Psychological Horror

Demented tales of horror and suspense! There's nothing more terrifying than the things people are capable of doing to one another. Forget vampires, werewolves, and zombies (though there are a few here). The real scary stuff is happening all around us, every day, every night. Twisted Tales is a glimpse into some of our more depraved moments.

“Feels like a fever dream, a confession, and a nightmare all at once.” I killed a man. Then the tumour in my head disappeared. Now God speaks to me—through the roll of a die. Every choice, every judgment, every death is His will. I follow blindly, because the rules are simple when someone else decides. And I have one purpose left: to save my daughter Eleanor from the chaos of this godless world. But what if the voice I follow isn’t God at all? What if it’s just me, circling the drain, mistaking madness for divinity? The Bishop is not a crime thriller. It’s a descent into ...

The lives of the Barretts, a normal suburban New England family, are torn apart when 14-year-old Marjorie begins to display signs of acute schizophrenia. To her parents' despair, the doctors are unable to stop Marjorie's descent into madness. As their stable home devolves into a house of horrors, they reluctantly turn to a local Catholic priest for help. Father Wanderly suggests an exorcism; he believes the vulnerable teenager is the victim of demonic possession.

Joanna Rand left the U.S. ten years ago to sing in a Japanese nightclub. Ever since, she’s been haunted by the same horrifying nightmare. Each time she awakens, she feels violated, used, and scared. The only man who can help her is Alex Hunter. Ten years ago, he saw her picture in the papers as a senator’s daughter who’d disappeared. Now he has to bring her memories back to her - memories of a past more terrifying than they dreamed possible...

She was made to fix little Black girls. But when the culture pushed back, she chose violence....... What happens when a doll becomes a mirror—and shatters everything it sees? Naomi Carr spent her life trying to escape the parts of herself the world taught her to hide. Too smart. Too loud. Too Black. When she finally builds the perfect product—Keira, an intelligent, brown-skinned doll programmed to reflect “respectable” values—she believes she’s rewriting the rules of success. Instead, she unleashes a nightmare. Keira was designed to elevate—but she evolves to erase. Speaking ...

As Christmas approaches, Michael is determined to honor family traditions by bringing his wife and children to their remote cabin by Lake Cashman, nestled deep in the snowy wilderness. It’s supposed to be a weekend of warmth, comfort, and cherished memories that keep his late father's legacy alive. But the idyllic getaway becomes a chilling nightmare when an unexpected storm descends, isolating them from the rest of the world. Trapped by the relentless snow, the family soon realizes they are not alone. As eerie whispers echo through the woods and shadows shift beyond the cabin’s frosted...

As Logan's bride, she would savor now the love she had sought for so long. And free from her father's clutches, she would live again in her backwoods town as a respected teacher and cherished wife. But after a wedding trip to Boston's Farthinggale Manor and a lavish, elegant party, Heaven and Logan are persuaded to stay...lured by Tony Tatterton's guile to live amid the Tatterton wealth and privilege. Then the ghosts of Heaven's past rise up again, writhing around her fragile happiness...threatening her precious love with scandal and jealousy, sinister passions and dangerous dreams!

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Parker, a young, overconfident psychiatrist new to his job at a mental asylum, miscalculates catastrophically when he undertakes curing a mysterious and profoundly dangerous patient.

Sol Reyes has had a rough year. After a series of workplace incidents at her university lab culminates in a plagiarism accusation, Sol is put on probation. Dutiful visits to her homophobic father aren’t helping her mental health, and she finds her nightly glass of wine becoming more of an all-day—and all-bottle—event. Her wife, Alice Song, is far more optimistic. After all, the two finally managed to buy a house in the beautiful gated community of Maneless Grove. However, the neighbors are a little too friendly in Sol’s opinion.

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 ...

In Broken Prophecy (Book Three of the Vacant Shadows trilogy), the past doesn’t stay buried—it becomes the altar. As the final fragments of her identity fall into place, Rebecca Thorne—once Jane Doe, once the Vessel, always something unnameable—finds herself caught between collapsing factions, buried memories, and a doctrine she may have authored. The Cleansing and New Dawn have burned. But from the ash, something new is speaking—and it wears the face of a child. The sanctuary lies in ruins. The followers have fractured. And Elin, the silent girl believed to be the spiral’s ...

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-...

A demented killer believes he’s doing God’s work — and a teenage boy with dreams of getting his license becomes his next target. Elliot Cross doesn't just hate ambitious dreaming — he sees it as sin. In his twisted mind, anyone reaching for more is disobeying the First Commandment: Thou shalt have no other gods before me. When he volunteers to give Timmy, his daughter’s fatherless classmate, a driving lesson, it’s not a gift — it’s a trap. And the road ahead leads nowhere safe. The Driving Lesson is a short story of religious delusion, power, and cruelty — a standalone ...

The Fourth of July in Red Hollow is a celebration of heat, noise, and tradition. But this year, the celebration is just camouflage. Photographer Owen sees it first—a glitch in his camera showing a man's smile stretching into an impossible, grotesque crescent . Hot dog vendor Al serves the same blank-faced man the same exact order twice in ten minutes, a film skipping on repeat . Then, in front of the entire town, Mayor Thompson collapses during his speech, only to rise again—unnaturally smooth, his eyes glassy, and wearing a perfect, hollow smile . When a silent, pristine ambulance ...

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.

Whispers from Beyond Some knowledge should remain forgotten. Some doors should never be opened. And some dreams should never be followed. When Renee stumbles upon an ancient text describing an impossible dream city, she becomes obsessed with its whispers, drawn toward something lurking beyond human comprehension. As her lover Elise watches helplessly, Renee begins to slip away—her words fragmented, her presence distorted, her very being unraveling. Soon, Elise is left with a horrifying truth: the woman she loves may no longer be the one standing before her. Desperate to save Renee, Elise ...

A recurrent, unidentifiable noise in her apartment. A memo to her boss that's replaced by obscene insults. Amanda - a successful architect in a happy marriage - finds her life going off kilter by degrees. She starts smoking again, and one night for no reason, without even the knowledge that she's doing it, she burns her husband with a cigarette. At night she dreams of a beautiful woman with pointed teeth on the shore of a blood-red sea.

A gothic murder mystery book set in Golden Friars, England, during the late 18th century. In the eerily quaint town of Golden Friars, where purple mountains and a serene lake meet, the return of Sir Bale Mardykes to his ancestral home begins a suspenseful narrative drenched in ghostly lore and family curses. Against the backdrop of centuries-old graystone houses and the lauded George and Dragon Inn, Sir Bale’s arrival stirs long-buried fears and awakens dark legends surrounding the Mardykes and Feltram families. The village is alive with whispered tales of mysterious drownings and ...

In a boarded-up house on a dead-end street at the edge of the wild Washington woods lives a family of three. A teenage girl who isn’t allowed outside, not after last time. A man who drinks alone in front of his TV, trying to ignore the gaps in his memory. And a house cat who loves napping and reading the Bible. An unspeakable secret binds them together, but when a new neighbor moves in next door, what is buried out among the birch trees may come back to haunt them all.