Psychological Horror

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!

It's summer on the Jersey Shore. Children play on the beach. Husbands are off working in the city. And the surf echoes in the night. Here, in this perfect place, a serial killer has no worries in the world - except choosing the next victim. Cam Hastings has come to Long Beach Island with her teenage daughter and the hope that maybe she can save her failed marriage. Cam has never stopped loving her husband, Mike, nor has she been able to outrun her flaws and demons - a vanished mother, a lost sister, and the ugly visions she has of missing children.

When Sloane Ellery starts receiving chilling emails from her sister’s deactivated account—two years after Delilah’s death—she thinks it’s a cruel hoax. But as each message reveals secrets only Delilah could know, Sloane is pulled into a web of digital conspiracies, haunted memories, and an underground network hellbent on resurrecting the past. To uncover the truth, she must confront the darkest corners of her grief—and the possibility that death is just another doorway. Fans of twisty, tech-infused psychological thrillers will devour this heart-racing tale where sisterhood meets...

I Shouldn’t Have Survived A Modern Horror Anthology They knocked. I answered. They watched. I waved. They waited… and I stayed. Ten chilling survivor stories. Ten doors you should never open. In this razor-sharp anthology of modern horror, victims recount the unexplainable—and barely escape. Each story is told in haunting first-person detail, plunging you into a world where terror hides in the ordinary: an unlocked apartment, a mirror that fogs from the wrong side, a knock that keeps perfect time, or a window that shouldn’t be there. From forgotten rooms to cursed signals, parasitic...

A collection of four critically acclaimed, gripping short novels that explore the darkness lurking within ordinary lives. 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 the next twenty-four hours, Brian will face a horrifying truth about his father—and himself. Rewind A man wakes in a decaying apartment, hooked to a mysterious machine, a dead body in the next room—...

When college student Shirley Fitzpatrick loses her parents in a devastating plane crash, her world is shattered. Overwhelmed by grief, she spirals into a deep depression that leads to her institutionalization. Within the sterile walls of the psychiatric facility, Shirley begins what she hopes will be a journey toward healing. But as the days turn into weeks, she starts to notice strange inconsistencies in her treatment, cryptic behavior from the staff, and whispers of experiments conducted in the shadows. As her mental and emotional state are pushed to the brink, Shirley’s therapy ...

The final game is here...A decade has passed. The Lambert family is thriving...Or so they wish. Nothing could be further from the truth...Two fledgling killers who happen to idolize the infamous serial killers Arty and Jim Fannelli have been paying attention - and these two killers are eager to show the Lamberts just how much they truly admire their idols...with the help of Arty and Jim themselves?

As Above, So Below: Alice’s Demons Are Coming for Us. Alice Persephone had it all. A powerful career. Wealth. Influence. Now, she’s in prison for an unspeakable crime. Desperate for a reduced sentence—Alice agrees to a radical experiment at Johns Hopkins University. A fusion of modern science and ancient ritual, the procedure promises breakthroughs in human consciousness. But something goes wrong. Horribly wrong. Now, Alice is trapped in a waking nightmare, hunted by the demons of her past—both real and imagined. As the darkness spreads, she must fight to escape before it consumes ...

Dr. Riley North finds comfort in the quantifiable. Her world is one of sterile labs and cold, hard data, a fortress of logic she built to escape the chaotic legacy of her parents—two cryptozoologists who vanished in the Oregon wilderness twenty years ago. She believes that chapter of her life is sealed. But a phone call about an abandoned storage unit changes everything. Inside the dusty locker, Riley discovers her parents weren't just chasing myths. They were methodical scientists on the verge of a world-shattering discovery. Their worn journals, detailed maps, and a final, chilling ...

A provocative collection of intriguing, sexy, disturbing and original stories, wide-ranging in scope and theme. Cosmic countdown to oblivion. Quirky sexual hang-ups. Disturbed, obsessive characters unable to cope with life, and living in worlds of their own. Romantic, heart-breaking tales. Stories of madness and murder. Introspective, unashamed dissection of the human mind and spirit. More than enough variety to engage you, excite you, scare you, intrigue you, torment you…

The worst thing to ever happen on Hemlock Circle occurred in Ethan Marsh’s backyard. One July night, ten-year-old Ethan and his best friend and neighbor, Billy, fell asleep in a tent set up on a manicured lawn in a quiet, quaint New Jersey cul-de-sac. In the morning, Ethan woke up alone. During the night, someone had sliced the tent open with a knife and taken Billy. He was never seen again. Thirty years later, Ethan has reluctantly returned to his childhood home. Plagued by bad dreams and insomnia, he begins to notice strange things happening in the middle of the night.

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-...

After years of avoiding each other, Daisy Darker’s entire family is assembling for Nana’s 80th birthday party in Nana’s crumbling gothic house on a tiny tidal island. Finally back together one last time, when the tide comes in, they will be cut off from the rest of the world for eight hours. The family arrives, each of them harboring secrets. Then at the stroke of midnight, as a storm rages, Nana is found dead. And an hour later, the next family member follows…

Mary is a quiet middle-aged woman doing her best to blend into the background. Unremarkable. Invisible. Unknown even to herself. But lately, things have been changing inside Mary. Along with the hot flashes and body aches, she can’t look in a mirror without passing out, and the voices in her head have been urging her to do unspeakable things. Fired from her job in New York, she moves back to her hometown hoping to reconnect with her past and inner self. What she finds instead are visions of terrifying mutilated specters that come with increasing regularity.

ONLY SHE KNOWS THE TERRIBLE SECRET OF HIS PAST. Blackmail, Murder, Love, Hate. There is nowhere left to hide when revenge comes calling. One moment of madness in his youth has caught up with Matt Cunningham. The only person who can save the successful business executive is his alcoholic ex-lover Roni Paterson. But how do you find the woman who has disappeared for thirty years and what if she becomes part of the unfolding nightmare? A dark thriller to keep you reading through the night. Gripping story with true life characters and great humour. Could not put it down once I started. I can't ...

Nestled in the quiet town of Brookhaven, Eleanor Marsh’s life as a librarian has always been peaceful, predictable, and safe. She finds comfort in the rows of books that surround her, their well-worn pages carrying stories of adventure, mystery, and hope. But when an unmarked book appears in the library’s collection, Eleanor’s ordered world begins to unravel. The book is unlike any other. Its leather cover is cracked with age, its spine unmarked, and its pages disturbingly blank—at first. Then, names begin to appear. Each name belongs to someone in Brookhaven, and beneath each one ...

Gerald and Jessie Burlingame have gone to their summer home on a warm weekday in October for a romantic getaway. After being handcuffed to her bedposts, Jessie tires of her husband's games, but when Gerald refuses to stop, the evening ends with deadly consequences. Still handcuffed, Jessie is trapped and alone. Over the next 28 hours, in the lakeside house that has become a prison, Jessie will come face to face with all the things she has ever feared.

A little girl and her mother haunted by mental illness become entangled in the paranoia of the early 1990s Satanic Panic.

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 ...

Once an aristocrat in the heady days of pre-revolutionary France, now Lestat is a rockstar in the demonic, shimmering 1980s. He rushes through the centuries in search of others like him, seeking answers to the mystery of his terrifying exsitence. His story, the second volume in Anne Rice's best-selling Vampire Chronicles, is mesmerizing, passionate, and thrilling.