Titanic meets The Shining in S.A. Barnes’ Dead Silence, a SF horror novel in which a woman and her crew board a decades-lost luxury cruiser and find the wreckage of a nightmare that hasn't yet ended.
A GHOST SHIP. A SALVAGE CREW. UNSPEAKABLE HORRORS.
Claire Kovalik is days away from being unemployed—made obsolete—when her beacon repair crew picks up a strange distress signal. With nothing to lose and no desire to return to Earth, Claire and her team decide to investigate.
What they find at the other end of the signal is a shock: the Aurora, a famous luxury space-liner that vanished on its maiden tour of the solar system more than twenty years ago. A salvage claim like this could set Claire and her crew up for life. But a quick trip through the Aurora reveals something isn’t right.
Whispers in the dark. Flickers of movement. Words scrawled in blood. Claire must fight to hold onto her sanity and find out what really happened on the Aurora, before she and her crew meet the same ghastly fate.
Titanic meets The Shining in S.A. Barnes’ Dead Silence, a SF horror novel in which a woman and her crew board a decades-lost luxury cruiser and find the wreckage of a nightmare that hasn't yet ended.
A GHOST SHIP. A SALVAGE CREW. UNSPEAKABLE HORRORS.
Claire Kovalik is days away from being unemployed—made obsolete—when her beacon repair crew picks up a strange distress signal. With nothing to lose and no desire to return to Earth, Claire and her team decide to investigate.
What they find at the other end of the signal is a shock: the Aurora, a famous luxury space-liner that vanished on its maiden tour of the solar system more than twenty years ago. A salvage claim like this could set Claire and her crew up for life. But a quick trip through the Aurora reveals something isn’t right.
Whispers in the dark. Flickers of movement. Words scrawled in blood. Claire must fight to hold onto her sanity and find out what really happened on the Aurora, before she and her crew meet the same ghastly fate.
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Combining claustrophobic science fiction settings with psychological horror, space horror stories set aboard isolated stations and derelict vessels have established a distinct presence in modern speculative fiction. Author S.A. Barnes achieved wide recognition in this subgenre with the 2022 publication of Dead Silence, a Goodreads Choice finalist that examines corporate corruption and hallucinogenic madness aboard a doomed luxury cruiser lost in deep space.
Born Stacey Ann Barnes in 1975 in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, she worked as a copywriter before pursuing a career in school librarianship. By day, she works in a high school library recommending reads, talking with students, and removing the occasional forgotten cheese stick used as a bookmark. Prior to adopting the S.A. Barnes pseudonym, she published numerous novels across young adult, romance, and mystery genres under the pen name Stacey Kade, authoring The Ghost and the Goth series and the Project Paper Doll trilogy. Earlier in her career, writing as Stacey Klemstein, she published The Silver Spoon in 2004 and its 2008 sequel Eye of the Beholder. Barnes resides in Illinois with a very patient spouse and more dogs and books than is advisable.
Barnes is recognized for crafting tight, atmospheric narratives that place isolated characters in high-stakes environments. Her science fiction horror works frequently probe corporate greed, psychological trauma, and survival in deep space, blending traditional horror tropes with realistic futuristic settings. Her broader bibliography ranges from young adult paranormal mysteries to dark academia romantasy, maintaining a strong focus on character interiority and suspense across different genre frameworks.
2 books in catalog
Combining claustrophobic science fiction settings with psychological horror, space horror stories set aboard isolated stations and derelict vessels have established a distinct presence in modern speculative fiction. Author S.A. Barnes achieved wide recognition in this subgenre with the 2022 publication of Dead Silence, a Goodreads Choice finalist that examines corporate corruption and hallucinogenic madness aboard a doomed luxury cruiser lost in deep space.
Born Stacey Ann Barnes in 1975 in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, she worked as a copywriter before pursuing a career in school librarianship. By day, she works in a high school library recommending reads, talking with students, and removing the occasional forgotten cheese stick used as a bookmark. Prior to adopting the S.A. Barnes pseudonym, she published numerous novels across young adult, romance, and mystery genres under the pen name Stacey Kade, authoring The Ghost and the Goth series and the Project Paper Doll trilogy. Earlier in her career, writing as Stacey Klemstein, she published The Silver Spoon in 2004 and its 2008 sequel Eye of the Beholder. Barnes resides in Illinois with a very patient spouse and more dogs and books than is advisable.
Barnes is recognized for crafting tight, atmospheric narratives that place isolated characters in high-stakes environments. Her science fiction horror works frequently probe corporate greed, psychological trauma, and survival in deep space, blending traditional horror tropes with realistic futuristic settings. Her broader bibliography ranges from young adult paranormal mysteries to dark academia romantasy, maintaining a strong focus on character interiority and suspense across different genre frameworks.
