April Bold Fork Book Club: UNCANNY GASTRONOMIC, edited by Zara-Louise Stubb

Join Bold Fork Books for our April 2026 book club!

ABOUT BOLD FORK BOOK CLUB
Our food writing section has it all - fiction, memoir, food studies, history, and more. Led by a member of our team, Bold Fork Book Club is a monthly in-shop event where we pick a book to read ahead and discuss together in a group — with snacks!

If you want to learn more about food and meet other members of the Bold Fork community, this is the group for you. NOTE: THE AUTHOR WILL NOT BE IN ATTENDANCE.

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ABOUT THE BOOK
A brush with the mushroom devil whets the appetite. The meat at the werewolf’s table is a dish to relish. Dessert with London’s cannibal club may be the cherry on top.

From fairy tales and folklore focused on magical foods and strange eating came an enduring tradition of writers playing with food and the uncanny. In the fiction of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries this tradition thrived, with themes of supernatural consumption, weird transformation and sensual euphoria as key ingredients.

Raiding this dark pantry of writing, this collection presents a feast of sixteen classic tales, two poems and one essay, with choice morsels by masters of the macabre including Shirley Jackson, Franz Kafka, Angela Carter and Roald Dahl.

ABOUT THE EDITOR
Zara-Louise Stubbs is a freelance writer and PhD researcher in literature. Zara’s current research explores food studies, mysticism, and gendered embodiment in contemporary writing. Zara is interested in all things surreal, subversive, and strange.