I believe that’s called a single entendre.
Category - Covers
The Pharaoh Contract (Emancipator Book 1)
Just for comparison, here’s the original mass-market paperback:
Crossing the Carnivorous Forest (Gods of the New Wilderness Book 2)
There may have been a good idea behind this, but the execution doomed it.
High Up, Before Our Throats Were Slit
I can’t read the title, but I also don’t understand the artwork. Must be poetry.
Out of Darkness (Seasonal Anthology Book 1)
It’s apparently an anthology “where ghosts reside, the grim reaper takes form, children are taunted by witches, something dangerous lurks in a pit and more,” but it looks more like an afternoon stroll.
