Psychological Anthology

Twenty-eight-year-old Kade hasn't been able to make it past his sidewalk in eight years. In this chilling short story, you will be given a glimpse into the inner workings of his mind as he goes through the process of trying to face his irrational but very real fears.

Lonnie is tired. He's tired of his job, the monotony of it, and tired of the predictability ofhis home life now that he's a father. It's a day like every other day, and hecan't face the inevitability of it all. So he lies. It's a small lie, but heknows small lies become big ones. He knows it as soon as he says his daughteris in the hospital. But he can't stop himself, and he can't stop the lie fromtaking on a life of its own.

Fat People is an entirely unique fictional look at the emotions and experiences of those who live to eat: the estrangement, loneliness, embarrassment, fear, defeated sexuality, unresolved anger, but also the simple pleasure of food.

Do you tend to take life for granted? We may or may not take life for granted, but we all seem to ignore death entirely. Having a human life means wanting to acquire, wanting to keep indefinitely. Yet, as we get closer to death, our goals tend to change from wanting stuff to giving possessions away. It seems the meaning of life isn’t what we own, but more of what we might have learned, grown from, and experienced.

Die Familie des Kommerzienrats macht Ferien am Gardasee. Aus unruhigen Träumen erwacht, bemerkt der Vater, dass seine neunzehnjährige Tochter sich in ihr Zimmer zurückschleicht – um vier Uhr morgens! Er ist entrüstet, entsetzt, verbittert – und versucht herauszubekommen, welcher der drei Herren, die die schöne Erna umschwirren, ihm sein Kind genommen hat. Und so beginnt sein eigener Untergang.

En la ciudad de Mordasoff, Marya Aleksandrovna Moskalyova, una ambiciosa mujer, intenta casar a su hija Zina, de veintitrés años con el adinerado y noble anciano Príncipe "K", quien tras haber volcado su carruaje pasa por la casa en la que ellas viven para que le asistan. Zina es considerada mayor para estar soltera y, entre las razones que explican por qué aún no se ha casado, la principal es el siniestro rumor sobre algunas extrañas relaciones que tuvo hace un año y medio con un pobre maestro de la escuela del distrito.

In electric prose T. C. Boyle explores myriad facets of society: greed and excess, parenthood and responsibility, the digital world and the way we understand our mortality. Roaming unrestrainedly through the present and near future, he inhabits his characters’ minds with a ventriloquist’s flair, skewering human motivations and revealing us to ourselves with empathy and wry humour.

THE THRILLER AND SHAMUS AWARD WINNING SERIES! When PI Dick Moonlight agrees to serve as the designated post-operative procedure driver for his sometime sidekick, Roland Hills, aka, Fat Elvis, little does he know that what awaits him inside the Albany Surgical Center is one of the most dangerous and bizarre hostage situations possible. Not only does a stunningly beautiful female inmate who's been transferred to the facility for a small operation shoot her law enforcement captors in cold blood, she or he as it turns out, won't agree to release any hostages until the doctors agree to give her ...

Psychology is a 1920 short story by Katherine Mansfield. It was first published in Bliss and Other Stories. A man visits a woman for tea. He tells her this is the only place he pays attention to in terms of its furniture and so on. He also loves her 'little boy'. They then talk about the state of the novel as a literary genre - coming to the conclusion that the psycho-novel is shoddy. She feels anguished about possibly having failed in not following suit with that genre however, and he leaves...

Environmentalist, Activist and Author T. Patanjali Sastri is back with a new anthology of original short stories with 'Samantaralu.' Connecting these stories is the intrigue that is the human psyche—there are only experiences, and the memory of those experiences that form the essence of how we go through life. It is the wisdom acquired: to gain, to lose, to quarrel, to remember, to feel a sense of impending death, that culminate into our thoughts and intelligence. There's nothing to understand about life, the author argues; it is only an understanding of oneself that is needed.

The human mind… a maze of secrets and contradictions! Why do we act the way we do? What really controls our decisions? A philosophical journey into the depths of human behavior!

Karley Diobi is the wife of successful mayor of Brockton, Massachusetts, Cash Diobi. While their marriage seems successful to the public, Karley is dealing with hell indoors. Trying to portray the perfect mayor wife, Karley tries to find her way out by any means necessary.

Perfect for fans of Carmen Maria Machado and Kelly Link, Jo Paquette’s Stories I Told My Dead Lover contains eight searing tales of psychological horror that probe the darkest and most deeply buried parts of the human psyche. A child is forced to grow up too soon. A woman trusts her doctor too much. An abandoned woman isn’t as alone as she thinks. An idyllic holiday masks an unspeakable act of violence. Driven, desperate, fighting for the power to choose their own fate, Paquette’s characters dare to push back at the walls that hold them in.

From Roald Dahl, the master of the sting in the tail, a newly collected audiobook of his darkest stories, read by Will Self, Adrian Scarborough, Stephanie Beacham, Andrew Scott, Richard E Grant, Tamsin Greig, Mark Heap, Juliet Stevenson and Jessica Hynes. Even when we mean to be kind we can sometimes be cruel. We all have streaks of nastiness inside us. In these ten tales of cruelty, master storyteller Roald Dahl explores how and why it is we make others suffer.

Ripples in Reality: A Mosaic of Mind-Bending Mysteries is an exhilarating journey through the labyrinth of imagination, penned by debut author Freddie Rodgers. Each story, inspired by the likes of Stephen King, Agatha Christie, and the groundbreaking series Black Mirror, draws you into a universe where reality trembles, time bends, and the mind soars.

On the surface, Brooke seems to have it all: She lives in Los Angeles with a decent boyfriend and has a steady income as a model and a promising career as an aspiring author. But her life begins to spiral into a vortex of drugs and depression as she learns more about the dark side of her modeling agency. At first, she is just as hollow and jaded as those around her, but behind the painted face, there is a vulnerable person walking down a dark and desperate path.

Two frightening psychological thrillers, as only Willow Rose can deliver it. Better Watch Out: Some kids are scared of the dark, others of monsters living under their beds. Some are even afraid of clowns. None of those things scare Sara. But she is terrified of one man who comes to her house every year in the middle of the night. The Bird: When five-year-old Winnie finds a little bird that is hurt, she wants to take it in and take care of it. Her mother is reluctant. She is terrified of birds. As she rightfully should be.

Seven strange stand-alone tales involving unusual people caught in disturbing circumstances are presented in this collection.

Diverse, dark-humored, and deliciously bite-sized, you'll love this compelling collection of 16 psychological suspense short stories. If you're a fan of Roald Dahl or Gillian Flynn, you'll love these unsettling stories with a twist in the tale. Are you ready to stay up all night with USA Today best-selling author JT Lawrence?

Em "Dentro da noite", Rodolfo conta a um amigo, durante uma viagem de trem, sua compulsão em espetar moças com alfinetes. Ele começou por sua noiva, sentindo a necessidade inexplicável de machucar a pele branca de seu belo braço, fazendo-a sofrer. Ela aceita passivamente a tortura, revelando-se a vítima perfeita para o sadismo do noivo. Até que o rito é interrompido quando o pai descobre e desfaz o compromisso. Rodolfo, então, procura prostitutas, que passam a desprezá-lo por sua crueldade inofensiva. Enfim, ele passa a atacar jovens aleatórias na rua, vítimas de oportunidade.