Sleep Alone

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Finalist for both the Shirley Jackson Award and the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Long FictionIncludes a new bonus short story, "With Animals"!"Instantly intoxicati ng. Sleep Alone thrives in a lustful, hungry ballad... A classic trinity of sex, blood, and rock and roll." —Hailey Piper, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Queen of TeethFor the past six years, Ronnie has worked selling merch for a perpetually touring band. Late nights, sweaty clubs, dingy motel rooms, endless roads—as rough as it's been, there is no other way of life for this band of hungry succubi leaving bodies in their wake.Until she meets the enigmatic Helene.Helene is just as restless, just as lonely, and just as full of secrets. With Helene in tow, Ronnie and the band make their way across the Pacific Northwest, trying to outrun not only their mistakes, but the mysterious disease stalking the band, a disease that devours succubi from the inside out.The hunger is as endless as the road, but maybe Ronnie doesn't always want to sleep alone. Show more