Tantrum

Thea’s third pregnancy was her easiest. She wasn’t consumed with anxiety about the baby. She wasn’t convinced it was going to be born green, or have a third eye, or have tentacles sprouting from its torso. Thea was fine. Her baby would be fine.But when the nurses handed Lucia to her, Thea just knew. Her baby girl was a monster. Not only was Lucia born with a full set of teeth and a devilish glint in her eye, but she’s always hungry. Indiscriminately so. One day Lucia pointed at her baby brother, looked Thea dead in the eye and said, “I eat.”Thea doesn’t know whether to be terrified or proud of her rapacious baby girl. And as Lucia starts growing faster and talking more, dark memories bubble to the surface--flashes from Thea’s childhood that won’t release their hooks from her heart. Lucia wants to eat the world. Thea might just let her.

"Tantrum takes a parent's worries to their logical extreme, in this darkly funny take on a mother's fear of her own harmful legacy . . . Tantrum serves as a fascinating metaphor for the feral nature of girlhood and how society conspires to restrict women, physically and mentally." --CrimeReads
"Who says babies can't be scary? In Tantrum, Rachel Eve Moulton weaves together a horror story that will undoubtedly speak to the fears of anyone who has ever thought long and hard about motherhood." --Harper's Bazaar
"Dazzingly dark and strange and furious . . . a poignant, squirm-inducing examination of how early traumas can rebirth themselves later in life, just when we least expect them. Rachel Eve Moulton is always a must-read!" --Nat Cassidy, author of When the Wolf Comes Home
"Rachel Eve Moulton is a demonic doula, a midwife for monsters, and what she has delivered into this world is truly savage. Tantrum wails with vibrant life, an ouroboros of generational rage encased in scales and fangs. Yet another testament to Moulton's ascent as one of horror's most hauntingly provocative authors." --Clay McLeod Chapman, author of Wake Up and Open Your Eyes