Mother Boneyard Tales: Three Feasts: A Literary Horror Collection of Cannibalism, Body Horror, and Folk Terror, (Paperback)

She is already waiting at your table. Darling. Hush. Eat.

You went looking for a book about a thing that eats people. Mother knows. She has been watching you get hungry.

MOTHER BONEYARD TALES: THREE FEASTS is a literary horror triptych about the three ways we agree to be consumed. Three towns. Three hungers. One Mother who never has to force the door.

FEAST ONE: SOW

Disgraced veterinarian Dana Cole takes a last chance job on a hog farm that is too clean to be real. No smell. No feed bins. No birds. Just 2,000 silent, spotless pigs that watch her like sunflowers, and pork so good it feels primal. To stay, she will have to learn where the feed really comes from.

FEAST TWO: SAINT WORM

Nurse Maya Reyes brings her brother with cystic fibrosis to faith healer John Mercy. The healing is real. So is what is left inside afterward. A parasite that is load bearing. A thought that spreads like hunger. A gathering of 2,000 people lying down willingly in a fertilized field.

FEAST THREE: GOD'S PANTRY

Line cook and broke mother Carla Mabry finds God's Pantry in a church basement. The stew never runs low. The cans just say GOD PROVIDES. The ledger is minuted, the hooks are tagged, the rule is oldest to the front. When the pot runs low, someone has to volunteer to keep feeding the town.

Told with veterinary, medical, and culinary precision, this is body horror with a beating heart. For readers who like their terror intelligent, maternal, and utterly unwilling to let you look away.

Perfect for fans of Tender Is the Flesh, Mexican Gothic, T. Kingfisher, and Stephen Graham Jones.

Contains graphic body horror, cannibalism, pregnancy horror, and animal death. Not for the faint of appetite.

Scroll up and one click to take your seat. Mother saved you a place.