EXCLUSIVE: ‘Meat Eaters’ Is The Cannibal Coming-Of-Age Story of Your Nightmares [Preview]
Last year, Oni Press announced the next stunning installment in its summer 2025 graphic novel lineup, Meat Eaters, from cartoonist Meredith McClaren (Black Cloak). The new story follows a young woman and the monsters that lurk inside of her. And those monsters just so happen to make her crave human flesh. With the series now in comic books, we have an exclusive preview on Meat Eaters to make your mouth water.
Read the full synopsis for Meat Eaters below:
Let it be said that dying is rough. Nineteen-year-old Ashley Moore found this out the hard way.
All Ashley wanted was to keep her head down and work hard until she could escape the small town where she felt she was stagnating. But after waking up one night covered in blood—and irrevocably dead—Ashley finds her foolproof plan for getting out has gone up in smoke, and something within her has changed.
Without a heartbeat and with a disturbing craving for fresh—preferably bloody—meat, Ashley finds herself privy to a world that exists just beneath our own: a world of ghouls and monsters and things that go bump in the night. Despite her desire to be left alone—and to not think about the night of her death at all—Ashley is slowly drawn into the realm of the unusual, getting advice from ancient vampires, dodging angry pack leaders, and becoming the reluctant big sister to werewolves Motley and Harrison. As she does, she finds it increasingly difficult to put away the parts of herself she wishes to ignore—namely, what happened that fateful night she stopped breathing. The truth, it turns out, can’t stay buried forever.
McClaren told Dread Central, “A big theme in Meat Eaters is that no matter what you’re going through, and it can be pretty big stuff, everything around you just keeps happening. And it never stops. Sometimes you can even use it as a coping mechanism. Just turn off the part of your brain that is freaking out and focus on class, or groceries, or the werewolf in the woods. It doesn’t work for very long. Big things are big, and they don’t tuck themselves away very easily.”
She added, “Somehow, you have to figure out how to juggle both of them, or one of them comes crashing in and makes things worse. Sometimes you could be dead. And you’ll still have to pass LIT101.”
Check out our exclusive excerpt from the new series:
Meat Eaters is out now wherever you buy comics.
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