S.A. Barnes
In the quiet corridors of a high school library in Illinois, where forgotten bookmarks include everything from notes to cheese sticks, S.A. Barnes plots tales of cosmic terror and claustrophobic dread. Best known for her chilling breakout novel Dead Silence, Barnes has carved a niche in the growing subgenre of sci-fi horror—where the silence of space isn't peaceful, it's menacing. Before ghosts drifted through derelict starliners in her fiction, she spent years writing under her real name, Stacey Kade, crafting young adult stories filled with heart and humor. But the darker corners of her imagination—fed by early encounters with V.C. Andrews…