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 fo
A Symposium on the Strange, the Weird, and the Uncanny
✍ Scribed by Adam Phillips, André Aciman, Thomas Laqueur, Stephen Greenblatt and Thom Gunn
- Book ID
- 124812498
- Year
- 2001
- Weight
- 886 KB
- Volume
- 85
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0275-1410
- DOI
- 10.2307/4385022
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