys Yang, The Chinese University Press, 2002
- 207 · Pig · Roald Dahl · ss Kiss, Kiss by Roald Dahl, Knopf, 1960
- 235 · A Digestif: On Human Love
- 237 · Berenice · Edgar Allan Poe · ss Southern Literary Messenger March 1835
- 249 · Witches’ Loaves · O. Henry · ss The Argosy March 1904, as by Sydney Porter
- 257 · Lovers · Silvina Ocampo; translated by Daniel Balderston · ss Thus Were Their Faces by Silvina Ocampo, tr. Daniel Balderston, New York Review Books, 2015
translated from the Spanish (Las Invatadas, 1961).
- 263 · Under the Jaguar Sun · Italo Calvino; translated by William Weaver · nv Under the Jaguar Sun by Italo Calvino, tr. William Weaver, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1988
translated from the Italian (“Sapore sapere”, FMR, Summer 1982).
- 287 · A Note on the Illustrations · [uncredited] · ms
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