Psychological Horror Thriller

Seine Puppen wirken lebensecht. Die Frauen, die er getötet hat, standen ihm Modell. Doch das genügt nicht. Der neue Thriller von Bestsellerautor Andrew Holland. Washington D.C. wird von einer brutalen Mordserie erschüttert. Drei unschuldige Frauen hat der kaltblütige Serienmörder bereits bestialisch ermordet. Man nennt ihn den "Doll-Killer", da er die Leichen wie Puppen herrichtet, um sie anschließend der Öffentlichkeit zu präsentieren. Rothaarig und jung müssen sie sein. Die Brustimplantate aus Silikon entfernt er sorgfältig.

TRYPOPHOBIA: An irrational fear of clusters of tiny holes that haunts an estimated 9.1 percent of Americans. For young Ben Brennan, these terrifying images invade his childhood, tormenting his every waking moment. Ben's father, Brian, a single parent struggling to understand his son's escalating terror, embarks on a desperate search for answers.

Blood-churning, mind-bending, and an intense thriller at its core! This collection of suspenseful short stories will satisfy your deepest craving for fear. Trapped in a concrete labyrinth! Stalked by a malevolent book character! A dark, eerie basement, possessing the very essence of malice! An ambitious reporter whose questions lead to an unbelievable fate! Hunted and preyed upon by an unstoppable demonic foe! Waking in an infinite underground tunnel, a nightmare that never ends! This is just a snapshot of the horrors that are about to unfold.

Ten strangers, recruited by an edgy new reality show and marooned on an abandoned island overrun by wildlife. One dies in a horrible accident. Nine realize they are all past survivors, alive only because they've beaten incredible odds once before. One by one, their hidden secrets are revealed. Eight discover they are trapped. Caught in a game so deadly that the most terrifying experiences of their lives were only its qualifying round, they must now face the greatest danger on the island... each other.

Dante's Inferno, his depiction of hell, was written while Europe was suffering through war, famine, the corruption of the Church, and the evils of the pogrom - the brutal massacre of countless Jews. Shortly after Dante's passing, the black plague killed off half the world's population, an end-of-days-like event that birthed a legend depicted in paintings and dance: the Grim Reaper. What few people know is that Dante's poem draws inspiration from the Zohar, an ancient text that warns that the true end of days will be brought on by the corruption of man.

When Walter Hartright encounters the "solitary figure of a woman, dressed from head to foot in white garments" on a lonely road, he is haunted by her. He falls in love with his employer's niece, Laura, because she resembles the mysterious woman. Laura, however, is betrothed to the evil Sir Percival, who wishes to marry her for her money. The woman in white, it turns out, is Anne Catherick, who was confined in an asylum by the evil Sir Percival because she knew a devastating secret about him.

Lisa dreamed of being a model. Between the reality of her crappy diner job and the rejection of her parents, her early 20s weren’t going the way she had envisioned. It was time she took her life back. But dark clouds were on the horizon. Upon meeting a mysterious young millionaire who would help her achieve her dreams, Lisa would soon discover that love and fame weren’t the only consequences of tangoing in the underground. This story plunges into a dark world that is hidden behind fame and fortune.

Josephine is obsessed. Or possessed—by unrequited love for a younger man who doesn't promise anything, but who gives her a taste of intimacy that puts her on the brink of losing her mind. Oscillating between her elusive lover and her older former partner, stuck in the hell that is working in a cubicle, and obliged to tend to her destructive, senile mother, Josephine is trapped. After a work assignment promises to deliver distraction, Josephine makes a decision to visit a former quarantine island in the Adriatic Sea, where she meets an enigmatic, beautiful man with a haunting story.

After losing her young son in a tragic accident, Eve struggles to protect the one child she has left, a teenage daughter who just might be pure evil. The dark side of magic is where the Ragman dwells. Nobody knows that better than Eve. Desperate for a child, she called on that cunning conjurer eighteen years ago. Her daughter, Abbey, was the result.

Tragedy strikes Lone Oak in the form of a dead girl, and it’s just the beginning.

The house at Herron Pond is no stranger to tragedy. Accidental death. A devastating fire. Suicide. Are the reports of supernatural activity the persistent gossip of visitors and staff? Or are the chilling tales true?

Er liebt Glas, weil es so wandelbar ist. Wunderschön und doch kann es hässlich sein. In einer Wunde zum Beispiel. In Havannas Hitze wird ein schwer verletztes Mädchen an einem touristisch sehr beliebten Ort aufgefunden. In ihrem Körper stecken Glasscherben, aus ihren Schulterblättern ragen gläserne Flügel. So wirkt sie wie ein gefallener Engel. Kurz darauf stirbt sie einen qualvollen Tod vor den Augen ihres Vaters. Er ist Mitarbeiter der amerikanischen Botschaft auf Kuba. Nur wenige Tage später verschwindet eine weitere Diplomatentochter.

"Verschwinde von dieser Insel, Mädchen, solange du es noch kannst!". Im Nachlass ihres Vaters entdeckt Hanna einen rätselhaften Schlüssel und ein vergilbtes Foto vom Borkumer Wattenmeer, in dem vor siebzehn Jahren ihre Mutter ertrank. Auf der Rückseite stehen die Buchstaben KLLT – mit Blut geschrieben. In der Überzeugung, dass es sich um eine verschlüsselte Botschaft handelt, reist Hanna auf die ostfriesische Insel und stößt auf ein dunkles Geheimnis, das mit ihrer Kindheit verwoben ist.

Ein junger Krankenpfleger wird entsetzlich entstellt in seiner Wohnung aufgefunden. Der Täter hat ihm die Augen ausgehöhlt, die Zunge abgeschnitten und die Ohren durchbohrt. Bei der Leiche wird ein Teil einer alten Milchtüte gefunden, auf der die Vermisstenanzeige eines vierjährigen Mädchens abgebildet ist. Mit der Hand wurde dort eine Botschaft hinterlassen: "Happy Independence Day 1995. Washington Park. Erinnerst du dich, Howard."

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.

Amos Lee has never played well with others. He prefers to live his life alone. When the mother he’s never known dies and leaves him a remote trailer house on a few country acres, he jumps at the chance to live life as a hermit. But there seems to be more to this property than he bargained for. Memories he thought were gone return, bringing feelings he didn’t know he had. A couple of people from the area seem way too interested in him. He’s hearing and seeing things that can’t be real. What has gotten into him? Can he survive it?

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.

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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.