The Ship of Ghosts

A dead prison ship has been waiting in the Perseus Expanse for a hundred years.
When Commander Lexi Jones and the crew of the Prelude find the derelict transport Revenant, they expect wreckage. Instead, they find nine cryo chambers, nine hand-scratched names, and nine prisoners who awaken without pulse, breath, or measurable brain activity.
The deeper Lexi investigates, the clearer the truth becomes: the Revenant was not a prison. It was an experiment. Its victims were kept conscious in the dark until fear itself became machinery.
Now that machinery has reached the Prelude.
Crew members hear the voices of the dead. Systems begin rewriting themselves. Old prison protocols appear inside a modern ship. As panic spreads and command begins to fracture, Lexi must decide how far she will go to save the living without becoming part of the same cruelty that built the grave.
Because the dead were waiting.
And something aboard the Revenant has learned how to wake.
The Ship of Ghosts is a chilling sci-fi horror novella packed with derelict-ship dread, buried atrocities, and the creeping terror of something that should never have survived the dark.