Eaters of the Dead Kevin Wetmore
Event details
Every culture has monsters that eat us, and every culture recoils in horror when we eat ourselves. From Grendel to Sawney Bean and from the Ghuls of ancient Persia to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, our fear of being consumed is both universal and terrifying.
Kevin Wetmore, author of Eaters of the Dead, explores monsters that eat the dead: ghouls, cannibals, wendigos and other beings that feast on human flesh. Moving from myth through history to contemporary popular culture, considering ancient Greek myths of feeding humans to the gods, sky burial in Tibet and Zoroastrianism and actual cases of cannibalism in modern societies, he will examine those that consume corpses and what they tell us about ourselves and our fears.
This event will take place live on Zoom Webinar. You will receive a link to join a couple of days before the event and a reminder an hour before. During the event, you can ask questions via a Q&A function, but audience cameras and microphones will remain muted throughout.
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You can buy copies of many of our speakers’ books from Fox Lane Books, a local independent bookseller and Festival partner. In some cases, author signed bookplates are available too.
About the speaker
Kevin J Wetmore Jr is Professor of Theatre Arts at Loyola Marymount University, US. He is author and Bram Stoker Award-nominated editor of many books, including Post-9/11 Horror in American Cinema (2012) and Uncovering Stranger Things (2018). His latest book is Eaters of the Dead: Myths and Realities of Cannibal Monsters (Reaktion, 2025).
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