If you’ve ever read Titus Andronicus—a scandalous high school teacher broke the school’s ban on this play and let us read it in twelfth grade English lit—there’s a scene at the end in which Titus hosts a dinner party where he exacts his revenge on the evil Tamora, Queen of the Goths and later Empress of Rome, by serving her a meat pie made of her own (rapist) sons, Chiron and Demetrius. Titus also then kills his own daughter, Lavinia, out of mercy as she was horribly victimized by Tamora’s sons, and then Titus kills Tamora and is in turn murdered by another dinner guest, Emperor Saturnius, who is then killed by Lucius, Titus’s son. In one short scene, there are five murders. Bottom line: it’s a bloodbath—with pie.
The dining room at Revelation Cove sort of looks like that right now, guest
