Psychological Horror Thriller

Aaron Fortin is new in town. He drives a brand-new Acura—a gift from his parents for uprooting him in the middle of senior year. Showing up on his first day at the local public school in that nice of a car? He knows he’ll never blend in, and he doesn’t care to try. The car, the new-kid mystique, he can use all that.... Crystal Giordano carpools to the same school in her friend Trevor’s beat-up van. In the van along with Crystal and Trevor are Paul, Harmony, and Gayle. Crystal’s technically part of their misfit group, but most of the time, she feels like she’s the only one who doesn’t fit.

Their Collapse is the fourth haunting installment in the critically acclaimed The Weight of Your Shadow series by dark fiction author Ava Rowens. Told in chilling second-person perspective, the series follows you, an intelligent, unsettling presence living two lives—one curated, one compelled. After orchestrating the “cleansing” of a toxic factory owner in a small town that would rather forget, you return home unchanged on the surface—but deeper fractures have started to show. The women of the last kill still echo in your head. The blank hours, the absence of control, the ...

WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU LIED? The first lie: MONSTERS DON’T EXIST. When the body of a man is discovered in the Boston Common, Martina finds herself entering a horrific nightmare. She discovers evidence of the unimaginable: the resurgence of ancient methods of persecution being carried out by a Puritan-indoctrinated serial killer who believes the devil walks among us. The second lie: YOU WOULD KNOW A MONSTER IF YOU SAW ONE. After the first victim is dismissed as gang-related, Martina fears there is more to the murder than meets the eye. Her instincts are soon proven correct when another...

Something ancient and terrifying lurks in the depths of Scape Ore Swamp. Lance Simms and Mark Briggs thought they were on a routine alligator hunt. They had their sights set on a record-breaking bull gator, but what they found was something else entirely—something that shouldn’t exist. When Mark is dragged beneath the water by a monstrous, reptilian creature, Lance barely escapes with his life. Now, the case has caught the attention of Dark Angel Medical—or rather, the team that operates behind its cover. Rick, Doc, Sarah, and D.A. have dealt with things most people wouldn’t believe...

Leah was unemployed, broke, and desperate. A few years earlier, a fatal car crash took the lives of Leah’s beloved husband and their two babies, leaving her disabled. Life looked bleak. Then she met Mason. He was charming, charismatic, persuasive, and a successful businessman, well respected in the community. His teenage daughter did nothing to welcome Leah into the family, but life is never perfect. And the nightmares began the day the dog died… Two years into her second marriage, Leah Brand’s world is turned upside down. Inanimate objects move, her clothes are left out for the ...

When a missing girl’s trail reopens in a coastal town that survives on forgetting, one woman must confront the secrets she ran from—and the silence she helped create. After ten years away, she returns to care for her ailing father—but the town hasn’t moved on. Whispers follow her. Eyes linger. No one says it aloud, but they all remember the girl who vanished… and the last person to see her alive. When torn pages from a diary surface beneath the floorboards, she’s forced to face what she buried: the truth doesn’t rot—it waits. In a town where everyone is complicit and silence...

Are you a fan of Stephen King and Dean Koontz? If you're looking for something fresh and new, join the millions of readers who have already taken the journey to the World's Scariest Places. USA Today and #1 Amazon bestselling author Jeremy Bates takes you to an infamous haunted island scattered with thousands of eerie dolls—where more than just the toys’ glassy eyes are upon you. Foreword Indies Book of the Year winner. For fans of Joe Hill and Stephen King. Deep within an ancient Aztec canal system on the outskirts of Mexico City lies Isla de las Munecas...a reportedly haunted island ...

They told her the pattern ended. That he was gone. That she could stop looking. But the murders are moving again—and this time, the spiral isn’t leading her in circles. Detective Addison Carrow is chasing something only she can see. As crime scenes become personal and memories resurface that were never hers to begin with, Addison begins to suspect she was never just following a killer—she was part of the structure all along. And the deeper she follows it, the more she realizes: this isn't a case. It's a design. And she's standing at its center. Coil is the second installment in the ...

When a string of peaceful deaths begins targeting survivors of domestic violence, prosecutor Elena Marquez is drawn into a case that doesn’t look like murder—until she realizes the killer believes he's saving them. Now, Elena must confront a twisted new gospel of silence, before another woman disappears into its promise of mercy. Silent Ghost is the gripping second book in The Prosecutor’s Journals, a dark and suspenseful new psychological thriller series by bestselling author Blake Pierce. Following the haunting events of Silent Pattern (Book #1), Elena Marquez returns in a chilling ...

Now reduced to a schoolyard chant, the Hope family murders shocked the Maine coast one bloody night in 1929. While most people assume seventeen-year-old Lenora was responsible, the police were never able to prove it. Other than her denial after the killings, she has never spoken publicly about that night, nor has she set foot outside Hope’s End, the cliffside mansion where the massacre occurred.

USA TODAY and #1 AMAZON bestselling author Jeremy Bates presents the complete collection of the award-winning Midnight Book Club short novels. With fast-paced plots and stunning twists, these stories offer close to 1,000 pages of heart-racing suspense, action, and terror from one of today's most exciting voices in horror. Black Canyon Twelve-year-old Brian Garrett embarks on a weekend camping trip in Colorado’s Black Canyon of the Gunnison, hoping to reconnect with his distant parents. But when his father suffers a brutal accident deep in the chasm, survival takes a sinister turn. Over ...

(Full Book) A Psychological Thriller Soon adapted for the big screen. A debut psychological thriller that will forever change the way you look at other people's lives. “After the hit saga Misión Verne and The Cloud, Mario Escobar sweeps us up in a riveting adventure set against the backdrop of the financial crisis, the dark nooks and crannies of power, and the city of London.” Comments from readers on Amazon: “This is an entertaining read, a really interesting story full of intrigue. When I got to the ‘To Be Continued’ spot, I was on the edge of my seat waiting for the second ...

When a series of brutal new murders begins to echo the silent killings of a decade past, former detective Laura Hensley is pulled back into a nightmare she thought she buried. Haunted by dreams she doesn't remember having and a killer who leaves no trace, Laura’s journal once again becomes her only place to untangle what’s real—and what’s been watching her from the dark all along. DARK BENEATH is the second installment in the deeply unsettling Laura Hensley Journal Series by #1 bestselling author Ava Rowens, whose chilling narratives blend psychological horror with immersive, slow-...

In the slums of 18th-century France, Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born with one sublime gift - an absolute sense of smell. As a boy, he lives to decipher the odors of Paris and apprentices himself to a prominent perfumer who teaches him the ancient art of mixing precious oils and herbs. But Grenouille's genius is such that he is not satisfied to stop there, and he becomes obsessed with capturing the smells of objects. Then one day, he catches a hint of a scent that will drive him on an ever-more-terrifying quest to create the "ultimate perfume" - the scent of a beautiful young virgin.

Christian Windsor is a certified genius. He's also autistic. At 23 years old, with two PhDs, Christian joins the FBI's most dangerous division, The Exceptional Crimes Unit. His first assignment? A serial killer on a rampage. Nicknamed The Surgeon, he's cutting the eyeballs out of women. That's not the only psychopath lurking in the shadows, though. There's another, and Christian can't see him.

One of Jane Austen’s most beloved works, Pride and Prejudice, is vividly brought to life by Academy Award nominee Rosamund Pike ( Gone Girl). In her bright and energetic performance of this British classic, she expertly captures Austen’s signature wit and tone. Her attention to detail, her literary background, and her performance in the 2005 feature film version of the novel provide the perfect foundation from which to convey the story of Elizabeth Bennet, her four sisters, and the inimitable Mr. Darcy.

UPDATE: On May 6th, I published the Second Edition with a new ending. Please check that the book you buy states Second Edition on the Copyright page. Speed Kills The Learjet spirals out of control, then crashes into the Pacific. Onboard, Celerity, young, rich, and the world's most famous female athlete. The world is stunned. Recordings are discovered—a diary of her rapid rise to fame and fortune—her secrets revealed one by one. Celerity usually comes in second at UCLA track—the first loser, her coach would say. But she is encouraged by her father, a botanist, her only parent. Then he ...

There’s a dress in Daisy’s closet. Silver. Low-backed. Tiny spaghetti straps. She’ll wear it to prom on the arm of Harris Zandari, the most gorgeous senior at her school. How did quiet, barely-there Daisy, land Harris Zandari? She watched him. She watched him so closely, and for so long, that she saw things no one else did. She saw through his charm, his bright, smiling face, to the sad, broken person underneath just waiting for the perfect sad, broken girl to complete him. Daisy was that girl.

In the chilling world of eighteen-year-old Zachary Williams, demons lurk in the shadows, tormenting his very existence. For years, he endured unspeakable physical and emotional abuse at the hands of his parents, a malevolent upbringing that transformed an innocent soul into a sadistic killer. But the Williams family holds more than just sinister secrets; they possess an insidious mastery of darkness. This is Zachary's harrowing tale, recounted in his own words to court-appointed criminal psychologist, Dr. Allen Creed. As Dr. Creed delves deeper into Zachary's fractured psyche, he ...

The Oaks is an idyllic, up-market country club—but its ornately carved walls hide a horrific past. Sixty years ago the house was an asylum, home to crazed psychopaths. One night all of them disappeared, never to be seen again. Jack Reed, the owner of The Oaks, has no idea about the building's terrible history. It is only when Jack's son is dragged into the walls of the mansion that he realises what happened sixty years ago—and just where the inmates have been living all this time...