Psychological Horror

What could be worse than being abducted, tormented, tortured? Finding out that the man you thought was sweet and kind is in fact a sadistic psycho? Who not only wants to make you suffer unendurable agony, but the ultimate goal is to eat you. This is the situation facing Amy. Her kind, caring nature leads to her downfall as she attempts to help someone she perceives as in need. Her world descends into a black pit of despair as she finds herself trapped in a cellar with four other young women. Each of them has a tale of unrelenting agony and torture to tell, a story so horrific it is the ...

Eleven-year-old Ava O’Brien has always been quiet, observant, and just a little different. But when she tells her parents about a day at school that ended in horror, they’re left shaken and uncertain. Ava’s story is chilling: classmates blindfolded and led into a hidden basement, masked figures performing unthinkable rituals, and a darkness so suffocating that it still haunts her dreams. Her details are vivid, her fear palpable—too vivid to dismiss as fantasy. Teddy and Barbara O’Brien want to believe it’s all in their daughter’s mind. But as cracks form in the facade of their...

The most terrifying predator in the ocean isn't hungry. It's smart. And it wants revenge. For marine biologist Mira, a week on the open ocean was an escape from a stalled career. For estranged brothers Jack and Rob, it was a final, desperate attempt to mend a family shattered by tragedy. Aboard the gleaming yacht Sea Pulse, they sought a quiet horizon. But the ocean had other plans. When a storm of unnatural ferocity rips their vessel apart, they are left adrift, clinging to a fragile life raft in an endless expanse of water. Their ordeal has just begun. They are not alone. The creature ...

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 ...

A terrifying mosaic of transformation and terror, "Eyes Like Mirrors, Flesh Like Ash" collects twenty macabre tales by Kevin Lintner that claw beneath the skin of reality. From a solo escape room session that unlocks an ancient evil, to haunted photographs that predict one's grotesque demise, each story delivers its own brand of psychological and cosmic horror. Enter cursed houses, twisted minds, eldritch forests, and nightmarish realities where flesh remembers, shadows whisper, and dreams consume. These stories are not for the faint of heart—they are for those who seek the forbidden, the...

Forty-two passengers. One of them is a serial killer. When Holly finds a phone with pictures of murdered women on it on the bus to Miami, she realizes that one of the passengers is a serial killer. A game of cat and mouse begins after the owner of the cell sends Holly a message saying that he wants his phone back. Holly's shocked to find out that the killer knows her name and address. She races against time as she and her fellow passenger Nick Hayden try to figure out the identity of the owner of the phone. When he murders a young woman during one of the stops, Holly fears he'll kill her ...

In the cursed town of Pine Hollow, reality is not what it seems. People vanish without a trace, their names erased from history, their existence rewritten by unseen forces. Dana Crowell has spent her life questioning the gaps in her memory, the disappearances no one else seems to notice—until the cycle finally comes for her. When she uncovers buried records of erased lives and forgotten truths, Dana realizes she isn’t the first to resist the Watchers—the shadowy entities controlling Pine Hollow from the darkness. With the help of someone who was taken decades ago but mysteriously ...

Oliver Park, a recovering addict from Indiana, finally has everything he ever wanted: sobriety and a loving, wealthy partner in Nathan, a prominent DC trauma surgeon. Despite their difference in age and disparate backgrounds, they've made a perfect life together. With everything to lose, Oliver shouldn't be visiting Haus, a gay bathhouse. But through the entrance he goes, and it's a line crossed. Inside, he follows a man into a private room, and it's the final line. Whatever happens next, Nathan can never know.

The honeymoon had been perfect, Layla and Andy were just starting the rest of their lives. So how did they end up incarcerated, hostages of a vile, Egyptian terrorist group? Starved, beaten and tortured, their hope fades as they descend into a pit of despair and torment, the four other captives taken with them suffering a similar fate. Desperate for ransom money, the terrorists spare no attention to detail when it comes to extracting money from the victims helpless families. Contains graphic scenes of torture.

When Joseph Palmer, one of the richest men in the world, was found murdered. Dead by midnight, during one of the year's most extravagant parties at his palatial mansion. Dean was hired to investigate the case. Although the case is now closed, Dean can’t help but feel that there’s more to his story. As he revisits the clues and digs deeper into Joseph’s past, he unearths a dark network. One that could threaten his life and the life of those he loves most. How did Joseph make his fortune? What happened to his wife and child? As the list of questions grows and the fabric of the case ...

Have you ever sensed an enigmatic presence lingering in the cosmos around you? A deadly force, held in check by either vigilant individuals or those fortunate souls who navigated the right path? Has your intuition ever stirred, hinting at something concealed beneath your bed or in the dim corners of your room? Does your small town or large city veil themselves in secrets, or do the stars above harbor a sinister malevolence, casting a looming threat upon our very existence? Dear readers, prepare to be immersed in an anthology that will transport you into the depths of every conceivable fear....

From the twisted mind of horror master Thomas M. Malafarina comes the eleventh short story collection in his Malaformed Realities series, appropriately entitled Malaformed Realities Volume 11. With thirteen terrifying tales of horror such as War Pigs, The Path, Scary Monsters, and many more, Thomas takes you into the deepest and darkest recesses of his bizarre imagination. Stories included in this volume: The Witch’s Tree War Pigs Be Careful What You Wish For The Death Patrol Seeing is Believing Jury Duty Hair of the Doll that Kills You The Staring Boy Grundies Scary Monsters Christmas ...

Revenge or redemption. Which would you choose? Twenty-five years ago, Kristi King was one of the hottest porn stars in America, a sexy young vixen lusted after by millions. But one Halloween night, her world was shattered. A sadistic, baby-faced psychopath and predator brutalized, violated, and humiliated her, before kidnapping her to satisfy his own dark and twisted desires. Now, having rebuilt her life as a psychologist and victim's right advocate, she finds herself sitting across a table from the man who tortured her, as part of a "restorative justice" confrontation, reliving every ...

When a quiet mountain town becomes a hotspot for unexplained phenomena, Mara Winters—ghost hunter, vlogger, and survivor of her own haunted past—arrives desperate for answers. But the deeper she digs, the more the town’s secrets twist around her, stirring old memories she can’t trust and uncovering a force more disturbing than anything she's faced before. Haunted Secrets is the third book in the chilling Haunted Truth series, a psychological thriller that plunges readers into a world where the line between reality and illusion blurs beyond recognition. Darkly atmospheric and ...

Read this with Vincent Price's voice in your head. In the world's forgotten corners of the darkness, where shadows stretch long and whispers never fade, Stories that will make you Sh17 yourself, weave together a chilling collection of ghostly and supernatural tales. Each of the 40 stories explores a different haunted place, where the past refuses to stay buried and fear takes on a life of its own. From eerie carnivals and cursed paintings to malevolent mansions and spectral islands, these stories delve into the unknown, where the boundary between reality and nightmare begins to blur. Within...

What starts as a lucrative hunt for a legendary creature in a remote, protected wilderness turns into a desperate battle for survival. For three men, the promise of fame and fortune is too great to ignore. But when their monstrous steel trap snaps shut, the prize is not a simple beast. They haven’t trapped a monster; they've started a war with a vengeful, intelligent entity that knows the woods like the back of its hand. Stranded by a ferocious blizzard and cut off from the outside world, their gear is systematically destroyed with chilling precision. The hunter has become the hunted. Led...

A house with no furniture. Seven bodies posed like performance art. No signs of forced entry. No screams. No sounds. No fingerprints. Only a spiral. When former detective turned reluctant consultant is called to a chilling new crime scene, it feels less like a discovery and more like a message—one composed with precision, soaked in silence, and dripping with intention. The killer didn’t just commit murder; he designed it. Each room a stage, each body a symbol, and at the center of it all: a presence she thought she’d buried long ago. Helix is a mind-bending psychological horror ...

The New York Times best-selling author of the Nightside series, Simon R. Green has won widespread acclaim and an immense following for his Secret Histories novels featuring Eddie “Shaman Bond” Drood. In Green’s action-packed riff on everyone’s favorite superspy, Eddie once again finds himself at the center of supernatural intrigue. And even though protecting humanity from the forces of darkness is nothing new to Eddie, he now faces a threat that’s leaving him both shaken and stirred.

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.

A series of apocalyptic underground explosions shatters the globe, plunging humanity into chaos. For Grace and Tom, survival means isolation in their apartment, where the outside world has turned into a suffocating fog of fear. But as the days stretch into nights, the horrors beyond their walls are matched only by the chilling visions haunting Grace’s mind. Something is out there—something ancient, something waiting. And as Grace begins to uncover the secrets she’s kept buried for years, she realizes the darkness may be closer than she ever imagined. Lowlands is a spellbinding journey...