Um, he's terrible, but he's definitely no Poe.
You want messed up, read ANYTHING by Edgar Allan Poe, and cannibalizing your half-oyster kids would seem like a pleasant walk in a rosy field.
“…Judge not what a man has done, but judge what he could have done if he was a different bloke altogether. For art thou a leper? And a leper can changeth his spots…” --Rudy Wade, Misfits (Series 4, Episode 8)