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Author
Series
Miss Peregrine volume Related works
Language
English
Description
This collection of stories, written for peculiar eyes only, presents unusual folklore that are a formative part of the upbringing of peculiar children everywhere. Encoded within their pages are the locations of hidden loops, the secret identities of certain important peculiars, and other information that could aid a peculiar's survival in this hostile world. The stories are annotated with historical and contextual insights that Nullings himself found...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xviii, 332 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Eating one's own kind is completely natural behavior in thousands of species, including humans. Throughout history we have engaged in cannibalism for reasons relating to famine, burial rites, and medicinal remedies. Cannibalism has been used as a form of terrorism but also as the ultimate expression of filial piety. With unexpected wit and a wealth of knowledge, Bill Schutt, a research associate at the American Museum of Natural History, takes us...
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A darkly humorous exploration of how a complete devotion to food can have unforeseen and shocking consequences When a group of food-obsessed academics at Oxford University form a secret dining society, they happily devote themselves to investigating exotic and forgotten culinary treasures, until a dish is suggested that takes them all by surprise. Professor Arthur Plantagenet has been told he has a serious heart problem and decides that his death...
Author
Language
English
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Description
When a group of cannibal savages kidnaps settlers from the small town of Bright Hope, an unlikely team of gunslingers, led by Sheriff Franklin Hunt (Kurt Russell), sets out to bring them home. But their enemy is more ruthless than anyone could have imagined, putting their mission – and survival itself – in serious jeopardy. Kurt Russell (The Hateful Eight, Tombstone) leads an all-star cast, including Patrick Wilson (Insidious), Matthew Fox ("Lost")...
Author
Publisher
Pavilion
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
80 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
'Every dish in this very unique cookbook has one thing in common: the main ingredient is children! Many famous culinary witches have contributed-- from Barfa Stew-Wart to India's favorite Kideeta Skingh and Janie Groviller from Britain-- and each of their recipes is introduced by the general editor Esmelia Sniff. Recipes range from such tangy delights as Seared Tina in Boy Sauce on a Bed of Fragrant Lice to the more filling Bratwurst and Upset Cabbage...
10) Husk
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Charlie is a Husker, on the prowl in the New Hampshire wilderness, when he falls in love with one of "them": a girl named Jill. Loving Jill means leaving the Husk clan, with its gruesome cannibalistic rituals, and that will be far more difficult -- and dangerous -- than Charlie could have foreseen. It's only in New York City that the secret to ending his terrible cravings may reveal itself -- if it doesn't kill him and everything he has grown to love...
Author
Series
Hannibal Lecter novels volume 3
Language
English
Description
A serial murderer known by a grotesquely apt nickname--Buffalo Bill-is stalking particular women. A young F.B.I. trainee is assigned to interview a mental patient--a brilliant psychiatrist and killer, for insights into the crime.
12) Eating Raoul
Series
Criterion collection volume 625
Language
English
Formats
Description
A bawdy, gleefully amoral tale about a prudish married couple feeling put upon by the swingers who live in their apartment building, who, one night by accident, discover a way to simultaneously realize their dream of opening a little restaurant and rid themselves of the 'perverts' down the hall.
Publisher
National Geographic Channel
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (45 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"National Geographic joins author and explorer Piers Gibbon as he investigates one of mankind's ultimate taboos: cannibalism. Gibbon treks into the rain forest of Papua New Guinea to find tribe members who ate human flesh. And he meets members of the once feared Biami tribe to witness their ritual techniques"--Container.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Vietnam vet Norman Hopper's quiet domestic life is shattered by the return of Charlie Bukowski, a combat buddy who dredges up terrifying flashbacks of flesh-eating in the war-torn jungles. Now on the run from the law after taking a bite out of an unwilling victim, Charlie begs Norman to help him get out of town with another fellow veteran, Tom. Soon the ragtag team of cannibals is spreading a deadly contagion through the city before heading into the...
Author
Publisher
Zoland Books
Pub. Date
1997.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
273 pages ; 21-22 cm
Language
English
Description
The dean of a museum in England has been murdered and his body served as a series of dishes, ranging from roast dean to fried dean. Suspicion falls on the ethnology department whose members are rumored to have been dabbling in cannibalism. Norman de Ratour of the registrar's office investigates.
Series
Publisher
The University of Arkansas
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
x, 282 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Long before the founding of the Jamestown, Virginia, colony and its Starving Time of 1609-1610 - one of the most famous cannibalism narratives in North American colonial history - cannibalism played an important role in shaping the human relationship to food, hunger, and moral outrage. Why did colonial invaders go out of their way to accuse women of cannibalism? What challenges did Spaniards face in trying to explain Eucharist rites to Native peoples?...
18) Unreconciled
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Series
Language
English
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Description
"Where does one put a messianic cult of practicing cannibals? That becomes the question when Ashanti appears in Donovan's skies. She was designed for no more than four years in space. It's taken ten. The crew has sealed the transportees onto a single deck--and over the years, the few survivors down there have become monsters. Lead by the messiah, Batuhan, they call themselves the Unreconciled. Supervisor Kalico Aguila settles them at remote Tyson...
19) Road to Zanzibar
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (91 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
American sideshow performers Chuck and Fearless are stranded in the jungle after their human cannonball act starts a fire that burns down the circus. They become entangled with a larcenous pair of entertainers from Brooklyn anxious to separate them from their bankroll. Duped into accompanying the ladies on a safari, Chuck and Fearless soon find themselves in the clutches of savage tribesmen who pit Fearless against a gorilla in a wild wrestling match....
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1973, four teenagers, Erin, Morgan, Kemper, and Andy, are driving through Texas on a road trip when they pick up a hitchhiker who is on her way to Mexico to score some dope. But when they pass through a small town, they see a bloody and distraught girl wandering by the roadside. After stopping to help her, they realize she's been involved in something horribly traumatic. As they piece together the story, the 5 teens are drawn into...
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