EXCLUSIVE COVER REVEAL: Jess Hagemann’s “MOTHER-EATING” Releases October 28th

Thursday, July 3, 2025 | Books, Exclusives

By KEVIN HOOVER

Texas-based publisher Ghoulish Books, whose catalog of horror titles has been stoking the fever dream fires of readers whose literary tastes skew more transgressive than trendy, announces their latest release with a cover reveal exclusive to RUE MORGUE.

MOTHER-EATING, author Jess Hagemann’s follow-up to 2018’s amputation opus Headcheese (Encyclopocalypse Publications) re-envisions 18th-century monarch Marie Antoinette and her royal court as a sex cult in modern-day Austin, Texas. Does the guillotine lie in wait? Readers can find out when the book releases on October 28th.

Cover illustration by James Hutton. Cover text design by Zach Chapman.

Paperback preorders are now open, and any completed before October 10th will be signed and personalized by Hagemann.

MOTHER-EATING author Jess Hagemann.

Visit Ghoulish Books for more information and view their entire catalog at Bookshop.org.

Kevin Hoover

Ever since watching CREEPSHOW as a child, Kevin Hoover has spent a lifetime addicted to horror (and terrified of cockroaches). He wholeheartedly believes in the concept of reanimating the dead if only we’d give it the old college try, and thinks FRIDAY THE 13th PART V is the best in the franchise. Aside from writing “Cryptid Cinema Chronicles” for Rue Morgue, he’s been a working copywriter for over a decade and you’ve probably bought something with his words on it. He also believes even the worst movie can be improved with buckets of gore.