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COMING TO A PLATE NEAR YOU:
Tales from the Menu
11/11/2026
COMING TO A PLATE NEAR YOU:
Tales from the Menu
11/11/2026
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What causes the desire to devour one of your own kind?
Why would one ever wish to be consumed?
Is it simple animal nature unleashed, intimacy gone off the rails, or perhaps something even darker?
The answers to these questions call to you from ...
The Pale Beyond
In Tales from the Menu, the need to survive can drive nearly anyone toward that forbidden act: All will bend to the hunger.
For the goodhearted, love and lust will more than suffice to build the desired appetite:
All will heed the flesh’s call.
For the most chaste and ambitious among us, traditions can be passed down in many insidious ways:
All will kneel at the altar of consumption.
At the end of the day, meat is meat, and hunger is hunger.
These thirty-three Chefs have prepared for you the finest slabs:
Joel Austin, Catherine Berry, RJ Bostwick,
D.S. Burton, Dawn Colclasure, Jim Donohue,
Nikki Durbin, Andy Edge, Garry Engkent,
Tory Favro, Jason R Frei, Matthew J. Gleason,
Lindsey Beth Goddard, Amanda Gostomski, Kay Hanifen,
Angel Ibarra, Juliette Jarabek, Benjamin Kardos,
Shankar Kshatriya, Lily Lachance, Basile Lebret,
Cole Marsh, Jerry MeCaskey, B.S. Miller,
Pip Pinkerton, J.R. Roth, Damir Salkovic,
Theresa Simms, Shannon Blake Skelton, Charles Switzer,
A. Max Traphagan, Candy Walli, Alice Yustas
cannibalism, noun
the usually ritualistic eating of human flesh by a human being
the eating of the flesh of an animal by another animal of the same kind
an act of cannibalizing something
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Everything but the Tip:
A Blood Slugs Cash Grab is out on PAPERBACK NOW!!!!!!!!!
Everything but the Tip:
A Blood Slugs Cash Grab is out on PAPERBACK NOW!!!!!!!!!
Everything but the Tip: A Blood Slugs Cash Grab is Exploitation Media's calculated corporate attempt to coax you into trying the Blood Slugs if you've somehow resisted their call thus far. AND for those of you who already have "slugs on the brain," we know you're willing to fork over some of that cold, hard moolah simply because you cannot get enough!
BEHOLD the gorgeous cover art by none other than "Your favorite splatterpunk author's favorite splatterpunk author," Oscar FREAKING Brady!
CONSUME the filth within these carefully crafted pages, featuring artwork by none other than Klaus Kinion!
BELIEVE these gut-wrenching testimonials:
"Diabolical, Devious, Mischievous. My Blood Slug YEARNS for more."
- Rob Nelson, Author of Show Me Your Tips
"Only once have I tapped out reading a book, and this was it."
- Asher Dark, Author of When I Die
"The prose is jagged, grotesque, and at times, disturbingly poetic. This isn't horror that entertains. It seeps in. It stains. And once it's in you ... it doesn't leave."
- Amanda Ruzsa, Author of I Hope You Have Nightmares About Me
"The author had me thinking something was going to happen, and then, out of nowhere, something I didn't expect happened."
- Sea Caummisar, Author of the Raised by a Killer series
"A shocking turn of events that was equal parts brutal and strangely beautiful."
- Camille Danciu, Author of On Behalf of All Women
"Get ready for a visceral, grotesque experience that will leave you questioning what's real and what it's like to be truly alive."
- Tory Favro, Author of Piñata: An Extreme Horror Story
"It's going to be a moist ride."
- B.S. Miller, Author of Vestica
"Reading this felt like getting curb stomped by a Philosophy major wearing corpse-paint. 0/10, would recommend."
- J. M. Gokey, Author of The Hatebug
"Transgressive as fuck!"
- Oscar Brady, Author of Ronin
"A disgusting and perverse series written by, what I can only assume to be, an escaped mental patient who chose writing over slashing up summer camps. 5/5 slugs."
- Joel Austin, Author of Fresh Flesh
"I'm sorry to say we're passing on 'Killer Mike and the Blood Slugs.' We don't publish music reviews, and I don't know how [Carnage House] wound up on your radar for this."
- Josh Darling, Editor in Chief of Carnage House
"Too much philosophical bullshit Where was the mayhem and metal?"
- James Oliver, Author of Genital Rot
"The Blood Slugs Forever!"
- Jim Donohue, Author of The Stranger
In one world, Mike is the frontman of a notorious punk band. In another, darker world, he is a serial killer. For every record the band releases in their world, someone is going to die in ours.
Featuring all 5 currently released Killer Mike and the Blood Slugs records:
The Dog Days of Youth
Grandma Got Run Over by a Psycho
A Night on the Town
The Leap of Faith
The Brassey Avenue Massacre
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Submissions for Heartsick NOW OPEN!!!
Submissions for Heartsick NOW OPEN!!!
What lengths would you go for love? To protect a loved one? To make someone love you? Or would you do everything in your power to never feel it again? When does affection turn to obsession? The heart wants what it wants, but when does it want too much?
In Heartsick, we are looking for your short stories to answer those questions. The theme is LOVE: all the shapes it can take and all the ways it can go wrong. We welcome all horror and horror-adjacent works that address the topic. The more unique the better. It just has to address the horrors of LOVE.
Do you have a horror short between 1k - 5k words about the terrors of love gone wrong?
Submissions for our upcoming Horror anthology centered around love, Heartsick, are open now!
ABOUT Exploitation Media
ABOUT Exploitation Media
Exploitation Media is Here. We make stuff. You want to have that stuff. Right now, we mostly just have a couple short books, 1 FAT book on distrubution, and 1 public domain horror book. Throw in a little SWAG merch to round it all out. This is humble beginnings. I can feel you judging me, so don’t. Just stop.
Soon there are going to be some anthologies and multimedia projects that we’re honestly really excited about. See…NOW you want to empty your pockets and give us that startup money. You know you want to.
In the meantime, check out some of the Media we support. Go to our Patreon, if that exists yet (it doesn't). Honestly just give the money directly to us. Throw it at the screen and chant the name "Exploitation Media" until your throat is sore. Or you could get some sick Exploitation Media Merch.
Now for the cold hard truth about Exploitation Media. It was founded whatever year the back of our shirts say... 2001? When Matthew Jon Smith was in a robot-themed punk band called Robo-Dream-Date under the pseudonym, Dr. Rock. Around that era, Matt had been a huge Nirvana fan and had read Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana by Michael Azerrad, several times, where he learned that Kurt Cobain had ambitions of starting his own indie record label. Cobain would have called this label Exploitation Records. Matt drew up the logo in MS Paint and couldn't wait to slap it on something as fast as he could. When Robo-Dream-Date released their first full-length, Matthew convinced his bandmates to use his label name and logo. Thus, Exploitation Records was born.
Here is our greatest achievement to date which was to have our album reviewed by Jim DeRogatis in the Chicago Sun Times. We only reached this level of absolute fame because Matthew Jon Smith's bandmate's dad worked for the paper and was able to hand Jim the press packet.
Robo Dream Date, "Scientific Research is Being Done on Rock"
Robo Dream Date, "Scientific Research is Being Done on Rock"
(Exploitation Records) **1/2
(Exploitation Records) **1/2
Here's a trio from the south suburbs that's made the rarest of commodities circa 2002: a lo-fi art-rock concept album that doesn't stink. The goal in crafting this tongue-in-cheek tale of a society where robots battle over the future of rock would seem to have been a merger of Devo, Ween, and Urge Overkill (via all the "we rock!" posturing). At times, there's a little too much shtick, and the production values are a bit rough on the ears. But you have to hand it to the boys for ambition, and I'll be watching what they do in the future.
Here's a trio from the south suburbs that's made the rarest of commodities circa 2002: a lo-fi art-rock concept album that doesn't stink. The goal in crafting this tongue-in-cheek tale of a society where robots battle over the future of rock would seem to have been a merger of Devo, Ween, and Urge Overkill (via all the "we rock!" posturing). At times, there's a little too much shtick, and the production values are a bit rough on the ears. But you have to hand it to the boys for ambition, and I'll be watching what they do in the future.
Now it is years later. The name, Exploitation Records, has been expanded to include all Media. The logo was made in Photoshop this time instead of MS Paint. That is it. The rest hasn't changed. We here at Exploitation Media have a commitment to art in all of its forms. We would do this for free. But also, put your hands up and give us all your money!
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