But the new wave of cannibal novels is written by women. These books feature man-eaters who are gory, graphic and distinctly feminist. The female cannibal has become a radical figure who satisfies her ...

There’s a new trend in horror fiction: the female cannibal. In Monika Kim’s The Eyes are the Best Part (2025), a college student eats the eyeballs of the men who fetishise her. In Delilah S. Dawson’s ...