Psychological Horror Thriller

Unzählige Frauen verschwinden seit Jahrzehnten entlang des Highway of Tears. Viele von ihnen wurden getötet, die Dunkelziffer laut Amnesty International allerdings ist viel höher. Bisher deuten die Ermittlungen darauf hin, dass es sich nicht um einen einzigen Serienkiller handeln kann, da die Zeitspanne zu groß ist. Als ein fünfzehnjähriges Mädchen spurlos verschwindet, nimmt sich FBI-Agent Howard Caspar dem Fall an. Die Ereignisse, denen er auf der Spur ist, sind unfassbar und stellen seine Wertvorstellung auf den Kopf.

Petty criminal Ben Silensky is determined to get his girlfriend Carlita and son Kyle free of the quarantined city they live in, enough so to risk a foolhardy crime and then to team up with Carlita's equally desperate cop cousin Nando. Once they're out, Nando is certain they'll find a place in the open prison where his uncle works, unbeknownst to him already become a survivalist colony named Funland under the management of entrepreneurial convict Plan John. In Funland itself, guard Doyle Johnson is shocked when his ex-wife abandons his son Austin into his care.

Clayton Barbour, the narrator, is a protected bourgeois son just weak enough to allow himself to be overwhelmed by a sly, dissembling force of evil, just strong enough to be constantly tormented by his weakness. Invited to a séance by a casual acquaintance, Moore, who sees in him a psychic force, he becomes the inadvertent victim of Moore's wife's contact with a channeled malignant force.

There is more going on at Hanging Hill Lane than simple mass killings. Daphne Locke, eighteen and alone, is back in her old childhood house as a sequence of brutal killings moves closer. Powerless policemen break down and cry, tortured by the most horrific crimes they have ever seen. Murders are not the only darkness on the street. Creepy neighbours act impossibly. Dogged Jehovah’s Witnesses prophesy and stalk. Daphne wonders if she’s going mad, or if there truly is something real and insidious at play. Perhaps the fresh grief of her mother’s death is testing her sanity.

In 1986, thirteen-year-old Jeb Kleber vanished during his small town’s Fourth of July fireworks. His mysterious disappearance left his first love, Sammy Blake, grieving for years. Flash forward to present day. A now middle-aged Sam Blake has a comfortable and predictable life with his husband Marc in Chicago. All that changes when a stranger arrives at Sam’s door, claiming to be the missing Jeb Kleber.

Jo drove up the driveway, gravel crunching beneath the tires, looking up at the towering witches cap of her new home. The manor, her escape from tragedy, but not for long. An uneasy feeling lingers, and darkness descends. She visits a historical society to find out more, and learns more than the registry knew, when the house begins to reveal it on its own.

Perfect for fans of Carmen Maria Machado and Kelly Link, Jo Paquette’s Stories I Told My Dead Lover contains eight searing tales of psychological horror that probe the darkest and most deeply buried parts of the human psyche. A child is forced to grow up too soon. A woman trusts her doctor too much. An abandoned woman isn’t as alone as she thinks. An idyllic holiday masks an unspeakable act of violence. Driven, desperate, fighting for the power to choose their own fate, Paquette’s characters dare to push back at the walls that hold them in.

Jackson is setting in a hospital treatment room. His life is comprised of hopeless memories and whispers full of shadows, until death comes to visit. His wife has been pushed to her limit trying to understand what is wrong with her husband. This story is based on some truth about personality disorders, personal experience, attempted suicide, and dysfunctional demons living within Jackson Stafford.

Her husband is in a coma. And she doesn’t remember the crash, the moments leading up to it, or what happened that sent them into the water. Struggling with the painful loss of her children and grappling with her husband’s comatose state, she tries to figure out her new normal.

Quando o filho de cinco anos de Juliette e Richard morre de repente após cometer uma série de atos inexplicáveis de violência—instigado, segundo ele, por uma voz misteriosa—o mundo dos dois desmorona. Seis meses depois, Juliette se recusa a sair de casa e passa os dias fazendo gravações no quarto do filho, esperando conseguir provas de que ele continua lá. Enquanto isso, Richard tenta ao máximo não pensar no menino e volta a atenção para o terreno do outro lado da rua, o qual escava pacientemente, em busca de fragmentos de um carvalho lendário.

At a top secret research laboratory in Nevada, DARPA's most advanced artificial intelligence can read your darkest secrets and hidden intentions right off your face. The technology's manipulative inventor, however, fears no future big brother surveillance state. He built it for his own secret reasons - and now there is no untruth he won't tell, no subterfuge he won't pull, to help his estranged young daughter.

What if surging gun violence, racial tension and distrust of law enforcement was by design? What if the rage and disenchantment of working class Americans was stoked by politicians? What if neighbors were urged to despise neighbors because of their differences? When a national house divided is scripted and staged, the looming future begins to look like an unspeakable past.

Anna’s project is due today, but one more day to work on it would really help. At least, until she notices shadows flickering. Anna begins the day again in class. Through shadows shifting to become something else, she becomes trapped in a haunted house while searching for one of her friends. In another reality, she stays at a hotel with her friends during a storm as a nightmare unfolds. Join Anna for a scary tale of adventure through multiple realities!

The Berry House is a story about a 12-year-old boy named Bobby Berry. He is a straight-A student with big dreams and aspirations to become somebody. His whole life is turned upside down when he goes on an unexpected ride...on the wild side with his older brother. After waking up from a coma, Bobby has no memory of the events that landed him in the hospital, handcuffed to a bed. He wakes up only to find out that he has been charged with accessory to murder. When Bobby goes to court, the judge orders him to do two months in a regional juvenile detention center.

Being brought back from the brink of death was Marissa Thomas’ childhood story. She was sure she would die before they figured out what was causing her cycle of sickness. As Marissa got older, she discovered the cure herself. She would be sick no more! And she would no longer be victimized by the one person she should’ve been able to trust the most. As a healthy adult, Marissa felt a calling to help others in need. She became the finest head nurse one small-town hospital had ever seen. She was hailed as a hero, saving little lives who were also on the brink of death. Or were they?

Bist du bereit, dich selbst aufzugeben, damit andere überleben? Dann lass uns spielen. Wir werden sehen, wie weit du gehst. FBI-Agent Howard Caspar steht unter hohem Druck. Seine Ex-Partnerin ist mit ihrer kleinen Tochter Marcy spurlos verschwunden. Noch bevor die Ermittlungen aufgenommen werden können, findet Howard einen Briefumschlag mit einem Handy. Es beginnt ein Spiel um Leben und Tod, das perfider nicht inszeniert sein kann.

Since she was young, Amy has suffered from Alice in Wonderland Syndrome - it warps her perception of reality and time, causing her to see things that aren’t really there. For Amy, however, AIWS also lets her peer into the world between the living and the dead - the In Between. And the In Between has plagued her with horrifying visions for decades, especially the vision of a lost little girl - and the nebulous, shadowy Dark Man.

"Wovon träumst du?", fragt er zwei junge Frauen, bevor sie qualvoll sterben müssen. Fünf Kinder verbindet ein grausames Geheimnis. Mehr als dreißig Jahre später treffen sie sich wieder und der Schmerz von damals flammt erneut auf. FBI-Agent Howard Caspar wird zu einem Tatort gerufen, an dem für ihn sehr persönliche Gegenstände hinterlassen wurden. Was hat es damit auf sich? Hinterlässt ihm jemand eine Nachricht?

"Ich habe sie getötet. Ich habe meine Schwester getötet. Der, nach dem Sie suchen, bin ich." Ein kleiner Junge, nur in Unterwäsche mitten auf einer verlassenen Landstraße. Welches Geheimnis trägt er mit sich herum? Von wem spricht er, wenn er sagt, er habe jemanden getötet? Das FBI beschäftigt sich mit der größten Suche nach vermissten Kindern, die Amerika je erlebt hat. Ein irrer Psychopath entführt und tötet Zwillinge. Jedoch immer nur einen von ihnen, der jeweils andere überlebt schwer traumatisiert.

Answering an ad for a job as live-in tutor to a teenage boy, Christopher Beal arrives at the big, old house deep in the woods with no idea what he’s getting into. His pupil is Lawrence Lundy, an odd boy who practices strange rituals by moonlight and is haunted – perhaps literally – by the spirit of his dead father. For mysterious reasons, his mother, Juliet, keeps him at home, isolated from the world. During the suffocating heat of a long summer, Christopher finds himself entangled in the madness of this strange household and must uncover a deadly secret before it’s too late...