Potboiler: NYPD’s ‘Cannibal Cop’ tests literary appetites with ‘extremely violent’ horror novel

Gilberto Valle might not be a bloodthirsty cannibal – but he hopes to make a buck off of fantasising like one.

The disgraced NYPD cop, who spent almost two years in prison on charges that he was plotting to kidnap, slaughter and eat young women, has penned an “extremely violent” horror novel that he hopes will rack in some much-needed cash.

“Even though I’ve been completely exonerated, all this stuff about ‘Cannibal Cop’ is still there,” Valle, 34, told the New York Daily News on Monday. “Writing the book comes down to me trying to find a way to make a living.”

Valle, widely known by his infamous cannibal moniker, was arrested in 2012 after his then-wife found disturbing posts about an urge to kill and devour women on their shared computer.

Valle’s subsequent arrest and divorce led to a media frenzy. But all the while, Valle maintained innocence, and he was eventually vindicated after successfully arguing that his cannibalistic curiosity was all part of a deviant, but fictional, sexual fantasy.

Valle’s new book, A Gathering of Evil, explores his fascination with killing and eating women through the lens of a group of sadists who kidnap two young New Yorkers.