Nico Claux, 53, who was jailed in France after a string of violent acts, told a podcast he developed a fascination as a child and that the curiosity turned into a dark craving.
According to him, his obsession started after his grandfather's death and deepened when he read about the notorious cannibal, Issei Sagawa.
He explained: 'I started having fantasies about biting, tearing flesh apart with my teeth, psychopathic fantasies. It was a fetish. My first job was as a morgue worker.
'I worked in a morgue in Paris. In France at the time, there was no formal education to become a morgue worker.
'You were a hospital orderly, and they would say, 'Are you interested in that job?' and you would get it.
'When I first started to work in the morgue, I saw how easy it was when I was left alone for the autopsies to get strips of flesh from the bodies and eat them.
'First it was raw, and then I'd cut little strips, brought them home and cooked them several ways.'
Claux added that the tiny portions he stole from the morgue were not enough to satisfy his appetite, so he moved on to targeting a living victim.
He admitted to murdering Thierry Bissonier, a man he met online, saying the killing was driven by his need for human meat. Bissonier, a homosexual man, was shot in the head multiple times, triggering a month-long search for Claux.
'The goal was not just murder for the sake of murder,' he said. 'It was to get the meat.
'Because I had already been eating small strips of meat in the morgue, and I had developed this craving. I wanted to kill to harvest the meat to get the meat home.'
Claux said people often ask him what human flesh tastes like. He insisted the taste was not the main point and compared it to horse meat, which he had eaten at the time.
He explained: 'People always ask me about the taste. And it wasn't about the taste. I can say that it tastes like horse meat because at the time I was eating horse tartare.
'But for me, it was more about the rush, the sensation. Something like I had never experienced before. It was keeping me constantly on a high, aroused.'
He was caught after an attempt to cash a forged cheque belonging to his victim, a crime that led to his arrest.
Claux was convicted and given a 12-year sentence in 1997. Records show he served seven years and four months before his release.
During a search of his apartment, cops found several sickening items of human remains, including bags of blood, an altar made of skulls, and human foetuses.
According to The Sun, he broke into crypts and coffins just to steal souvenirs of human remains. After his release from prison, he says he went on to work for morgues for 13 years.
He claims he was able to do this by forging documents and was only caught many years after each employment.
He told the publication: 'I'm glad the police caught me because I was already planning my next murder, just days after the killing, because the first didn't go the way I planned.
'I was close to killing my morgue co-workers. I wanted to kill them one by one because I couldn't stand them. I had a really short fuse back then.
'I was escalating so fast, had a total disregard for human life, and absolutely no limits. One investigator said I had the same evil look in my eyes as a French serial killer, Thierry Paulin.'
Records show that he has written books such as The Gospel of Blood and The Cannibal Cookbook: Human Meat Recipes from Around the World.
On Goodreads, the latter is chillingly described as: 'This cookbook will help you choose the right spices for your own cannibal feast.
'Precious advice is given on how to get that very special meat, and how to cut it like a pro.'
He has said he uses his writing as a method to manage his urges and cravings. He also lists collecting occult items as one of his passions.
Claux's account of his obsession was made during an interview on the Anything Goes with James English podcast.
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