Flesh 1st WORLD HARDCOVER (UK) PUBLISHER: WH Allen 1987 COVER PRICE: £11.95 ISBN 0-491-03487-3

Flesh 1st US Paperback PUBLISHER: Tor 1988 COVER PRICE: $3.95 ISBN 0-812-52110-2

Flesh 1st UK Paperback PUBLISHER: Headline 1990 COVER PRICE: £6.99 ISBN 0-7472-3532-5

No one had ever seen anything like it before: a slimy, mobile tube of glistening yellow flesh, with dull, staring eyes and an obscene, probing mouth. But the real horror was not what it looked like, or even what it did to you when it burrowed greedily into your flesh, but what it made you do to others.

As soon as it got into Ron Smeltzer he turned from a docile, loving husband into a ravening, murderous beast - and within minutes he’d blown his wife’s head off with a shotgun and feasted on her bloody corpse.

But the nightmare stared when it got into Roland, the harmless college weirdo. Roland’s mind, already warped and twisted by a steady diet of pornography and explicit horror movies, was like a deadly weapon just waiting to be used, the perfect home for the parasite-killer.

Soon no one in town was safe - especially if they were young, pretty and female...