Psychological Horror

This Easter, six-year-old Mary Chan is going to have an old fashioned Easter Egg hunt with her Aunt Gerry...oh, the horror! You see, Aunt Gerry is a lonely spinster who lives all by herself on an enormous farm in downstate Illinois. Not to mention that she keeps quite a collection of steamer trunks in her dark, dusty attic. Timothy Kirby's short story, taken from his book, THE SIREN OF SINGAPORE (2010), is one that won't soon be forgotten. So fasten your Easter bonnets,it's going to be a bumpy night!

Harran Blackwood was a Warrior-Priest of ruthless virtue. Now he's a man with a scorched reputation, prowling the back alleys of Greywater Fastness, content to fight the petty wars of racketeers for survival. But when a desperate message arrives from an old friend, Blackwood is forced to confront a past he thought long buried. Summoned to the isolated village of Wald, Blackwood sets off on a perilous trek to ensure the sins of his former life remain forgotten.

"Perhaps Reyes’ best writing yet, this is a fantastic showcasing of infatuation, toxic masculinity, and a torturous upbringing coalescing into all out obsession. If Nathan can’t have Christine, no one can." C.J. Daley, Author of BestGhost When Nathan meets Christine Romero, he’s instantly drawn to her beauty, confidence, and playful charm. She flirts. She smiles. She lets him in—just enough to keep him hooked. But when Nathan tries to pursue something real, Christine pulls away, insisting she’s uninterested. For most people, that would be the end. But Nathan isn’t like most ...

Survivors of an apocalypse take refuge in a mountain fortress and face enemies both living and undead in the first three books of this horror series.

“A long time ago, there was a priest, a gun, and a vengeance that placed me here.” Juliette, Patient of Emerson Rose Asylum 1978. Juliette must endure a living hell when her inner demons come alive as actual demons named Spike and Scorch. PRAY TELL is Letter #3 excerpt from LETTERS FROM THE LOONEY BIN... In the late 1970s the Emerson Rose Asylum became completely abandoned - all the patients, doctors, staff, vanished and were never seen again. The events circling this mass exodus have been one of the most baffling disappearances in history. Until now. www.ThatcherCNalley.com

While on a run, Ariel finds herself chased by a truck and the demons of her past. Will she conquer her fears or succumb to the darkness of the road ahead...

Victoria McQueen has an uncanny knack for finding things: a misplaced bracelet, a missing photograph, answers to unanswerable questions. When she rides her bicycle over the rickety old covered bridge in the woods near her house, she always emerges in the places she needs to be. Vic doesn't tell anyone about her unusual ability, because she knows no one will believe her. She has trouble understanding it herself.

The most beautiful homes hide the ugliest secrets. When real estate agent Katie returns to the abandoned Hehl Mansion to prepare it for sale, she discovers her childhood friend's family never actually left during the pandemic—and neither will she. As Katie and later a renovation crew find themselves trapped inside the decaying mansion, they face a horrifying truth: someone—or something—lurks within its walls, wearing a cracked porcelain mask and turning trespassers into macabre art. With each gruesome death, the survivors realize that Mimi Hehl has created her own twisted family ...

Welcome to SEAGULL ISLAND, up until now, a private island in the middle of Lake Michigan. But they've recently opened up, and inviting 5 lucky guests to spend the weekend with them. Jackie Lutz, and her boyfriend Drew are two of the lucky winners, and they, along with three others, set sail in a rickety dinghy helmed by a weathered man who is proud of his island and wants to show it off. What could go wrong? Isolated in the middle of Lake Michigan with forty people who have eschewed society and built themselves a life here, on Seagull Island, where seagulls are both revered and put to good ...

Spiritual teacher Michael A. Singer explores the question of human identity and shows how the development of consciousness can enable us all to dwell in the present moment and achieve happiness and self-realization.

He looked like a harmless old man. He knocked on the Budd family’s door with a smile and a promise. And he walked away with their ten-year-old daughter—never to return her. The Cannibal of Wisteria is the chilling true story of Albert Fish, one of the most disturbing serial killers in American history. Behind his soft-spoken demeanor and grandfatherly appearance hid a predator driven by religious delusions, sadistic desires, and a hunger that defies comprehension. From his brutal childhood in an orphanage to his grotesque confessions of cannibalism, child murder, and self-mutilation, ...

When Helen persuades her best friend Elaine to join her on a once in a lifetime trip around the world, neither of them could have envisaged the horrors awaiting them. Charmed by a local waiter, Helen soon finds herself dragged into an underground world of illegal sex shows and torture dens. Uncomfortable with the way things are progressing, she suggests leaving, moving on to their next destination. what she is unaware of however, is that Elaine is hiding a devastating secret, a threat made to her that has the power to rip both of their lives apart. unable to escape, the horrors they witness...

In the city of Raventon, where the gothic shadows of old Europe bleed into modern spires of glass and steel, a reclusive aristocrat arrives, captivating high society with his charm—and chilling those closest to him with a haunting presence. Lord Adrien Varnham is ageless, cultured, and impossibly beautiful. But behind his mesmerizing smile lies a dark secret buried for centuries. Evelyn Ashcroft, a young scholar mourning the loss of her father, finds herself drawn to Adrien’s mystery. But as people around her begin to die in bizarre and bloodless ways, she’s forced to question ...

V.C. Andrews' thrilling new novel spins a tale of dreadful secrets and dark, forbidden passions—of the time before Flowers in the Attic began. Long before terror flowered in the attic, thin, spinsterish Olivia came to Virginia as Malcolm Foxworth's bride. At last, with her tall handsome husband, she would find the joy she had waited for, longed for. But in the gloomy mansion filled with hidden rooms and festering desires, a stain of jealous obsession begins to spread...an evil that will threaten her children, two lovely boys and one very special, beautiful girl.

Sometimes silence screams the loudest. In The Hollow Room and Other Terrors, eight chilling tales plunge readers into shadowed corridors, haunted lakes, collapsing realities, and the rooms no one should enter. Each story is a descent into psychological and supernatural dread, where the things we forget—or bury—always return. In Silent Running, a man awakens alone in a sunken submarine, his only companions the ghosts of a drowned crew—and they’ve been waiting for him. The Silver Vein leads a group of teens into a desert mine that should have remained sealed, where the dark runs ...

Shadows Among Us. Three stories. One chilling thread. A horror that feels too close to home. This is not the kind of horror that screams—it whispers. The fear in these pages doesn’t leap out; it sits with you long after you've turned the last page. If you’ve ever felt something watching you from the corner of your eye, or sensed a shift in the air at night, you’ll feel right at home in these stories. Each one is deeply grounded, terrifying not because of what jumps out, but because of how familiar it all feels. The kind of unease that’s quiet, personal, and deeply Indian in spirit...

When the lights go out and the slideshow begins, middle manager Jennifer has a disturbing vision: a headless colleague right across the boardroom table. Is it a trick of the light, or a vision of the future? She tries to brush it off and salvage the afternoon—but when her ex unexpectedly drops off her son at the office after school, suddenly her whole world takes an alarming turn.

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 ...

Brace yourself for a chilling journey into the heart of darkness in Donna Burgess's spine-tingling novella, The Ghosts of Chernobyl. Set against the eerie backdrop of the 1986 nuclear disaster, this haunting tale follows twin siblings Anton and Elena as they confront the terrifying specters of their past. When a mysterious vial promising eternal life resurfaces after 25 years, Anton must embark on a perilous odyssey back to the ghostly ruins of Pripyat. But as he navigates the twisted labyrinths of the abandoned city, he discovers that the true horror lies not in the ghosts that haunt ...

An unpopular teenage girl, whose mother is a religious fanatic, is tormented and teased to the breaking point by her more popular schoolmates. She uses her hidden telekinetic powers to inflict a terrifying revenge.