The Mystery of the Mystery Flesh Pit (2022)

From publisher blurb:

A MONSTER OF THE WEEK MYSTERY!

The organism known to scientists as the Permian Basin Superorganism was accidentally discovered in 1973 by employees of Anodyne Deep Earth Mining, though the indigenous Caddo people had long told tales of a great dragon that slept, dreaming, beneath the earth . . .

The land around the orifice leading into that unfathomably massive creature was declared a national park in 1980. The Mystery Flesh Pit brought hundreds of thousands of tourists and millions of black-budget biotech research dollars to nearby Gumption, Texas. Notwithstanding the earthquakes, the visions of pullulating flesh that plagued the sleep of children, and the occasional extraordinary rendition of "humanoid compound surface fauna," life in Gumption was happy.

COME FOR THE BROKEN PHILOSOPHY, STAY FOR THE AMNIOTIC LATTES!

However, on July 5, 2007, disaster struck. Torrential rain, a cascading series of poor management decisions, and an ill-timed fireworks display caused a "premature geobiological consumption event," resulting in hundreds of fatalities and thousands of physical and psychological injuries. The park was closed. Anodyne was found grossly negligent, forced into bankruptcy, and reorganized into the Permian Basin Recovery and Superorganism Containment Corporation, tasked with overseeing damage payouts and administering the sedatives necessary to prevent the PBS from reawakening.

But where there is profit, there is a way. After years of intensive lobbying by the Gumption Chamber of Commerce and a series of classified U.S. Senate briefings by the PBRSCC's management, the park has reopened. But neither Gumption nor the park are the same as they used to be. Something weirder than the usual weirdness is in the air: Operation Clown Car, a mass-scale mind-control experiment exploiting the eldritch powers of the PBS. Claire Luna, CEO of the PBRSCC, is in charge of that operation; however, long-term exposure to psychogeographical radiation and far too many venti-size amniotic lattes has transformed her into a minion of the PBS—and the tens of thousands of visitors visiting Mystery Flesh Pitapalooza! into the main dish of a cataclysmic feast!

VERDANT FORESTS, MAJESTIC SCENERY, AND COSMIC TERROR!