Morsel by Carter Keane Published by Tor Nightfire on April 14, 2026
Genres: Horror
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The Blair Witch Project meets The Ritual, with a generous helping of The Menu, in Morsel, a delicious folk horror novella perfect for fans of T. Kingfisher, Cassandra Khaw, and Paul Tremblay.
Lou did what the children of parents with back-breaking, poor paying jobs are supposed to do; pulled up her bootstraps, went to college, and got an office job with coworkers who won’t stop talking about their multi-level marketing scheme disguised as self-betterment.
Determined to lift her ill mother out of poverty before it's too late, and in the spirit of climbing the corporate ladder, Lou accepts an assignment in the rural hills of Ohio. She quickly finds herself stranded in the middle of nowhere with a sabotaged truck, a dog she’s determined to keep safe, and something stalking her through the ancient Appalachian woods.
If she can’t escape the woods in time, she’ll come face to face with the fact that her job isn’t the only thing that wants to eat her alive.
Morsel is a chilling testament to the burden of generational poverty and the all-consuming nature of capitalism, where the monster and the monstrous, in the end, are not the same.
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This book is going to devour you whole. I was not sure what to expect going into this novella but boy I did not anticipate any of this. Lou is trying her best to make ends meet for her and her mother and she cannot seem to catch a break. Her boss decides to switch her job, and Lou has no other options, so she must accept. She heads to rural Ohio with her dog, only to get stranded out there. Things started to go wrong and I was on the edge of my seat waiting to see what would happen next. If you are a fan of horror novels that are a wild ride you should try this.
