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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 is shocking: the Aurora, a famous…

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The author presents a horror story and eventually chip away mysteries with rational thought.

Here we have a haunted ship -- in space!

Claire is days away from losing her job on a salvage ship when she receives a distress call from long-missing space-liner, The Aurora – likened to the Titanic in space. Having nothing to lose, she convinces the crew to investigate, reasoning that they will make a fortune from the wreckage. Once they board the ship, things take a swiftly sinister turn.

This book is so much fun and incredibly cinematic. Space horror deserves to be a much more popular genre. If you like the movie Event Horizon, you will love this…

From Amy's list on spooky ships.

I never knew I wanted a horror story set aboard an abandoned Titanic in space until I read Dead Silence.

This book involves an ill-fated recovery mission to the wreckage of a long-dead luxury cruise spaceship. What was supposed to be a major payday for the retrieval crew becomes a deadly need for escape from the chilling wreckage.

Barnes juxtaposes the main character’s horrifying experience onboard with her harrowed report to her employer afterward to raise the sense of unease and dread. Read this if you want to hesitate before looking under the bed at night for a week.

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