November Murder by the Book Club: Ghost Station by S.A. Barnes

Old Town Books' Murder by the Book Club is free and open to the public. While buying the book at OTB is not required to attend, we would greatly appreciate it to help keep our free literary programming sustainable! Buy your copy of Ghost Station in store or online and note "book club" to get 10% off. By attending any and all Old Town Books events you are agreeing to our code of conduct. Old Town Books is committed to creating accessible events and spaces for the widest possible audience. Please reach out to us at events@oldtownbooks.com for reasonable accessibility accommodations. A bout the book: “Relentlessly creepy and fantastically atmospheric...Ghost Station is space horror at its best.”—The New York TimesA 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.An abandoned plant. A hidden past. A deadly danger.Psychologist Dr. Ophelia Bray has dedicated her life to the study and prevention of Eckhart-Reiser syndrome (ERS)—the most famous case of which resulted in the brutal murders of twenty-nine people. It's personal to her, and when she's assigned to a small exploration crew who recently suffered the tragic death of a colleague, she wants to help. But as they begin to establish residency on an abandoned planet, it becomes clear that the crew is hiding something.Ophelia's crewmates are far more interested in investigating the eerie, ancient planet and unraveling the mystery behind the previous colonizers' 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 even 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.