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Parasite

Darcy Coates

It's not just hunting you. It's becoming you.


From USA Today bestselling author Darcy Coates comes Parasite, a pulse-pounding sci-fi horror novel that blurs the line between survival thriller and psychological nightmare.


Across the outer moons and space outposts of a fractured human galaxy, something unspeakable spreads. A parasite--alien, untraceable, and endlessly patient--moves from host to host, mimicking its victims with chilling accuracy. It copies their voices. Their memories. Their faces. And by the time you notice something's wrong...it's already too late.


Told through multiple interlinked storylines, Parasite follows a handful of survivors--scientists, technicians, soldiers--as they confront a threat they cannot understand, and in many cases, cannot see. What does it mean to be human? And how do you fight something that knows you better than you know yourself?


For fans of The Thing, Alien, and Into the Drowning Deep, this is an immersive and relentless story of paranoia, extinction, and the horror of not knowing who--or what--is standing beside you.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press
  • Publish Date: Aug 4th, 2020
  • Pages: 432
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.00in - 5.40in - 1.40in - 0.90lb
  • EAN: 9781728221809
  • Categories: Horror - GeneralScience Fiction - Alien ContactScience Fiction - Action & Adventure

About the Author

Coates, Darcy: -

Darcy Coates is the USA Today bestselling author of Hunted, The Haunting of Ashburn House, Craven Manor, and more than a dozen horror and suspense titles. She lives on the Central Coast of Australia with her family, cats, and a garden full of herbs and vegetables. Darcy loves forests, especially old-growth forests where the trees dwarf anyone who steps between them. Wherever she lives, she tries to have a mountain range close by.

Praise for this book

"Ridley Scott's chestbursters are pop culture legend, and any mention of unwanted alien stowaways brings to mind John Hurt sprawled out on a table in Alien, blood spewing from his chest. But Darcy Coates's parasites are interested in more than just gestating in their hosts before chewing their way out through the sternum." -- Book Riot