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A spoof on the cozy mystery, the book, called "the mystery to end all mysteries," fooled (almost) everyone. Lastly, Morse was instrumental in the publication of An Old-Fashioned Mystery by the reclusive author Runa Fairleigh. Filled with bad language, sex, and violence, the books alternately scandalized readers ("this book is gratuitous") and blew them away ("Morse has written a book that is at once in the genre of the old-fashioned pulp magazine detective years and a send-up of the genre, and it works on both levels"). These novels' hero, an ultratough detective named Sam Hunter, is a cross between Sam Spade and Conan the Barbarian. Later, Morse did another take on the private-eye genre with The Big Enchilada and Sleaze. Morse 0 Ratings 0 Want to read 0 Currently reading 0 Have read Overview View 4 Editions Details Reviews Lists Related Books Publish Date 1979 Publisher WARNER BOOKS Pages 240 This edition doesn't have a description yet. This horrific and graphic account is not for the squeamish. An edition of The Flesh Eaters (1979) The Flesh Eaters by L. Morse's first book, The Flesh Eaters, is based on a legendary family of cannibals in fifteenth-century Scotland. Morse is best known for his Edgar Award-winning novel, The Old Dick, about a long-retired private eye who gets up for one last case. I went back and read Too Much Horror Fiction’s review after finishing it, and absolutely agree with Will’s claim that The Flesh Eaters is “a must for every horror fan who likes horror fiction nasty, brutish, and short.” Hell yeah.L. It’s written in the present tense, and this makes it feel like watching an utterly Hellish episode of Unsolved Mysteries. The book is called The Flesh Eaters, so I was expecting it to be exploitative, but I was pretty surprised by the end of the first chapter when a young girl helps stab her father death and then rolls around having sex in a pool of his blood. It has cannibalism, rape, incest, and torture, and it has them in abundance. The attraction of this book however, is not its historical accuracy it is the scenes of brutal violence and perversity. The story of Sawney Bean is probably just a legend, and Morse doesn’t stray far from the usual account. Historical fiction is not something that interests me, and if I had known this was based on a “true story”, I might have been deterred.

It’s based on Sawney Bean, a legendary Scottish cannibal. I’m pretty happy that I knew nothing about this book before I started it. I found a copy recently and devoured it in two sittings. cannibals, wendigos, and other beings that feast on human flesh.

I didn’t actually read the review, but the title alone was enough for me to put it on my to-read list. I first saw the title of this book on the Too Much Horror Fiction blog’s list of favourites.