Note: If you’re a fan of the Alien franchise–even the video game Alien: Isolation (2014), the video game Prey (2017), the films Event Horizon (1997), Infini (2015), Pandorum (2009), The Void (2016), Harbinger Down (2015), The Last Days on Mars (2013) and whatnot. Either way, you’re sure to be spooked at some point when reading them.

And some of them take place somewhere on Earth instead of space. There’s even a few that don’t have a lot of focus on the horror element, but leans heavily towards sci-fi or another genre like thriller or mystery.

I’ve also included a few books that have a similar isolation and creepy atmosphere to them that ‘space horror’ has. If not, the humans might’ve unknowingly, maybe even purposely disturbed something that they shouldn’t have. Nearly all of them is set in deep space on a spaceship, research station, moon, and so on with an unknown entity–be it a deadly extraterrestrial, alien virus and whatnot that the protagonist must face.

Most of the books are considered space horror, a subgenres of science fiction. If you enjoyed the survival horror game franchise Dead Space, you might enjoy some of these book recommendations.

3rd dead space book?