{"id":36485,"date":"2026-07-09T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/?p=36485"},"modified":"2026-05-26T13:10:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T18:10:26","slug":"extremehorror-review-cravings-an-extreme-horror-novelette-by-d-e-mccluskey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/?p=36485","title":{"rendered":"#ExtremeHorror #Review &#8211; Cravings: An Extreme Horror Novelette by D E McCluskey"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/818ypmsuT8S._SL1500_.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"711\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/818ypmsuT8S._SL1500_-683x1024.jpg?resize=474%2C711&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-36486\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/818ypmsuT8S._SL1500_.jpg?resize=683%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 683w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/818ypmsuT8S._SL1500_.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/818ypmsuT8S._SL1500_.jpg?resize=768%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/818ypmsuT8S._SL1500_.jpg?w=1000&amp;ssl=1 1000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/818ypmsuT8S._SL1500_.jpg?w=948 948w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Sarah Todd<\/strong>\u00a0is pregnant.<br><br>She doesn\u2019t believe in cravings, and is determined to live the next\u00a0<em>seven months<\/em>\u00a0giving her baby all they nutrients it needs to grow into a healthy boy, or girl.<br><br><strong>The baby<\/strong>, however, has other plans.<br><br>How far is she willing to go to succumb to her\u2026\u00a0<strong>CRAVINGS<\/strong>?<br><br>From the dark mind of\u00a0<strong>D E McCluskey<\/strong>, author of\u00a0<strong>CRACK,\u00a0The Twelve<\/strong>, and\u00a0<strong>The Contract,<\/strong>\u00a0comes this extremely disturbing novelette.<br><br><em>The baby must have what the baby needs\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/jo.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"158\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/jo.jpg?resize=474%2C158\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25379\" style=\"width:372px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/jo.jpg?w=900&amp;ssl=1 900w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/jo.jpg?resize=300%2C100&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/jo.jpg?resize=768%2C256&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So I&#8217;ve read Zola by this author and that one was fun and gross but this book? Absolutely vile and disgusting and I loved every second of it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I had no idea what to expect when I picked up this book and I&#8217;m so glad I went in blind. With the title being Cravings and also that it&#8217;s an extreme horror, I expected something unhinged but not quite what I read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sarah is pregnant and doesn&#8217;t believe in cravings. Thinks it&#8217;s all in your head and stuff. Until she starts craving something and the rest is history. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This book was so gross and I&#8217;m super glad I have a strong stomach. I remember thinking near the end &#8220;what the heck made the author come up with this?&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you&#8217;re squeamish or don&#8217;t like mention of bodily fluids, you may want to pass on this. If you&#8217;re good with that stuff? Then have fun but don&#8217;t say I didn&#8217;t warn you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">5 stars for weird<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">5 stars for gross<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">5 stars for being unique<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Read in KU &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4dRiApb\">https:\/\/amzn.to\/4dRiApb<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah Todd\u00a0is pregnant. She doesn\u2019t believe in cravings, and is determined to live the next\u00a0seven months\u00a0giving her baby all they nutrients it needs to grow into a healthy boy, or girl. The baby, however, has other plans. How far is she willing to go to succumb to her\u2026\u00a0CRAVINGS? From the dark mind of\u00a0D E McCluskey, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/?p=36485\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">#ExtremeHorror #Review &#8211; Cravings: An Extreme Horror Novelette by D E McCluskey<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1686,1029,1507,30],"tags":[1696],"class_list":["post-36485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-extreme-horror","category-horror","category-kindle-unlimited","category-novella","tag-d-e-mccluskey"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paSW8H-9ut","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36485"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36488,"href":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36485\/revisions\/36488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}