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Lesser Hungers

by Rien Gray

A city with an appetite

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AlbakiReads Editorial

A city with an appetite

Set in Chicago’s 49th Ward, *Lesser Hungers* brings urban horror into contact with neighborhood life and the aftermath of addiction. Cameron Ciris, a local fixer in recovery, takes on a case involving cannibalized victims while living with an entity acquired after an overdose—one that compels them to perform blood rituals. The investigation leads toward a spreading, eldritch menace tied to the figure of Cameron’s former dealer. The book’s central tension is both bodily and civic: Cameron’s possession makes ownership of their own body uncertain, while the city itself is portrayed as built on death and poised for further transformation.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in urban and eldritch horror set in Chicago.
  • Readers seeking fiction centered on a nonbinary protagonist, addiction recovery, and bodily possession.
  • Readers drawn to horror that links supernatural threats with neighborhood and citywide stakes.

Themes

Urban horrorPossession and bodily autonomyAddiction recoveryCannibalismCity, death, and transformation

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Book overview

There's a haunting in Cameron Ciris's blood, and the city they live in is hungry for every drop.

 

Chicago is like every other American metropolis: built on a foundation of death. Little surprise that when a loving couple in a low-rent apartment cannibalize each other, the police write it off as a bizarre murder-suicide. Cameron-local fixer and addict in recovery-volunteers to take up the case as a favor to their neighborhood, the 49th Ward.

 

A year ago, Cameron overdosed on a hot new party drug and picked up an extra passenger, an entity that forces them to perform rituals written in blood. Being possessed is Cameron's new normal, but as more cannibalized victims turn up, so does an eldritch doppelganger of Cameron's old dealer, hunting them through nightmares and hallucinations.

 

Cameron tracks the molding remnants of their dealer from block to block, discovering a malicious growth that promises to spread through Chicago and give it a whole new shape. With a body not quite their own, Cameron faces the question lurking throughout the urban sprawl: who gets devoured, and who gets to feast?

 

Problem is, they're getting real goddamn hungry.

 

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