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Carter Keane's Morsel is a delicious horror debut about learning to bite back when the world is determined to eat you alive.
Lou did what the children of parents with backbreaking, poorly paying jobs are supposed to do: pulled up her bootstraps, went to college, and got an office gig with coworkers who won't stop talking about their multilevel marketing scheme disguised as self-betterment.
When Lou accepts a property appraisal assignment in the rural hills of Ohio, she knows it's her last chance to save her job and keep making rent. But she quickly finds herself stranded in the middle of nowhere with a sabotaged truck, her dog, and someone--or something--stalking her through the ancient Appalachian woods.
If she can't escape the woods in time, she'll see firsthand that her job isn't the only thing that wants to eat her alive.
Morsel is The Blair Witch Project meets The Ritual, with a generous helping of The Menu, perfect for fans of T. Kingfisher, Cassandra Khaw, and Paul Tremblay.
"Keane's confident debut heralds the arrival of a gifted horror author… Keane's talent for sunlight horror impresses as the plot builds to a genuinely surprising but fairly clued denouement. Richard Chizmar fans will be thrilled." ―Publishers Weekly
"Readers who love folk horror and anti-capitalist stories will want to go on this journey with Lou and Ripley." ―Library Journal
"Carter Keane writes folk horror for the class war, horror that turns every expectation on its head, horror that is going to stay on my mind. Morsel is just about as working class, punk rock, and entertaining as a story can get." ―Margaret Killjoy, author of The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion
"Morsel is a divinely dark tale about the dwindling space for humanity under capitalism. Rife with horrors both real and supernatural, Keane has crafted a gut-punch of a debut." ―Erin E. Adams, author of Jackal and One of You
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Carter Keane resides in and is inspired by the frequently odd and often horrifying state of Ohio. Keane writes books where the monster and the monstrous, in the end, are not the same. Morsel is their debut novella.
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