creepy book club

last night i hosted our october book club meeting. i really wish i had taken some pictures, but since the room was lit by candle, i'm not sure they would have turned out well anyway. i'll just have to tell you about what i did and use some stock photos:


this month's book was "the monster of florence," a creepy non-fiction about an italian serial killer in the late 70's-early 80's. he killed couples parking in the italian countryside and did some pretty sick mutilating on the female victims. so, what's more fitting than a dinner of body parts?


main course: adams ribs. these were so easy to make (as long as you plan ahead, they roast for 3.5 hours) and they were SO good. and, yes, i ate meat-it's scary-i had to!

sides: witch fingers (just some asparagus with red almond slivers as finger nails) and mashed potatoes (which i intended to pipe onto plates to look like brains or ghosts, but i broke my icing bag when making cupcakes earlier and figured three trips to the store for one meal was just too many.)


beverage: i bought some green apple jones sodas and made my own "embalming fluid" labels, which i printed on adhesive paper. we figured "vagina juice" was just too gross, although it would have fit very well with the theme.

we ate by candlelight (bleeding candles, i might add) and i had this spooky playlist going in the background.