Psychological Horror

A city is hit by a sudden and strange epidemic of "white blindness", which spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there social conventions quickly crumble and the struggle for survival brings out the worst in people.

There's something special about eight-year-old Rhoda Penmark. With her carefully plaited hair and her sweet cotton dresses, she's the very picture of old-fashioned innocence. But when their neighborhood suffers a series of terrible accidents, her mother begins to wonder: Why do bad things seem to happen when little Rhoda is around?

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 ...

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 ...

What if the monster wasn’t hiding in the shadows—what if it was hiding inside you? Dr. Elijah Kade was a pioneer in gene therapy, celebrated for pushing the boundaries of modern science. But when a secret experiment intended to unlock the body’s full potential turns into a nightmare, Elijah finds himself caught between two worlds—man and beast. Each transformation leaves a deeper scar, not just on his body, but on his soul. Haunted by blackouts, hunted by the biotech corporation that created him, and driven by a hunger he cannot control, Elijah must unravel the truth behind a ...

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.

Thirteen bibliomysteries by best-selling and award-winning authors are contained in this first of volume of a must-listen collection.

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 ...

If you want to catch a serial killer, you need to think like one. “An extremely gripping and fast-paced crime thriller . . . will draw you in from the very start [and] blindside you with disturbing twists and turns.” —The Eclectic Review Greg Adams, a criminal psychologist at Scotland Yard, specialises in bringing serial killers to justice. He is at the top of his game, having just put away his sixth serial killer when his wife, Kate, is brutally murdered by another predator known as the Dreamer. A year later, unable to bring the killer to justice, Greg has quit his job and is ready ...

With unforgettable characters, a sweeping backdrop, and passionate storytelling, this is a fantasy debut to rival that of Robert Jordan. Filled with adventure and bloodshed, pageantry and piracy, mystery and menace, Assassin's Apprentice is the story of a royal house and the young man who is destined to chart its course through tempests of change.

If you love Insidious, the Conjuring, or Sinister, Dark is right up your alley Arinna seems to be trapped in a world full of darkness. While trying to escape her past, and the terrible thing she’s done, she finds herself looking the dark in the face time after time. Dean tried to teach Arinna about the darkness, about the marks that call to the dead, but she can’t seem to understand how these symbols keep finding her. Someone, or something, wants to get to her, and it’s becoming clear, they’ll stop at nothing until they do. She is faced with the realization of who she really is, ...

Weaver’s Web A Nordic Gothic psychological horror novella An archaeologist losing her mind. A daughter grasping for truth. A buried evil that feeds on the forgotten. Dr. Ellie Bennett was once at the peak of her field—until early-onset Alzheimer’s began unraveling her memory. But when she uncovers a forgotten Viking burial site in Newfoundland, she doesn’t just awaken history… she awakens Skuggr Valdr—the Shadow Ruler, an ancient entity based on Norse Mythology that according to sagas, preys on minds caught between life and death. As hallucinations, memory lapses, and violence ...

I'm looking after my sick mother... but am I the only one? For the past two years, fifteen year old Hannah has been overburdened since her mother Caroline's nervous breakdown. Hannah's brother is gone, her father has remarried, and the family friends have abandoned them. There's no one left. No one but Hannah. While Hannah dreams of a day where her mother wakes up feeling better... the worst is yet to come. Behind the scenes, a dark presence has been taking shape in Caroline's mind. She comes to believe that a strange girl has been visiting the house while Hannah's at school. This girl ...

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 ...

When the scattered remains of a missing girl begin to surface in a town desperate to forget, one woman must unravel the truth hidden beneath decades of silence — before the past buries her too. In For Her Pain, the devastating third book of the For Her Silence series by psychological suspense author Ava Rowens, pain isn’t just remembered — it’s inherited. Returning to a town that turned its back on her once already, the unnamed narrator must confront the ghosts stitched into the very soil she walks on. With buried voices clawing their way back to the surface, and the town’s ...

Alice shouldn’t have opened this book, but she did. Some novels want to be read. THE BOOK demands it. Hidden in a dusty box for years, a plain, green book is mailed to the library of a psychiatric hospital. It is sentient. It watches. It listens and manipulates. Dr Alice Grant is understaffed. One patient away from burnout, THE BOOK wants her. She’s special, but she’s not the only one. Her patients—especially a fragmented Dissociative Identity Disorder collective—fixate on the book, each headmate experiencing devastating horrors. In this fusion of horror and psychological intrigue...

"The way Jonas built up the atmosphere of menace to an all-encompassing evil is frightening and shocking. The magnitude, the scale of badness, blew me away." —Liz Nugent, author of Strange Sally Diamond. Something is wrong—horribly wrong—in the deep woods of Oregon. People age at accelerated rates and then disappear. Hundreds of disappearances have occurred in the area for decades—a veritable Bermuda Triangle on land. Even the authorities sent in to investigate the disappearances have gone missing. After that, the government stepped in and fenced off the entire area. But when four ...

A novel of memory, revenge, and the cost of silence. When a woman returns to the house where everything happened, she doesn’t come for closure—she comes with a box of matches. In the wake of a man’s death by fire, a woman begins to unravel the truth she buried years ago, one journal entry at a time. But memory is never linear, and truth doesn’t come clean. As voices from her past rise through the smoke—some hers, some not—she begins to understand that what she did can’t be undone. And worse: that she might not want to. For Her Anger is the first novel in a haunting companion ...

After years of questioning her sanity, Kat Delancey reluctantly returns to the old family manor as its legal owner, hoping desperately to silence the doubts in her mind and leave the home's tragic past behind her once and for all. But it turns out to be harder than she expected, and not just because of the estranged step-family waiting for her - because maybe Kat's mind was never playing tricks on her after all, and maybe the manor harbors a far more malevolent presence than she ever dreamed...

A suspense novel concerning Lieutenant Frank Mooney's quest to find the killer who has robbed, raped and murdered several New York women. The killer, and his female accomplice, realize someone is copying them and track down a second murderer. Written by the author of City of the Dead.