Corporate culture is a nightmare, but getting out of the office brings its own problems in Carter Keane’s debut novella – Morsel.

It’s a story about monsters and eldritch beings, about killer cults and evil law-enforcement, about wellbeing scams and a boss from hell – but it’s also a springboard for a whole conversation about the cons (many) and pros (debatable) of capitalism. Carter indulges my devil’s advocacy, before we get back to the matter of strange forest disappearances and horrible shit that happens with bears.

It’s a whole range of ways to feel scared of the world.

Enjoy!

Other books mentioned:

The Ritual (2011), by Adam Nevill
Last Days (2012), by Adam Nevill
All the Fiends of Hell (2024), by Adam Nevill
The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion (2017), by Margaret Killjoy
Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1989), by Frederic Jameson
Debt: The First 500 Years (2011), by David Graeber
Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist (2017), by Kate Raworth
The Cold Vanish: Seeking the Missing in North America’s Wildlands (2020), by Jon Billman
Rust Belt Femme (2020), by Rachael Anne Jolie
Night of the Grizzlies (1969), by Jack Olsen

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