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Jess Hagemann

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Jess Hagemann’s recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in Beneath the Bluebonnets: Tales of Terror from Texas Women, Three Seasons of Winter, and Last Girls Club, among others. Her debut novel Headcheese (2018) won an IPPY Award in Horror. Paste Magazine named her sophomore novel Mother-Eating, which marries Marie Antoinette and cults, one of the “Most-Anticipated Horror Books of 2025.” Jess received her MFA from the Jack Kerouac School, and has been awarded a teaching fellowship at McNeese State University as well as a writing residency at Dear Butte. She lives in Austin.

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	Into the Forest: Tales of the Baba Yaga by Lindy Ryan (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Christina Henry (Goodreads Author) (Foreword), Gwendolyn Kiste (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.75 avg rating — 736 ratings — published 2022 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Headcheese 3.79 avg rating — 113 ratings — published 2018 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ghoulish Tales Issue #2 by Various, Max Booth III (Goodreads Author) (editor), Lori Michelle (Goodreads Author) (editor) 4.29 avg rating — 34 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Castle of Horror Anthology Volume 6: Femme Fatales by P.J. Hoover (Goodreads Author), M.J. Addy, Jessica Lee Anderson 4.42 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2021 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mother-Eating 4.32 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2025 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Resurrection 4.64 avg rating — 11 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Whispers: Healing and Triumph after Sexual Assault 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2017 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Precipice: Writing at the Edge by Jess Hagemann (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Jade Lascelles (Editor), Kristen Wedlock (Editor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2018	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Of Tiny Threads: Stories about American Marriage (Untellable Tales Book 3) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2018 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	POSTMARKS ON OUR FOREHEADS: Hospice Care Patients, Memory Care Patients, and the People Who Love Them it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2016 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Jess Hagemann rated a book it was amazing The Small Hours by Bob Pastorella (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
A clever and fun vampire story with heart! When their friend goes missing, Jay and company suspect the mobster neighbor. What they don’t know is Mr. Fields is less mobster and more monster… keeper. There’s a creature (or four) in his shed who’s hungr ...more
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The first 30% was a five-star read for me; the last 70% was 3 star. As compelled as I was by the book’s opening chapters, I felt the non-chronological structure and almost journal-like nature of later entries diluted the power of Page’s story.
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I want to live inside this book, for its long, rambling, drunk, high, perfect exploration of what it means to be an artist of any kind, and a writer in particular. Josh’s horror has always thrilled me, but this unvarnished nonfiction take on creativi ...more
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A college friend’s favorite phrase was: “parsed to a spare aesthetic.” He was always looking for good storytelling and writing that matched the description “parsed to a spare aesthetic.” THE ONLY SAFE PLACE LEFT IS THE DARK would have fit the brief. ...more
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This book is the closest thing to reading Ray Bradbury that isn’t Ray Bradbury. It’s full of the nostalgia of long childhood summers with your grandparents, and the adult grief that comes with looking back and realizing the time ahead of you is now s ...more
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Jess Hagemann rated a book it was amazing All the Way to the River: Love, Loss, and Liberation by Elizabeth Gilbert (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Look, this book is blunt and brave. Gilbert lays everything bare for your judgment. Leaving her husband because she’d fallen in love with someone else—a woman named Rayya. Buying cocaine and other illegal drugs for her new lover because Rayya was an ...more
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This book is like a lost chapter of the John Wick franchise. Imagine you become pope by killing the last pope. And now everyone else who wants to be pope is after you! Tons of fun and with a lot of heart to temper all the splatter.
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