Resa Habsburg, desperate for a TV contract, sells Mary Toni to a strange, pseudo-religious, torture-happy sex cult to fulfill the deal.
The transaction sets the stage for this blood-curdling modern retelling of Marie Antoinette’s reign as queen of France, all set in Austin, Texas.
Why we’re excited about this book:
Jess Hagemann has been building a strong following over the past couple of years as one of the breakout writers working in horror fiction today. The author of the IPPY award winning novel Headcheese, and the chapbook Resurrection, Hagemann’s short fiction has appeared in such publications as Ghoulish Tales, The Oklahoma Review, Pank Magazine, and Castle of Horror Anthology Volume 6: Femme Fatales, among others. With her latest, Hagemann gives us a gruesome modern spin on the legendary Marie Antoinette with one of the most anticipated books of the year. Eric LaRocca (We Are Always Tender With Our Dead) says: “Mother-Eating gleefully penetrates and butchers all you thought was possible in fiction. It is a literary impalement. Perverted, shocking, and unprecedented. Jess Hagemann is one of the most singular and distinct voices I’ve encountered since first reading authors like William S. Burroughs and Georges Bataille. There is no literary equivalent to this raw, uncompromising masterpiece. It truly exists in its own superior class.” Chris Panatier (The Redemption of Morgan Bright) says: “With Mother-Eating, Jess Hagemann has made herself a blade, and you, reader, are meat. Drop everything, and deliver yourself into these pages.”, and Daniel Kraus (Whalefall, Angel Down) says: “Hagemann might be the best horror writer in America.”