Psychological Horror

Twelve-year-old Maddie Thompson and her friend Lana share a love of horror stories and wild imaginings. But Lana insists they are too old for pretending. It’s time for a different game: serving Him, a figure she sees lurking in the dark, mysterious and demanding. According to Lana, she and Maddie must obey Him or else suffer the consequences. Maddie doesn’t want to lose her most important friendship, even if it means luring an innocent girl into the woods—as a sacrifice for Him.

Roger leaves the house filled with memories of his father's abuse to follow his sister, Kara, to the big city. He's fleeing the trauma of his childhood, though his debilitating anxiety disorder stays with him. Kara finds a psychiatrist to help with that, a kind man named Mark Stephenson. Then Roger finds an affordable place in apartment 34 at Sunnycrest Apartments and a girlfriend, Lisa. Life is finally looking up. That is, until Roger realizes the girl across the hall, Alice, has a father very similar to his own.

Have you ever overheard a conversation and felt frustrated it had been cut short before hearing its outcome? These stories take the bones of unfinished conversations and give them a life of their own. No ordinary conclusions come from these re-imagined events....

Louise has no reason left to stay in the city. She can't see her son, Joseph, who is away at boarding school, where he performs in a prestigious boys' choir. Her troublesome neighbor has begun blasting choral music at all hours of the night - and to make matters worse, she's the only one who can hear it.

From the outside looking in, Mora's life appears perfect. She lives in an affluent neighborhood, attends one of the most prestigious schools in Maryland, and has a father who is one of the top psychiatrists in the nation. But if you take a closer look inside, things are not as wonderful as they seem. Voices whisper in Mora's ear, ghosts flicker in her peripheral vision, and chilling text messages warn her to be quiet. Then, a reflection that resembles her appears in the mirror - even while she's medicated.

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.

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.

Three lost souls will collide as they navigate through a mysterious town saturated with ash raining endlessly from the sky. They soon discover that they are not alone and will have to work together in order to escape alive. As they uncover clues scattered through the town they will have to decide which is more horrifying, themselves or those who are hiding within the ashes. Heaven is forgetting; hell is remembering.

In 1948, Irene Willard, who’s had five previous miscarriages in a quest to give her beloved husband the child he desperately desires and is now pregnant again, comes to an isolated house-cum-hospital in the Berkshires, run by a husband-and-wife team of doctors who are pioneering a cure for her condition. Warily, she enlists herself in the efforts of the Doctors Hall to “rectify the maternal environment,” both physical and psychological. In the meantime, she also discovers a long-forgotten walled garden on the spacious grounds, a place imbued with its own powers and pulls.

Ever since he nearly drowned in the ocean three years earlier, 10-year-old Jack Peter Keenan has been deathly afraid to venture outdoors. Refusing to leave his home in a small coastal town in Maine, Jack Peter spends his time drawing monsters. When those drawings take on a life of their own, no one is safe from the terror they inspire.

It's summer on the Jersey Shore. Children play on the beach. Husbands are off working in the city. And the surf echoes in the night. Here, in this perfect place, a serial killer has no worries in the world - except choosing the next victim. Cam Hastings has come to Long Beach Island with her teenage daughter and the hope that maybe she can save her failed marriage. Cam has never stopped loving her husband, Mike, nor has she been able to outrun her flaws and demons - a vanished mother, a lost sister, and the ugly visions she has of missing children.

Zło czai się bliżej, niż myślisz. Pierwsze powojenne miesiące. Do Olsztynka na Mazurach przybywa Stefan Malewski służący w Milicji Obywatelskiej. Rzeczywistość, jaką zastaje, to bandy, Werwolf, panoszący się wszędzie Sowieci. A jakby i tego było mało, to jeszcze... makabrycznie okaleczone zwłoki, porzucone w lesie w pobliżu miasteczka. Można by je uznać za dzieło dzikich zwierząt, gdyby nie to, że po miesiącu zostają znalezione następne, identycznie pokiereszowane.

Former FBI agent Darcy Gellar survived a serial killer and rescued her daughter. Yet the depraved followers of the mass murderer she captured are limitless, and they want to see Darcy and her family dead. After a mysterious stalker terrorizes her cousin, Darcy brings her family to Scarlet River, a sleepy town with a history of unsolved kidnappings and murders. Now another girl is missing, and the county sheriff puts Darcy on his suspect list. Darcy must clear her name and discover who the real killer is. But the trap is set for Darcy and her children.

Four students travel to Ravencliffe, an eerie abandoned hotel perched on steep cliffs on the Welsh coast. After a series of unexplained accidents, only three of them leave. The fourth, Leo, disappears, and is never seen again. A decade on, the friends have lost contact. Oscar is fame-hungry, making public appearances and selling his story. Richard sank into alcoholism and is only just recovering. Bex just wants to forget – until one last opportunity to go back offers the chance to find out what really happened to Leo.

“Extraordinary.”—Linwood Barclay “Tracy Sierra is a master of edge-of-your-seat suspense.”—Flynn Berry The heart-stopping second novel from the author of Nightwatching, in which a father-son ski weekend becomes a desperate fight for survival Twelve-year-old Zach is cautiously...

Tres mujeres, tres generaciones, tres voces inolvidables.Si no puedes volver atrás, elige otro camino. ¿Y si la felicidad estuviera justo ante tus propios ojos? Anna tiene treinta y ocho años, está separada y se le acumulan las facturas a pagar. Apenas tiene tiempo para sus hijas, Chloé y Lilly, con las que sólo se cruza a la hora del desayuno. Chloé, de diecisiete años, tiene la cabeza repleta de sueños, sueños a los que está a punto de renunciar y que sólo comparte en su blog. A Lilly, de doce, no le va muy bien en clase, pero únicamente lo sabe su diario.

Thomas Shepherd returns to Wolf Lake as the county’s new sheriff. This is the life he dreamed of. Friends he can rely on. An idyllic home along the water. Then a hiker uncovers human bones, rekindling the mysterious disappearance of Skye Feron, a popular teenager who vanished six years ago. Are these her remains? Disturbed by the grisly discovery, Skye’s close friends return to Wolf Lake. But as the investigation unfolds, Thomas links the girls to a ghost from their past. Are they hiding a deadly secret?

Marcus Lanehart has lived a lonely life in San Diego. He is haunted by recent loss in his personal life as well as being disowned by his family for being gay. Most of the aristocratic, wealthy, and right-wing Lanehart family still live under one roof at Ten Points, a 197-year-old former cotton plantation in north Louisiana. Marcus returns home after the death of his father, but a dysfunctional family of characters is the least of what awaits.

When the flood hits, America's East Coast is evacuated by every means possible. Brooklyn paramedic Travis Cooke had dreamed of reuniting his family, but not like this. Escaping New York with his son and the ex-wife he still loves - and her new husband - they find themselves evacuated on the luxury cruise ship, the Festival of the Waves. Hours later, the Festival lies dead in the open Atlantic: no power, no communications, and nowhere near enough food.

Wayward Pines, Idaho, eine idyllische Kleinstadt mitten im Nichts. Hier soll Secret-Service-Agent Ethan Burke zwei Vermisste aufspüren. Doch als er nach einem Verkehrsunfall im Krankenhaus des Ortes wieder zu sich kommt, ist seine eigentliche Mission sein geringstes Problem: All seine Sachen sind verschwunden, die Menschen um ihn herum verhalten sich äußerst merkwürdig, auf seine Fragen bekommt er nur ausweichende Antworten. Und als Ethan dann versucht, Wayward Pines zu verlassen, stößt er auf einen unüberwindbaren Zaun - und ein grauenvolles Geheimnis.