Psychological Horror

A gripping collection of propulsive, psychologically suspenseful stories by the legendary Joyce Carol Oates “who is surely on any shortlist of America’s greatest living writers” (The New York Times Magazine) “A genius in the truest sense of the word.”—Rebecca Makkai “One of the...

The Dunella Hotel, a legacy, a sanctuary. Bruce arrived seeking peace and a new life, but this old Georgian building nestled in a Scottish seaside town, harbours more than just guests. Hidden rooms, forgotten rituals, and a history steeped in dread begin to surface, twisting his newfound happiness into a horrifying ordeal. He must confront the hotel's dark secrets, or become another lost soul trapped within its haunted walls.

A woman falling out of sync with the world; a king’s servant hypnotized by his murderous horse; a transplanted ear with a mind of its own—the characters in these 25 stories live as interlopers in a world shaped by mysterious disappearances and unfathomable discrepancies between the real and imagined, revealing the breadth and depth of Evenson’s uncanny vision.

A suspense novel concerning Lieutenant Frank Mooney's quest to find the killer who has robbed, raped and murdered several New York women. The killer, and his female accomplice, realize someone is copying them and track down a second murderer. Written by the author of City of the Dead.

Somebody has been abducting children in Fairbanks, Alaska. One of the victims was 14-year-old Curtis Black's best friend, Todd. Curtis saw it happen. He knows exactly who did it. But he can't prove that it was his neighbor, Gerald Martin. The authorities find no evidence of the crime. There's nothing they can do. So he's going to confront Mr. Martin himself. And this is just the beginning of the terrifying story.

When Emily and Ben move in next door to Dr Burman and his wife, Anita, they are keen to get to know their new neighbours. Outgoing and sociable, Emily tries to befriend the doctor’s wife, but Anita is strangely subdued, barely leaving the house, and terrified of answering the phone. When Emily goes missing a few weeks later, Ben is plunged into a panic. His wife has left him a note, but can she really have abandoned him for another man? Or has Emily’s curiosity about the couple next door led her straight into danger?

A family moves into a scenic mountain town to start over. It is their intent to leave behind the violence and turmoil of their past. They find the perfect house situated on a large lake in the center of the town to begin the process of healing, but something is off. Lake Reflection is different. The negative energy and emotion they send out affects the large body of water and the townspeople are watching them very closely.

A man wakes locked in a cage, in a very dark place. One by one, the ghosts of his family appear to him. They share a message of healing, but not all is what it seems. A hitman is paid to eliminate the CEO of a powerful company, but when he makes a big bet with a local bookie, he realizes there’s much more to his current job than he ever knew. Can he survive the secrets he uncovers after seeing the man he killed alive and well?

An online identity, simply know as Frut-of-Her-Loins, makes a living by selling fruit (or other food) that has been inserted into her vagina for one full day. Needless to say, her website business is more profitable than one would imagine. A grieving housewife finds out that her husband has been a customer of Frut-of-Her-Loins. She gathers a group of angry wives and hunts down the woman behind the acts that they consider vile.

When Ed Loyce notices something disturbingly out of place in his small town, he's plunged into a nightmare where no one else seems to care. Is he losing his mind, or has the world itself gone mad?

That long-ago summer, four friends came face-to-face with strange, dark events they couldn’t explain away. As they grew up and left town, they each tried to forget. Instead, the secrets lingering in the shadowy corners of their minds shaped their lives, haunting each of them in their own way. Now, in this chilling four-part serial by New York Times bestselling author Lisa Unger, it’s time to stop running. It’s time to come home. Featuring: All My Darkest Impulses, Fog Descending, Circling the Drain, and Love the Way You Lie.

Marion Zetland lives with her domineering older brother, John, in a crumbling mansion on the edge of a northern seaside resort. A timid spinster in her 50s who still sleeps with teddy bears, Marion does her best to live by John's rules, even if it means turning a blind eye to the noises she hears coming from behind the cellar door...and turning a blind eye to the women's laundry in the hamper that isn't hers. For years she's buried the signs of John's devastating secret into the deep recesses of her mind - until the day John is crippled by a heart attack.

After her hand is amputated following a tragic accident, Rachel Cooper suffers vivid nightmares of a woman imprisoned in the trunk of a hollow tree, screaming for help. When she begins to experience phantom sensations of leaves and earth with her missing limb, Rachel is terrified she is going mad. But then another hand takes hers, and the trapped woman is pulled into our world.

Possession is an addiction. Sydney's spent years burying her past and building a better life for herself and her young son. A respectable marketing job, a house with reclaimed and sustainable furniture, and a boyfriend who loves her son and accepts her, flaws and all. But when she opens her front door, and a masked intruder knocks her briefly unconscious, everything begins to unravel. She wakes in the hospital and tells a harrowing story of escape. Of dashing out a broken window. Of running into her neighbors' yard and calling the police.

Two horrifying psychological thrillers from the Queen of Scream, all-star best-selling author Willow Rose. Mommy Dearest: When Crystal meets her future mother-in-law for the first time, she is excited. She knows it might be a challenge to have her live with them for an entire month, but still. It’s an old woman we’re talking about here. How much trouble can she cause? Chain Letter: They received a letter. They dismissed it as a prank, but as they soon will learn you never...ever ignore a chain letter.

Samantha’s family is falling apart. Her mother’s been dead a year. Her father’s barely keeping up with the bills. Even though Samantha is only sixteen, she’s forced to take the only job she can find. An assistant at the State Psychiatric Hospital where Ed Gein, the serial killer, and model for Psycho was housed.

Meg wants a normal life. Her new artistic style, born in the depression of her mother's death, is poised to take the art world by storm, if she could just overcome the debilitating anxiety caused by the car accident that scarred her boyfriend, Austin. Encouraged by her therapist, Meg pushes outside her comfort zone to befriend Haley, a guest instructor at the university. Haley is everything Meg wants to be: charismatic, confident, and perfect, but when Austin expresses his worry that Haley is changing Meg too fast, Meg kicks him out of her life. Or at least, she tries.

A young woman finds herself having nightmares every night only to realize that whatever she dreams becomes reality. Blood, gore and creatures not of this world never before seen come to life and they only want one thing. Her.

On a June night in the Berkshire Hills of Massachusetts, Marit Deym prowls her land, anxiously awaiting the arrival of the van from the Dangerfield Zoo. When it finally comes - hours late - five wolves leap out onto the sprawling wildlife refuge Marit has created. And then one night, the wolves bring a stranger to her door. A poetry instructor at a school for the blind, Gabriel Frankman lives in self-imposed exile after the death of the girl he loved. He visits her grave every weekend. He carries sunflower seeds in his backpack and his friends are the birds.

When six friends set out on what should be an adventurous weekend in the forest, they expect campfires, exploration and a break from reality. but the deeper they go, the stranger things become. Odd carvings appear on the trees, faint sounds echo through the stillness, and an unsettling presence seems to follow their every step. Cut off from the world, the group is forced to confront more than just the forest’s eerie mysteries. Tensions rise, paranoia sets in and an unshakable feeling of being watched grows stronger by the hour.