Psychological Thriller Supernatural

Joy thinks she's falling in love with FBI Agent Richard Fields—but is the man who makes her mind soar and her heart swoon really who he says he is? Those who challenge the Lords of the Universe—a secret society of new-age fanatics—have a habit of winding up dead from unnaturally 'natural causes.' While witnesses in the case against the LOTU drop like wilted rose petals, FBI expert Richard Fields has been investigating one suspect in particular, Dr. Joy Clayton. The newly exonerated widow of one of the cult's fanatical leaders, Joy is beautiful, brilliant, and an angel on earth—and ...

THE DAUGHTER'S FRIEND By Roberta Huckle Do you believe in ghosts? Or do you trust what you see? When a mother’s young daughter begins speaking to an unseen presence named Vatavia, it’s easy to dismiss as imagination. But as the "friend" becomes more real—and more disturbing—the mother is drawn into a spiral of fear, doubt, and disbelief. Is her daughter playing a game? Is something more sinister at work? Or is the fragile veil between reality and something else beginning to tear? What happens when you stop believing it’s just in your head? The Daughter’s Friend is a gripping ...

Introduction An Antique Advent Calendar. A Town’s Forgotten Sins. A Man Racing Against Time. When Alex Harper stumbles upon an antique advent calendar at a dusty estate sale, it feels like a small win in a string of ordinary days. Crafted with intricate detail and an eerie charm, the calendar seems like the perfect holiday decoration. But the moment Alex brings it home, the countdown to Christmas becomes something far more sinister. Each night, a new door opens on its own, revealing a chilling scene from the town’s forgotten past - tragedies long buried in the snow of time. Fires, ...

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 ...

Is it a hoax, or is it something unspeakably real? In this short story about evil games and spiraling secrets, whatever bargain you strike, there’s a price to be paid. Mason Brandt dropped out of seminary and found a job at a spiritual center offering guidance to troubled teens. Mason was one himself years ago - a suspect in a young girl’s disappearance. When a female student is found murdered, Mason is dogged by suspicion and flees. He hopes Merle House will offer him sanctuary once again.

Matthew, Claire, Ian, and Mason haven’t set foot on the Merle family property since the summer they were sixteen. They tried for years to put their history behind them, to forget the mystery of the girl who vanished so long ago. But a powerful force from their past is still at play. This time, there’s no hiding from it.

Thirty-year-old George Davies can't bring himself to hold his newborn son. After months of accepting his lame excuses and strange behavior, his wife demands that he see a therapist, and George, desperate to save his unraveling marriage and redeem himself as a father and husband, reluctantly agrees.

Darkness has a way of creeping up when Ian is with Priss. Even when they were kids, playing in the woods of their small Upstate New York town, he could feel it. Still, Priss was his best friend, his salvation from the bullies who called him "loser" and "fatboy" - and from his family's deadly secrets.

"Legacy of Molly: A Post-Apocalyptic Survival Thriller" They thought the shelter would keep them safe. They were wrong. Molly Burk has always been different—a young woman with extraordinary abilities that she doesn't fully understand and can't completely control. In a world already pushed to its breaking point, her unique powers could be humanity's greatest hope... or its ultimate destruction. When a mysterious encounter thrusts her into a mission beyond anything she could have imagined, Molly must confront the true nature of her abilities and the devastating consequences of her choices. ...

From Juan Carlos Boíza López, acclaimed author of The Book of Toth, Sindone, and Taste of Earth, comes The Book of Reflections—a unique anthology featuring over thirty short stories that span thriller, drama, science fiction, and horror. But beyond genres, all these stories share a common goal: to use fantasy and fiction as a mirror—one that provokes, stirs emotions, and inspires reflection on the world we inhabit. Dare to step through the looking glass and immerse yourself in unsettling tales such as: An agoraphobic man trapped in a world that seems to have forgotten him. A future ...

Time slips. Doomsday scenarios. Killer butterflies. C. J. Tudor's novels are widely acclaimed for their dark, twisty suspense plots, but with A Sliver of Darkness, she pulls us even further into her dizzying imagination. Riveting, macabre, and explosively original, A Sliver of Darkness is C. J. Tudor at her most wicked and uninhibited.

Twelve-year-old Leslie Adams is found covered in blood, standing over the lifeless body of a boy named Tommy. Everyone said she did it—after all, she was the only one there when he died. The most terrifying part? Leslie doesn’t remember a thing. Years later, she still can’t escape the shadow of that day. Now in college, Leslie is desperate for a fresh start... until the blackouts return. Night after night, she wakes from these fugue states with fresh bruises and unexplained cuts on her skin. Doctors insist she’s self-harming—coping with repressed trauma. But deep down, Leslie ...

If death is knocking at your door, you have no choice but to accept it. But if evil is knocking at your door, you have no choice but to kill it. It's been decades since Rebecca Underhill and her late twin sister, Molly, were abducted by a madman in the deep woods behind their farmhouse. It's also been many years since that madman was released from prison and went after Rebecca a second time. It's also been years since a copycat killer called The Skinner tried to murder Rebecca and her young son. Now sixty and alone, Rebecca is battling cancer. But soon she will encounter a third monster who...

Two families have come to the California mountains expecting a fun weekend camping trip. What they will find instead is terror in the form of a violent psychopath and his mother, a powerful witch.

Ever since high school, somebody’s been playing the echo game on Will Williams. A look-alike with the same tattoos and the same name has been following him. Starting by implicating Will in petty crimes, and escalating to offenses with serious prison terms, he’s undermined every attempt Will has made to get his life on track. Now, drifting from city to city, Will’s doing everything in his power to outrun his shadow.

After being sent to the beachfront cottage on Opal Island to investigate reports of dangerous occult activity, Riley Crane wakes up with a gun under her pillow, covered in blood, and with no memory of the past three weeks. Riley is alone and without backup, feeling her way through a deadly game of blindman's buff, where no one around her is quite who or what they seem. A bizarre murder is only the first jarring reminder of how high the stakes really are.

WARNING: The children of Oakhaven are not dreaming. They are rehearsing. Jack Tierney is a ghost haunting his own life, shattered by his wife’s murder two years prior. He seeks refuge in the suffocating silence of decaying Oakhaven. But the silence is about to scream. It starts with Alex, a neighborhood boy plagued by nightmares of "Mr. Murk," a whispering entity that tells terrible secrets. Then the bodies start falling—staged accidents, broken dolls left behind. Jack, a former detective, sees the pattern the police refuse to acknowledge. He sees the symbol—an eye stitched shut—...

The Templeton family's peaceful lives are plunged into chaos when their young daughter, Ivy, begins to be stalked by a strange man who believes their daughter is the reincarnation of his daughter, Audrey Rose, who died in a fiery car crash. Frank De Felitta's Audrey Rose (1975) was one of the best-selling horror novels of the decade, selling over 3.5 million copies, and it remains a chilling classic of modern horror.

The charm of spending the Christmas holidays in South Wales, with its crumbling castles and ancient myths, seems the perfect distraction from the nightmares that have plagued literary agent Lyn Ravenshaw since the loss of her baby five years ago. Instead she meets an emotionally fragile young widow who's convinced that Lyn's recurring dreams have drawn her to Castle Farm for an important purpose - and she's running out of time.

The house is haunted. While house hunting with her family, a reclusive ghostwriter unwittingly stumbles headfirst into a paranormal murder mystery where she alone can find the killer. An unending feeling of dread clings to her, letting her know she's being watched every second of every day from both sides of the grave. Her husband busies himself with his new job, and her only child becomes increasingly distant. Navigating family life was difficult before, but now she's got visions and clues to contend with. A spirit trapped in her home, her family being stalked; she must find the killer or ...