Synopses & Reviews
A crew must try to survive on an ancient, abandoned planet in the latest space horror novel from S.A. Barnes, acclaimed author of Dead Silence.
Space exploration can be lonely and isolating.
Psychologist Dr. Ophelia Bray has dedicated her life to the study and prevention of ERS — a space-based condition most famous for a case that resulted in the brutal murders of twenty-nine people. When she's assigned to a small exploration crew, she's eager to make a difference. But as they begin to establish residency on an abandoned planet, it becomes clear that crew is hiding something.
While Ophelia focuses on her new role, her crewmates are far more interested in investigating the eerie, ancient planet and unraveling the mystery behind the previous colonizer's hasty departure than opening up to her.
That is, until their pilot is discovered gruesomely murdered. Is this Ophelia's worst nightmare starting — a wave of violence and mental deterioration from ERS? Or is it something more sinister?
Terrified that history will repeat itself, Ophelia and the crew must work together to figure out what's happening. But trust is hard to come by... and the crew isn't the only one keeping secrets.
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“Barnes (Dead Silence) is quickly cementing herself as the go-to author in space horror. This will appeal to fans of sci-fi/horror hybrids that are heavy on the planetary-exploration details.” Library Journal
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"Perfectly unsettling. Ghost Station scratches the itch for space horror just right — and doesn't shrink from the grisly consequences of exploring the unknown." Chloe Gong, New York Times bestselling author of These Violent Delights
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"Ghost Station is everything I could want in a horror story and more. Barnes became one of my favorite authors with Dead Silence and this is a stunning follow-up. Highly recommended." Darcy Coates, USA Today bestselling author of Dead of Winter
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"A skin-crawling, delicious tale of exploration, exploitation, and electrifying horror. I loved (and screeched through) every moment of it." Yume Kitasei, author of The Deep Sky
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"A taut, twisting thriller that subverts every trope and expectation in all the best — and most terrifying — ways imaginable." Philip Fracassi, author of Boys in the Valley
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"A hostile planet, mysterious alien ruins, and a distrustful crew of traumatized people — it's a potent combination that makes for a tense, gripping, and delightfully creepy thriller." Kali Wallace, author of Dead Space
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"Barnes leads us step by step up a mounting staircase of dread, through horrors both real and suggestive." David Wellington, author of Paradise-1
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"Fans of exploration horror will go wild for this creepy, pacey, and captivating novel.....Ghost Station will infect you." Ally Wilkes, author of All the White Spaces
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"The best space horror since Alien." Gretchen McNeil, author of Ten and #murdertrending
About the Author
S.A. Barnes, author of Dead Silence, works in a high school library by day, recommending reads, talking with students, and removing the occasional forgotten cheese-stick-as-bookmark. Barnes has published numerous novels across different genres under the pen name Stacey Kade. She lives in Illinois with more dogs and books than is advisable and a very patient husband