Psychological Horror

Late one moonlit night, Walter Hartright encounters a solitary and terrified woman dressed all in white. He saves her from capture by her pursuers and determines to solve the mystery of her distress and terror. Inspired by an actual criminal case, this gripping tale of murder, intrigue, madness and mistaken identity has never been out of print since its publication and brought Collins great fame and success.

What if the real horror isn’t what you see—but what you remember? From debut author Scott Oscar comes Neural Static, a collection of six unsettling stories that dig deep into the fault lines of memory, perception, and the creeping sense that something isn’t quite right. These aren’t your typical ghosts. These are the echoes that follow you home, the whispers caught in broken recordings, the distortions that grow louder the more you try to ignore them. In these chilling tales: A grieving son is drawn into a decades-old list of haunted mirrors with deadly, shifting reflections. A ...

A crumbling marriage. A remote inn. A room that doesn’t forget. Lena and Marcus check into the Everpine Inn hoping to fix what’s broken between them. But when Lena wakes up the next morning, Marcus is gone—and the front desk insists he was never there. Her name is on the registry. His isn’t. His clothes, his suitcase, even his scent—vanished. Room 43 has secrets. What begins as a desperate search for her missing husband spirals into a psychological nightmare. The room shifts. Her memories blur. And when Lena meets a woman who looks exactly like her—living her life inside the inn...

Marti Greenwood has just moved into a brand-new home after a bitter divorce from her husband Emery, and while she’s still not quite done with him - of course, some of her most cherished possessions are nowhere to be found once she unpacks her things - a fresh start in a beautiful LA neighborhood is exactly what she needs. But days after her arrival, Marti is attacked in her home. She's found shaken and beaten, and her neighbors who immediately call the police. She never saw the face of her attacker, and so there is little to go on as detectives open an investigation.

How far would you go to survive a game you don’t remember playing? Locked in a psychiatric facility after surviving a brutal trauma she won’t speak about, a woman is forced to confront her past through a series of journal entries written under sedation. The staff call it therapy. She calls it a trap. With her memories splintered and her body still healing from wounds she inflicted on herself — or so they say — she begins to piece together a chilling truth that refuses to stay buried. Each entry pulls her deeper into a web of whispers, missing time, and a man who may still be ...

Warning, this story contains graphic scenes of violence, sexual assault and disturbing themes. It is not suitable for everyone. You got Lucy's story in "Please, Pick Me" now our tale continues as we follow Olivia in a gripping tale of betrayal and revenge. It's been 2 years since Olivia's father was tragically killed, while dealing with the aftermath of his death suspicions arise, leading her to confront Lucy, whom she believes is responsible. As the past secrets and long-buried truths come to light, Olivia is torn between seeking justice and facing the unsettling reality of her shattered ...

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 ...

"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 ...

Where the Shadows Feed: Short Tales of Horror - Volume I Are you brave enough to confront the darkness that lurks within? Joe Ippolito invites you on a chilling descent into the macabre with Where the Shadows Feed, a collection of short horror stories that will haunt your dreams. More than just jump scares, these tales delve into the psychological landscapes of fear, exploring the lingering echoes of trauma, the corrosive power of guilt, and the terrifying realization that we are not always in control of our own destinies. From the depths of the Amazonian jungle, where a research expedition...

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 ...

You don't chase the spiral. You survive it long enough, and it starts chasing something inside you. Detective Addison Carrow is used to blood. She's cataloged it, crawled through it, bathed in the aftermath of its patterns. But the man who taught her the language of violence—the one who stitched murder into shape like poetry—is gone. Vale has vanished. Or dissolved. Or maybe he was never real to begin with. Except the bodies haven’t stopped. Now they’re quieter. Meaner. Someone is killing with intention, with ritual, with a fluency that only one person should possess. Addison knows ...

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.

She only wanted to make people feel better- and a little bit of money. Then the voices told her what to say. Marilyn is a Long Island grandmother in her fifties trying to quit her job and make ends meet while caring for her autistic grandson. She starts a YouTube channel where she reads daily Virgo horoscopes — funny, down-to-earth, and wildly relatable. She never really believed in astrology. But others do. Her channel goes viral. She starts making money. And then the dreams begin. Now Marilyn wakes with lines already written. She hears faint music. She says things she doesn’t remember...

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 ...

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 ...

Five years ago Susannah Harper's son, Joel, went missing without trace. Bereft of her son and then of her husband, Susannah has rebuilt her life around helping others. But then, on the last night of Hull Fair, a fortune-teller makes an eerie prediction. She tells her that this Christmas Eve, Joel will finally come back to her. As her carefully constructed life begins to unravel, Susannah is forced to confront the buried truths of her family's past.

What’s in THE AKASHIC RECORDS, you might ask: An indefatigable bestselling author who’s suffering from writer’s block, the sort that could very well cost him his soul, A story of a man who finds what he’s looking for down a very dark dirt road, A ten year old Mexican boy with the miraculous power of healing, which places a Myrtle Beach hospital under siege, and forever changing the life of a doctor searching for answers, A Chicago born serial murderer, turned escapee, who won’t let anything stand in the way of him continuing his sadistic hobby while enjoying his newfound freedom, ...

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.

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.

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 ...