The Nightmare Before Dinner

Craft a spooktacular spread inspired by iconic creepy films and characters with over 50 deadly delicious recipes for food, desserts, and drinks. Gather ’round the haunted table, where every day is Halloween! Fans of The Nightmare Before Christmas, Beetlejuice, and The Evil Dead will love this goth-inspired cookbook from Beetle House, the Halloween-themed restaurant in New York and Los Angeles that celebrates Tim Burton’s unforgettable films and characters.

Inside you’ll find eerie appetizers, sinister sides, cauldron-worthy soups and salads, macabre mains, devilish desserts, and creepy cocktails—all paired with full-color photography that sets a deliciously dark mood. With vegan and vegetarian substitutions included for every recipe, plus a bonus chapter on hosting goth-themed parties, this cookbook makes it easy to bring the magic of Halloween into your kitchen all year long.

Recipes Include:

• Beetle Pie, inspired by Beetlejuice – a brilliant-green homemade pistachio pudding with a crunchy chocolate crust that evokes the corpse-fed grass and rich soil of a graveyard, and seedy and sweet blackberry jam that mimics the texture of blood and bugs
• Edward Burger Hands, inspired by Edward Scissorhands – a juicy burger with a Sriracha cream sauce, stuffed with smoked bacon, fried egg, pepper jack cheese, and avocado; with a pair of scissors shoved through it to keep it closed
• Silence of the Lamb Chops, inspired by Silence of the Lambs – a tasty lamb dish with a buttery mushroom and apple sauce, made gory with splashes of raspberry glaze
• Cheshire Mac and Cheese, inspired by Alice in Wonderland – a sweet-and-spicy take on one of America’s beloved comfort foods, served in a teacup
• The Fleet Street Martini, inspired by Sweeney Todd – a bright-red martini featuring Fireball Cinnamon Whiskey; pair with equally gory Love It Pot Pie

Hardcover / 144 pages

Dimensions: 6.75" x 8.5"