Psychological Horror Thriller

Bret Ellis, the narrator of Lunar Park, is the bestselling writer whose first novel Less Than Zero catapulted him to international stardom while he was still in college. In the years that followed he found himself adrift in a world of wealth, drugs, and fame, as well as dealing with the unexpected death of his abusive father.

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...

A writer in California. A doctor in Boston. A motel owner and his employee in Nevada. A priest in Chicago. A robber in New York. A little girl in Las Vegas. They’re a handful of people from across the country, living through eerie variations of the same nightmare.

It started the night journalist Briar Thorne’s mother died in their rambling old mansion on Chicago’s South Side. The nightmares of a woman in white pleading to come home, music switched on in locked rooms, and the panicked fear of being swallowed by the dark…Bri has almost convinced herself that these stirrings of dread are simply manifestations of grief and not the beyond-world of ghostly impossibilities her mother believed in. And more tangible terrors still lurk outside the decaying Victorian greystone.

Blaze is the story of Clayton Blaisdell, Jr., of the crimes committed against him and the crimes he commits, including his last, the kidnapping of a baby heir worth millions. Blaze has been a slow thinker since childhood, when his father threw him down the stairs and then threw him down again. After escaping an abusive institution for boys when he was a teenager, Blaze hooks up with George, a seasoned criminal who thinks he has all the answers.

Every so often a character so captures the hearts and imaginations of listeners that he seems to take on a life of his own long after the final chapter. For such a character, one book is not enough—listeners must know what happens next. Now Dean Koontz returns with the novel his fans have been demanding. With the emotional power and sheer storytelling artistry that are his trademarks, Koontz takes up once more the story of a unique young hero and an eccentric little town in a tale that is equal parts suspense and terror, adventure and mystery—and altogether irresistibly odd.

A collection of four critically acclaimed, gripping short novels that explore the darkness lurking within ordinary lives. 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 the next twenty-four hours, Brian will face a horrifying truth about his father—and himself. Rewind A man wakes in a decaying apartment, hooked to a mysterious machine, a dead body in the next room—...

Jutting from sparkling turquoise waters off the Italian coast, Isle Isola is an idyllic setting for a wedding. In the majestic cliff-top villa owned by the wealthy Compton family, up-and-coming artist Claire Hunter will marry handsome, charming Jack Compton, surrounded by close family, intimate friends…and a host of dark secrets.

Eric disappeared when he was three years old. Ben looked away for only a second at the grocery store, but that was all it took. His brother was gone. Vanished right into the sticky air of the Florida Panhandle. They say you've got only a couple days to find a missing person. Forty-eight hours to conduct searches, knock on doors, and talk to witnesses. Two days to tear the world apart if there's any chance of putting yours back together. That's your window. That window closed five years ago, leaving Ben's life in ruins.

"They say that serial killers secretly desire to be caught. That is not my truth, for I am driven by righteousness." In this riveting dark trilogy, the boundaries between reality and madness blur, plunging readers into a visceral journey through the minds of society’s most depraved individuals. Each story unravels a sinister tapestry, stitched together by the crimes of those whose acts transcend evil. Harbinger of Souls opens the trilogy with a disturbing prophecy—the harbinger of lost souls. In Shadows of Whitechapel, history's most infamous serial killer, is revived through vivid ...

Curator of paleontology Dr. Simon Nealy never expected to return to his Pennsylvania hometown, let alone the Hawthorne Museum of Natural History. He was just a boy when his six-year-old sister, Morgan, was abducted from the museum under his watch, and the guilt has haunted Simon ever since. After a recent breakup and the death of the aunt who raised him, Simon feels drawn back to the place where Morgan vanished, in search of the bones they never found.

Jimmy Tock comes into the world on the very night his grandfather leaves it. As a violent storm rages outside the hospital, Rudy Tock spends long hours walking the corridors between the expectant fathers' waiting room and his dying father's bedside. It's a strange vigil made all the stranger when, at the very height of the storm's fury, Josef Tock suddenly sits up in bed and speaks coherently for the frist and last time since his stroke. What he says before he dies is that there will be five dark days in the life of his grandson.

Dark Corners – A Psychological Horror by Donna Burgess In the dim confines of his apartment, John Crane is haunted by more than just memories. Following the early death of his beloved wife, Linda, John’s life spirals into a nightmarish descent of paranoia and fear. 😨 📌 Post-It notes appear—written in his own handwriting, but he has no recollection of writing them. 👁️ Whispers echo from the walls, voices that shouldn't exist. 👤 Shadows move with an unsettling awareness, creeping ever closer. As John struggles to hold onto his sanity, he uncovers a chilling connection ...

Solomon Reade is not alone in his own mind. Plagued by ancient voices, fractured spirits, and buried personas, he walks the line between man and myth. Some call him chosen. Others, cursed. In a world where identity is sacred and possession is criminal, Solomon becomes the battleground. Inspired by the biblical story of Legion, this supernatural psychological thriller unravels through a storm of inner warfare, spiritual politics, and haunted powers. As he uncovers the truth about who—or what—resides inside him, Solomon must make a choice: surrender to the voices, or become something more...

Cat lives in Los Angeles, far from 36 Westeryk Road, the imposing gothic house in Edinburgh where she and her estranged twin sister, El, grew up. As kids, they invented Mirrorland, a dark, imaginary place under the pantry stairs, full of pirates, witches, and clowns. These days, Cat rarely thinks about their childhood home, or the fact that El now lives there with her husband, Ross. But when El mysteriously disappears after going out on her sailboat, Cat is forced to return to 36 Westeryk Road, which hasn’t changed in twenty years.

When the fog lifted from the coastal town of Havenport, Evelyn Cross thought the nightmare was over. But peace doesn't last long in a place cursed by the ocean’s secrets. Now, something stirs beneath the waves. An ancient presence long buried in myth and madness. As bodies begin washing ashore and the sea whispers forgotten truths, Evelyn and her friend Ellie are drawn into a chilling mystery that threatens to unravel their minds and destroy their town. Haunted by the past and hunted by a force beyond comprehension, Evelyn must descend into the depths, both literal and psychological, to ...

Just your average father-son story. But with abduction, torture, and murder. Out of nowhere, a retired 60-year old handyman goes on a murder-spree, abducting healthy young people and torturing them with hand-tools. After he's caught, a media fascination in The Handyman swells. People want to know why he snapped. They want to hear all the grisly details. But he'll only tell his gruesome story to one person - his estranged son.

It was no secret that journalist Jack Sparks had been researching the occult for his new book. No stranger to controversy, he'd already triggered a furious Twitter storm by mocking an exorcism he witnessed. Then there was that video: 40 seconds of chilling footage that Jack repeatedly claimed was not of his making, yet it was posted from his own YouTube account. Nobody knew what happened to Jack in the days that followed - until now.

Humankind’s first mistake was the worst mistake in history. Tom and Katie Preston wind up in the small town of Manchineel while driving up north with their three children for a much-needed family vacation in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. The town is unlike any other they have seen in real life, photographs, or on screens -- a true paradise unrivaled in its natural beauty and pristine historic structures. Warm hospitality is followed by a lively supper with the church deacons and the town’s reverend discussing the town’s rich history. Having retired to sleep in good spirits, the ...

The only family Ruby Landry has ever known are her loving guardian Grandmere Catherine, a Cajun spiritual healer, and her drunken Grandpere Jack. Although thinking about her dead mother and mysterious father sometimes makes her feel sad and solemn, Ruby is grateful for what she has, especially when her attraction to handsome Paul Tate blossoms into a wonderful love affair. But Paul’s wealthy parents forbid him to associate with a poor Landry. Then, finding her father in his massive New Orleans mansion, Ruby is quickly subjected to his world of lies, torment...and madness.