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Spread Me

By: Sarah Gailey
Narrated by: Xe Sands
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Spread Me is a darkly seductive tale of survival from Sarah Gailey, bestselling 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.

"This erotic female-centered story of body horror grabs listeners into its feverish grip and doesn't let go. [Narrator Xe] Sands's subtle inflections for each member of the team give believable familiarity to the diverse cohort of researchers..." — AudioFile

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.

A Macmillan Audio production from Tor Nightfire

Adventure Horror Science Fiction Supernatural Thriller & Suspense Exciting

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Critic reviews

“A pure giddy delight of an erotic horror story. It will leave you scandalized, terrified, and delighted.”
—Katee Robert, New York Times bestselling author

"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, New York Times bestselling author of Witchcraft for Wayward Girls

“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, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of A Game in Yellow

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, author of The Night Guest

"Both a wonderful meditation on the faces of desire and the smuttiest version of John Carpenter's The Thing ever (absurdly complimentary)."
Cassandra Khaw, USA Today bestselling author of Nothing But Blackened Teeth

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, New York Times bestselling author of Wanderers

"In the desert, no one can hear you moan. Spread Me glistens like John Carpenter's sexy The Thing, full of lusty lichen and creamed genes. Never has the end of the world been this sexy."
—Clay McLeod Chapman, author of Wake Up and Open Your Eyes

"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 Demchuck, co-author of The Butcher's Daughter

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I was quite excited to listen to this, as a fan of the authors previous book ‘Just Like Home’, but after unfortunately this one didn’t quite land the way I wanted. It’s a very lean story, which could have worked but there’s a few too many characters to make the brisk pace work, because we learn little to nothing about most of them, which is a shame because what we do get, is interesting, just limited. The set up is familiar, The Thing but in the desert. This is no secret and I did appreciate that there was no real hiding that inspiration. The scenes of violence, gore, body horror and descriptive eroticism are brilliantly done, which really elevated the experience and they’re frequent enough that it kept me engaged. The unique twist on the eroticism and horror is certainly interesting, and it does make for some uncomfortable moments that are engaging. A fab performance from our narrator again, I find her to be incredibly engaging and easy to listen to. I will certainly continue to listen and collect Sarah Gailey books because I think she has some interesting ideas and cool premises, even if I found this to not fully live up to my expectations.

A brilliant performance of a familiar set up, unique twist on that premise but thin chatacters

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Barely Sci-Fi. Don't even bother with this one. I got it for free and I still wan a refund.

Written by a woman and it shows.

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Whatever you expect, it’s not this. Sarah Gailey strikes again, and it’s skin-crawling horror and utterly fascinating. Xe Sands is the perfect narrator

Horrifying, riveting, incredible

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