Self-Consumed contains the title story as well as Bagged, Tagged, & Buried. Both tales were featured in the out of print Journals of Horror anthology. They are both reprinted here for the first time and have been polished and edited. In Self-Consumed, a wealthy businessman who killed a young girl while drunk-driving discovers that guilt isn't the only thing that will eat someone alive.

In Bagged, Tagged, & Buried, project Sideboard is a secret division of the FBI that investigates cases of the bizarre and often unexplainable. The cases are called Black Files, and when the upper brass decide to dissolve the department, the downsizing turns gruesome.