Psychological Horror

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.

This audiobook features eight enthralling, horrific, and unnerving tales that are guaranteed to make you challenge how you see the world as you know it and consider tearing it down. Each short story is a unique perspective on the common thread of morality in a larger interconnected world that will keep you guessing until the very end.

A creepy clown stares at a little boy from the woods next to his grade school. The boy's father just has to find out why. This is the terrifying story of a desperate father, a medicated beauty lotion, a secret clinical study at a big pharmaceutical company, and serious complications. When the man's nose falls off, he puts his best face on.

In the snowy Canadian wilderness, a terrifying legend springs to life, sparking a series of gruesome crimes. Government agent Sean Laporte is sent to investigate and must contend with an obsessive, resourceful foe, a hostile environment, and an elusive search for the truth. He is soon pulled between worlds of myth and madness, a present haunted by the past, and a primitive world of mystery and power.

The line between reality and illusion becomes more and more blurred as Adam Andrews is carried away into a fantasy world of his own making. In this horrific tales of self-deception and murder, Thomas Weston traces the downward spiral of a man descending into total insanity.

When seven strangers awaken to fragmented memories, their lives forever altered by unimaginable torture and haunting visions, they are thrust into a sinister game orchestrated by a demon-possessed killer. As they piece together their shattered pasts, they uncover chilling connections to one another, and a dark truth emerges—none of this is by chance. In the shadowy streets of Los Angeles, these broken souls face relentless psychological torment, supernatural horrors, and the unshakable grip of an unseen evil.

Well, you’ve found it, haven’t you? Saint Ambrose mortuary, where the dead have more to say than the living. Their whispers echoing through the hallways are begging to be heard. Curious about a local urban legend, teenagers discover the figure is horrifyingly real. A cruel CB radio prank becomes a terrifying hunt when a predator’s voice emerges from the static. A dark entity is unleashed when a teacher tests his own warning about hidden messages in rock music. Two men descend into inexplicable terror when they awaken on a barren, unnatural island.

Boston District Attorney Will Sullivan seems destined for greatness...until his daughter, Sydney, becomes seriously ill. Now, both parents resolve to do anything to save their daughter's life. But in the twilight world of Briarwood Medical Center, nothing is as it seems. Patients on the brink of death are not only surviving but thriving, while others wither away...and the recoveries all revolve around the ministerings of a mysterious counselor, who takes an unsettling interest in Joanna.

Jack Murphy thought he’d found the perfect escape for his family from a world gone horribly mad. He thought wrong. Matthew Costello’s Home begins mere minutes after the terrible sacrifice Jack made to save his family at Paterville Camp in Vacation. Barely escaping, Jack’s wife, Christie, and two children, Kate and Simon, must accept that their lives and their future have changed forever. In this intimate and human survivalist horror story, the three of them will face even greater dangers....

The year is 2032, and five-year-old Jacob is opening the biggest gift, beneath the Christmas tree, which is labeled for him: his very first semi-automatic rifle—and he couldn't be prouder. He smiles to his parents who sit close by. They don't smile back. Their minds are stuck on earlier events of what should have been a magical day: the moment they found out Jacob was set to be a brother.

Cherry Hollow has been plagued by The Darkness for more than two decades. Death, murder, infidelity, trauma, and severe mental health disorders … It all started in 1998 with the disappearance of a young boy. Or did it? Now, another body has been discovered, hidden in the depths of Beaker Ravine, a place where The Darkness has been luring its victims for years. But this body is different. It’s older. It means The Darkness was around long before anyone even knew it existed …

"Hard as nails detective novel, satisfyingly twisted story, and the writing is sharp as the devil." -- Stephen King Critically acclaimed author Saul Black returns with a heart-racing thriller in which a brutal murder forces one woman to reckon with her own past—and her future. On a hot summer...

After a woman dies, she watches over her son as he struggles with life’s challenges. When he dies, too, he comes to her for help, but she has different plans in store for him.

It had all started with the accident, and the fight that followed. Clayton Couch's life began to slowly deteriorate, practically decomposing as his body was. He was slowly rotting as he lived and breathed, and unless Clay can put an end to the curse, he risks rotting away like a dead man in a grave.

Ella Thompson, a geotechnical engineer, arrives in Wirrapara expecting dust, silence, and an abandoned mine site. What she finds is static—on the radio, in the mirrors, and behind her own reflection. Her dog, Casper, senses it first. Then the motel room shifts. The town watches. And memory itself begins to rot. As reality fractures, Ella is pulled into a spiral of echoes, teeth, and voices that don’t belong to her. The town doesn’t want to kill her. It wants to keep her. Shape her. Speak through her.

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a chilling novella written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published in 1886. The subject matter may be partly that of a shilling shocker but the whole is executed with great panache and a fine Gothic sensibility. Lawyer Gabriel Utterson leads us apace through the rain-swept streets of Victorian London in pursuit of the diminutive but thoroughly monstrous Mr. Hyde.

One of the dark, eerie tales that can only come from Stephen King, orginally a part of the #1 New York Times bestseller Everything's Eventual, "The Road Virus Heads North" tracks an author who buys a creepy paiting at a yard sale which was painted by a metal-head neighbor just before he...

A small white plane hurtles from the sky, vanishing into the wilderness. Hiker Maggie Roby watches its final descent, certain that no one could have survived. But to her shock, a fifteen-year-old girl emerges from the wreckage, wounded but miraculously, impossibly alive. Maggie approaches with trepidation; she has secrets of her own, a past she can’t escape. Saving the girl means risking her future, but she can’t just abandon her, can she?

"The Masquerade of Death": Targar Negary entombs his only surviving child in a sarcophagus, possibly thinking her to be a victim of the Black Plague that is sweeping Europe. Poor Talis must endure agonizing and seemingly-endless hours of torture within her tomb, wondering who emplaced her there and why, if it was her father, seeking some sort of punishment. With Talis' air running out, she does not believe that she can survive this entombment and find out the reason for it.

In the shadows of a sleepy town, a shy classmate's invitation leads four friends into the depths of the woods, igniting a summer of cosmic terror and twisted romance. As ancient malevolence stirs, will they embrace the entity reshaping their reality, or defy the encroaching madness at the risk of losing it all? Step into a world where love and horror collide, where destinies are forged in darkness, and where the line between salvation and damnation blurs.