Horror Planet

Man had landed on the planet before: A fruitless, expensive fiasco of an expedition. Then, fifty years later a smaller but disasterous landing had left two men horribly and inexplicably dead. Now a third attempt has so far found nothing but a silent, lifeless world. Until they broke open the underground chamber and discovered in the most vile way imaginable that the planet was not quite dead. A sleeping life-form had been waiting for millennia, needing only a chance to breed before escaping to spread like a foul, devouring disease into the life blood of the universe. But to breed, it needs the bodies of those who disturbed it...