Psychological Horror Thriller

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.

Lauren Stafford, a traumatized divorcee, decides to rent a cottage on the edge of a beautiful ancestral estate in the Welsh Marches. But from the very first day of arrival she instinctively knows there's something terribly wrong here—something malevolent and ancient—a feeling the whole place is trapped in a time warp. She really ought to leave. But the pull of the lake is too strong, its dark magic so powerful it crosses over into dreams . . . turning them into nightmares. What lies beneath its still black surface? And why can't Lauren drag herself away? Why her? And why now?

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.

Es gibt zwei Mechanismen, die mit dem Überlebensinstinkt einhergehen: Kampf oder Flucht. Der vierte Howard-Caspar-Fall jetzt zum Einführungspreis sichern. Als Howard nackt und orientierungslos in einer Kiste erwacht, scheint sein Leben beendet. Doch er ist nicht bereit aufzugeben und wird sich seinem Erzfeind stellen. Es kommt zu einem tödlichen Duell, aus dem nur einer lebend herausgehen kann. Wird Howard den Kampf endlich gewinnen oder diesmal das Opfer sein?

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.

Ein faszinierender Horrortrip in die deutsche Provinz. Amalie, Joseph, Gero und Bodo, Freunde seit Kindheitstagen, haben sich zu einer sommerlichen Kanutour verabredet. Kaum sind sie an ihrem Ausflugsziel angekommen, verdichten sich die Anzeichen, dass sie hier nicht willkommen sind. Erst unmerklich, dann immer offensichtlicher schlägt ihnen die Feindseligkeit der Einheimischen entgegen, die alles Fremde aus Prinzip hassen und ihre eigenen ungeschriebenen Gesetze haben. Ab einem gewissen Punkt gibt es für sie kein Zurück mehr. Jeder Schritt weiter ist einer auf den Abgrund zu.

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...

Er kennt deine tiefsten Kindheitsängste. Ein rätselhafter Patient zieht den jungen Psychiater Parker H. in seinen Bann. Seit dem sechsten Lebensjahr wird der mittlerweile 30-jährige Mann, den alle nur "Joe" nennen, in der düsteren Nervenheilanstalt in Neuengland verwahrt. Er gilt als nicht therapierbar. Jeder, der mit ihm spricht, verliert den Verstand oder begeht Selbstmord. Allen Warnungen zum Trotz beschließt der ehrgeizige Parker, "Joe" in seiner Zelle zu besuchen.

Prof. Jeffrey Cole and his three young assistants ventured deep into the dark backwoods Appalachian mountains of Northern Georgia to study the effects of a mad, itinerant preacher, Father Divine, and his fanatical religious cult on the mountain people there. It had been 100 years since the crazed preacher and his true believers terrorized and murdered the people on Salvation Mountain, before they disappeared into the night. But all of that religious madness was long in the past. Wasn't it?