Mother Knows Best: Tales of Homemade Horror

A 2024 Bram Stoker Awards® Nominee for Superior Achievement in Anthology.

Blood binds. Mothers make. Children remember.

The connection between daughter and mother has long been tangled in blood. Creator and caretaker, protector and predator, the mother is expected to give everything of herself—her body, her identity, her hunger, her rage. But motherhood has always had teeth. From the womb to the grave, mothers shape us, scar us, shelter us, and sometimes swallow us whole. We fear becoming our...