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Spread Me is a darkly seductive tale of survival from Sarah Gailey, author of Just Like Home. A routine probe at a research station turns deadly when the team discovers a strange specimen in search of a warm place to stay.
Kinsey has the perfect job as the team lead in a remote research outpost. She loves the isolation and the way the desert keeps temptations from the civilian world far out of reach.
When her crew discovers a mysterious specimen buried deep in the sand, Kinsey breaks quarantine and brings it inside. But the longer it's there, the more her carefully controlled life begins to unravel. Temptation has found her after all, and it can't be ignored any longer.
One by one, Kinsey's team realizes the thing they're studying is in search of a new host—and one of them is the perfect candidate....
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Genre: Horror
Spread Me is a darkly seductive tale of survival from Sarah Gailey, author of Just Like Home. A routine probe at a research station turns deadly when the team discovers a strange specimen in search of a warm place to stay.
Kinsey has the perfect job as the team lead in a remote research outpost. She loves the isolation and the way the desert keeps temptations from the civilian world far out of reach.
When her crew discovers a mysterious specimen buried deep in the sand, Kinsey breaks quarantine and brings it inside. But the longer it's there, the more her carefully controlled life begins to unravel. Temptation has found her after all, and it can't be ignored any longer.
One by one, Kinsey's team realizes the thing they're studying is in search of a new host—and one of them is the perfect candidate....
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Genre: Horror
Praise for this book
"In the desert, no one can hear you moan. Spread Me glistens like John Carpenter's sexy Thing, full of lusty lichen and creamed genes. Never has the end of the world been this sexy." - Clay McLeod Chapman
"For once the term 'Cronenbergian' is all too accurate, with its intimations of the horny, the monstrous, and the transgressive. Gailey comes in white-hot from the very first page and goes farther, faster, and deeper than you could ever imagine. Read it all in one night if you must, but you won't get much sleep once you're done." - David Demchuk
"John Carpenter's The Thing is back and it's sandier, and hornier, and wants to be inside of YOU! Made me blush so hard I cried." - Grady Hendrix
"Spread Me by Sarah Gailey is a poignant study of the complicated relationship between desire and shame, cleverly disguised as a very scary horror novella. A timely reminder that although we humans might have learned to fear nature, it remains always beautiful, and life will find a way." - Hildur Knútsdóttir
"Hot, messed-up horror that puts you in a maniacal 'sickos meme' state. The vivacious pace keeps the pages flying, while the core of Spread Me is a blooming flower, revealing its beauty petal by petal. Another reason Gailey is one of my favorite authors." - Hailey Piper
"A pure giddy delight of an erotic horror story. It will leave you scandalized, terrified, and delighted." - Katee Robert
"Spread Me has it all. It's tense, tight, squicky, slippery, lusty, claustrophobic. Somehow it is both terrifying and tantalizing. This story, like what's in it, eagerly crawls inside you and replaces you with itself. Perhaps the true gift here, though, is Gailey's character work--these fully-realized individuals do not feel contained to the page, and truly feel alive." - Chuck Wendig
"For once the term 'Cronenbergian' is all too accurate, with its intimations of the horny, the monstrous, and the transgressive. Gailey comes in white-hot from the very first page and goes farther, faster, and deeper than you could ever imagine. Read it all in one night if you must, but you won't get much sleep once you're done." - David Demchuk
"John Carpenter's The Thing is back and it's sandier, and hornier, and wants to be inside of YOU! Made me blush so hard I cried." - Grady Hendrix
"Spread Me by Sarah Gailey is a poignant study of the complicated relationship between desire and shame, cleverly disguised as a very scary horror novella. A timely reminder that although we humans might have learned to fear nature, it remains always beautiful, and life will find a way." - Hildur Knútsdóttir
"Hot, messed-up horror that puts you in a maniacal 'sickos meme' state. The vivacious pace keeps the pages flying, while the core of Spread Me is a blooming flower, revealing its beauty petal by petal. Another reason Gailey is one of my favorite authors." - Hailey Piper
"A pure giddy delight of an erotic horror story. It will leave you scandalized, terrified, and delighted." - Katee Robert
"Spread Me has it all. It's tense, tight, squicky, slippery, lusty, claustrophobic. Somehow it is both terrifying and tantalizing. This story, like what's in it, eagerly crawls inside you and replaces you with itself. Perhaps the true gift here, though, is Gailey's character work--these fully-realized individuals do not feel contained to the page, and truly feel alive." - Chuck Wendig
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