Psychological Horror Thriller

For 30 years, a secret agency called the Southern Reach has monitored expeditions into Area X - a remote and mysterious place that's sequestered from civilization. After the twelfth expedition, the Southern Reach is in disarray, and John Rodriguez (a.k.a. "Control") is the team's newly appointed head. From a series of interrogations, a cache of hidden notes, and more than 200 hours of profoundly troubling video footage, the secrets of Area X begin to reveal themselves - and what they expose pushes Control to confront truths about both himself and the agency he's promised to serve.

The world is full of demons. They lurk in the shadows waiting for their next victim… PI Dean Steele has faced many great losses. Now reconnected with his long-lost son. The void he had all his life is finally full of love and optimism for the future. While attempting to take down The Board, he gets called to a perplexing case. A man was found in a B&B with a fatal head wound and a letter detailing his motive for suicide. With the reason and the clues left behind not quite adding up. Dean begins to suspect foul play behind the man’s death. While working on the case Dean witnesses many ...

There are places in this world where you can enter, but never leave... After witnessing and helping to solve many cases with FBI agent Emma Griffin, PI Dean Steele should get an honorary FBI badge as a reward. With Fall and its festivities rapidly approaching, Dean gets an urgent call. Four years ago, in the quiet town of Harper, three teens were murdered against the backdrop of Halloween. Their body parts were found in the most bewildering way. The body count has now risen and there are still no answers. When the family of the first victim hires Dean to get to the bottom of it, he is ...

Past midnight, Chyna Shepard, twenty-six, gazes out a moonlit window, unable to sleep on her first night in the Napa Valley home of her best friend’s family. Instinct proves reliable. A murderous sociopath, Edgler Foreman Vess, has entered the house, intent on killing everyone inside. A self-proclaimed “homicidal adventurer,” Vess lives only to satisfy all appetites as they arise, to immerse himself in sensation, to live without fear, remorse, or limits, to live with intensity. Chyna is trapped in his deadly orbit.

Rosie Daniels leaves her husband, Norman, after 14 years in an abusive marriage. She is determined to lose herself in a place where he won't find her. She'll worry about all the rest later. Alone in a strange city, she begins to make a new life, and good things finally start to happen. Meeting Bill is one, and getting an apartment is another. Still, it's hard for Rosie not to keep looking over her shoulder, and with good reason. Norman is a cop, with the instincts of a predator.

When Louise finds out her parents have died, she dreads going home. She doesn’t want to leave her daughter with her ex and fly to Charleston. She doesn’t want to deal with her family home, stuffed to the rafters with the remnants of her father’s academic career and her mother’s lifelong obsession with puppets and dolls. She doesn’t want to learn how to live without the two people who knew and loved her best in the world. Most of all, she doesn’t want to deal with her brother, Mark, who never left their hometown, gets fired from one job after another, and resents her success.

Evie is in the grip of a gambling addiction. She's terrified she'll destroy the lives of her husband and two small daughters, especially with her rising debt. She grabs onto a lifeline - the offer of a program that promises to heal addictions and give her a fresh start. Evie and 27 others from around the world travel to a monastery on a tiny Greek island to begin the program. There are six days and six challenges on the path to healing. Ten thousand dollars per challenge. Sixty thousand on completion. Enough to pay off debts and start anew.

When Dean receives a distraught phone call from his ex-girlfriend. He rushes to her home to find a horrific and dreadful scene... A ransacked house and her bloodied body lying on the floor. As the police and her husband arrive at the scene, Dean learns that his ex's son is also missing. While Dean searches for answers behind her death, a bombing kills a friend from his days in the military. At the memorial service, Dean has to confront people he hasn't seen in years while facing memories of a tragic event that left them all scarred. The situation takes a darker turn as mysterious classified...

In June 1993, a group of young guerilla filmmakers spent four weeks making Horror Movie, a notorious, disturbing, art-house horror flick. The weird part? Only three of the film’s scenes were ever released to the public, but Horror Movie has nevertheless grown a rabid fanbase. Three decades later, Hollywood is pushing for a big budget reboot.

Casey Fletcher, a recently widowed actress trying to escape a streak of bad press, has retreated to the peace and quiet of her family’s lake house in Vermont. Armed with a pair of binoculars and several bottles of bourbon, she passes the time watching Tom and Katherine Royce, the glamorous couple living in the house across the lake. They make for good viewing—a tech innovator, Tom is powerful; and a former model, Katherine is gorgeous.

He just wanted to belong. Now, he wants them to scream. Martin Keene is a ghost in his own life, a janitor invisible to the world. His only solace is his obsession with Bigfoot—a creature as misunderstood and isolated as he feels. When a local squatching group offers a fleeting chance at connection, their casual rejection ignites a terrifying spiral of delusion and rage within him. Deep in the remote Adirondack Mountains, Martin’s twisted fantasy takes root. If they hunt for a monster, he will give them one they will never forget. Donning a crude costume and fueled by a lifetime of ...

How do you stop a serial killer who can escape from any prison? On December 11, fifteen-year-old Helen Hinton is brutally murdered in an abandoned house. Her killer, Edward Phillips, is caught and sentenced to death. Helen's blood was on Edward's clothes and shoes, the murder weapon has his fingerprints on it. Edward claims he's innocent. He's telling the truth. Two months after Edward Phillips is transferred to death row, a murder similar to Helen's occurs in another city. The victim is eighteen-year-old Laura Sumner. On an October morning, Mark Hinton, Helen's father, visits Edward in ...

Everyone Disappeared but Me Strange Wake-Ups. One Chilling Question: Where Did Everyone Go? When the world ends, it doesn’t scream—it vanishes. In this haunting anthology, G.J. Fene delivers thirteen deeply immersive, first-person tales of eerie survival and dreamlike disappearance. Each story follows a different narrator who wakes to find themselves utterly alone—no people, no signals, no signs of struggle. Just echoes of a world that once was. But the silence hides something. A man finds traffic lights still changing, even though the roads are empty. A teenager follows footprints ...

For 30 years, a secret agency called the Southern Reach has monitored expeditions into Area X - a remote and lush terrain mysteriously sequestered from civilization. After the 12th expedition, the Southern Reach is in disarray, and John Rodriguez (a.k.a. "Control") is the team's newly appointed head. From a series of interrogations, a cache of hidden notes, and more than two hundred hours of profoundly troubling video footage, the secrets of Area X begin to reveal themselves....

A lifelike dummy. A strange dinner party. A soul that won’t stay dead. When struggling actor/waiter Luke Barrett is assigned to serve a bizarre memorial dinner, he doesn’t expect the guest of honor to be a creepy carpool dummy—or for the night to follow him home. But soon, Luke begins blacking out. Seeing things. Becoming someone else. As his reality unravels, he realizes the dummy isn’t just a lifeless prop. It’s watching. Waiting. And it wants in. From bestselling author William Massa comes a chilling short story of possession and occult terrors. A quick read that can be read or...

After the sudden death of his wife, Tom Kennedy believes a fresh start will help him and his young son Jake heal. A new beginning, a new house, a new town. Featherbank. But the town has a dark past. Twenty years ago, a serial killer abducted and murdered five residents. Until Frank Carter was finally caught, he was nicknamed "The Whisper Man," for he would lure his victims out by whispering at their windows at night.

The small town of Stragglersville is gripped by a series of grisly murders, each more baffling than the last. Detective Jessup is thrust into a chilling investigation when the reclusive Vera Jones is found dead, her body gruesomely deboned, with the bones meticulously stacked and stripped of all flesh. As Jessup delves deeper into the case, the town is enveloped in fear and suspicion. A malevolent force lurks in Stragglersville—and it’s just getting started. "Story of the Dolls" is a spine-tingling introduction to B. L. Norris’ *Dolly Nightmare Doll* series.

"Whispers in the Walls" is a gripping psychological thriller that will leave you breathless. When Emily Harper inherits her eerie childhood home, she uncovers a series of hidden journals detailing unsolved murders—and awakens a terrifying force connected to the house itself. As strange voices echo through the walls and sinister occurrences mount, Emily learns that the house is more than just haunted; it’s alive. Her investigation into the house's dark history leads her to uncover a vast, ancient network of supernatural power—one that feeds on the marked, like her. Alongside two ...

In the city of Raventon, where the gothic shadows of old Europe bleed into modern spires of glass and steel, a reclusive aristocrat arrives, captivating high society with his charm—and chilling those closest to him with a haunting presence. Lord Adrien Varnham is ageless, cultured, and impossibly beautiful. But behind his mesmerizing smile lies a dark secret buried for centuries. Evelyn Ashcroft, a young scholar mourning the loss of her father, finds herself drawn to Adrien’s mystery. But as people around her begin to die in bizarre and bloodless ways, she’s forced to question ...

The Hunger Within Some places don’t just haunt you… they consume you. When seven teenage volunteers agree to spend one night inside the long-abandoned Saint Elora Hospital for a fundraiser, it sounds like a thrill. Just ghosts. Just darkness. Just a dare. But Saint Elora isn’t empty. It’s waiting. Room by room, the hospital begins to unravel their minds, feeding off their fears, exposing their secrets, and twisting their pasts into living nightmares. One by one, hallucinations turn into truth. Trust fractures. Reality blurs. And survival depends not just on making it out alive—but...