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Spread Me

The Thing Reimagined - With a Disturbing Erotic Twist Author: Sarah Gailey Have you ever watched John Carpenter’s The Thing and wondered: what would this story be like if the alien was really, really horny? Well . . . apparently Sarah Gailey did . . . and Spread Me (double entendre evident) transforms the dark story of a people-replicating being into an erotic body-horror nightmare. Spread Me centers around Kinsey, who leads a remote research outpost in the desert where her team researches the cryptobiotic soil crust before it’s all destroyed by Big Evil Company. This is a very isolated post [...]

Frances Carden2026-04-06T19:33:47-07:00April 6th, 2026|Tags: book review, horror, read, reading|

Annihilation

It's the End of the World as The Alien Fungus Monsters Know It - And Nobody Feels Fine Author: Iain Rob Wright It’s the end now, for better or worse. Aaron and his intrepid cadre of friends have lost everything, recuperating with found family while also fighting depression. Is the world worth saving? After having experienced so much devastation, so much loss, do they really want to survive? Should humanity survive, when it has proven to be just as much of a monster as the Takers who have landed? Annihilation is darker in tone than some of its predecessors, and at [...]

Frances Carden2026-04-05T11:03:56-07:00April 5th, 2026|Tags: alien invasion, book review, horror, Iain Rob Wright, read, reading, The Spread|

Rest Stop

"We’re all just biding our time before we break, aren’t we? This is just the rest stop." Author: Nat Cassidy Abe keeps making excuses to avoid being at his grandmother’s death bed. After all, his grandmother is a terrifying, cruel woman who spent her days populating his childhood with nightmare stories. She always hated him. She always wanted to steal his childhood and replace it with the darker stuff of life. No, Abe doesn’t want to go. So, he is somewhat surprised to find himself driving down a lonely highway, late at night, finally guilted into the visit, hoping that he [...]

Frances Carden2026-03-28T16:09:37-07:00March 28th, 2026|Tags: book review, horror, Nat Cassidy, novella, read, reading|