Psychological Thriller Short Stories

From award-winning writer/director/producer George Zarr comes a five-story anthology of suspense and mystery. Each tale features a full cast, engaging sound effects, and original music.

Sarah Vernon has spent 20 years trying to make it as a novelist...and she’s never even come close. None of her novels has sold more than 5,000 copies, and she’s never earned enough money to make fiction her full-time job. After her last disappointing publication, Sarah’s agent dumped her, and it seems like her dream is dead. Sarah vows that she’ll do anything for one last shot at the best seller list. Enter Will Presser. Nicknamed The Viper, Will is a literary agent whose career-making reputation precedes him.

Since he was a child, Jack’s been tormented by the Imp—a diabolical unseen presence that feeds his darkest impulses with horrifying images. To protect others from the monster’s twisted desires, Jack lives in self-imposed exile, a plan that’s worked well…until Celia. His new neighbor’s warmth and charisma break through Jack’s defensive walls, but letting her in means exposing her to the Imp.

Hope is unraveling fast. A wealthy man’s daughter has disappeared, and every lie drives her farther from home. Desperation turns trust to suspicion, and the search becomes a test of loyalty no one expected. But when truth hides behind too many masks, who will pay the price?

Poison-tongued film critic Reginald Wright is known for his creative insults and intolerance for the garbage culture, insufferable rudeness, and thoughtless racism of predictably common people. Now, against his better judgment, and with a marriage in crisis, he’s attempting a getaway in the Poconos that quickly fulfills his every low expectation. In fact, it’s becoming a nightmare. And that’s just what Reginald needs to wake up.

What really happened to the girl who walked into the woods and vanished forever? It’s a never-forgotten mystery that clings like a shadow in a short story about dark memories and inescapable fears.

Is it a hoax, or is it something unspeakably real? In this short story about evil games and spiraling secrets, whatever bargain you strike, there’s a price to be paid. Mason Brandt dropped out of seminary and found a job at a spiritual center offering guidance to troubled teens. Mason was one himself years ago - a suspect in a young girl’s disappearance. When a female student is found murdered, Mason is dogged by suspicion and flees. He hopes Merle House will offer him sanctuary once again.

When Captain Kellen Adams receives a job offer that sounds too good to be true, she finds herself balanced between fascination and fear. All she has to do is break a code and find a long-lost fortune...or die trying. New York Times bestselling author Christina Dodd kicks off her Cape Charade suspense series with Hard to Kill, a short story of treasure, treachery...and murder.

From Book 1: Warning cliffhangers and jaw-droppers ahead! Perfect for fans of The Leftovers, The Handmaid’s Tale, and Gone Girl...a chilling pause-resister with delicious dialogue and a plot that creeps and crawls! Home, Syd West’s twisted thriller series, will get under your skin!

The truth was never meant to surface. When a woman stumbles upon a failed cloning experiment, fear takes hold. The wreckage of betrayal threatens everything she loves, but the terror has only begun. In a cursed graveyard, desperation tightens its grip as two souls flee a vengeful coven. The darkness grows, ready to consume them. A man, bound by the weight of family tradition, faces a brutal choice. Obedience or freedom. The chains have held him for years, but breaking them may cost more than he can bear.

He trusted the wrong hands, and now his work is gone. Betrayal cuts deep, twisting friendships into threats as suspicion takes hold. And when the shadows close in, he learns too late that no one is truly safe. She returns home searching for peace, but the past awakens in whispers and screams. Some horrors never died, and now they want her to remember. Can she survive what waits in the dark?

Haruki is traveling to the vast plains of Hokkaido, Japan, on a lone bus about to enter a three-kilometer-long tunnel. He is grieving for the loss of his wife when the tunnel collapses and traps the bus inside. In the darkness that follows, he manages to fumble out of the bus with the only other survivor, an astute and gentle woman who reminds him of his late wife. Without any light to guide them and with only each other to depend on, they try to escape the stifling darkness and along the way find themselves confronted by their pasts and given their last chance at intimacy, and ultimately, absolution.

While renovating her Victorian home, Ana Clementine finds an ornate door buried under forty years of earth. Once she restores it to the attic, she starts hearing whispers, her loving husband has become a stranger, and her baby daughter learns a chilling new word. Maybe Ana has unlocked the house’s secrets. Or maybe she’s becoming just a little unhinged herself.

Robert Hunter, Anfang zwanzig, ist das Wunderkind der amerikanischen Polizei. Er verfügt über eine besondere Gabe: Er weiß, was Mörder denken. Als jüngster Ermittler in der Geschichte der USA tritt er in den Dienst des LAPD Morddezernats. Worüber sein neuer Chef alles andere als glücklich ist. Was soll er mit diesem Anfänger? Er übergibt ihm einen einfachen Selbstmord. Am Tatort angekommen, stellt Hunter fest, dass das Apartment von innen verschlossen war. Auf dem Bett liegt eine junge Frau in einer riesigen Blutlache.

Award-winning crime novelist Rob Riley takes a sharp turn into dark, psychological territory with his new short story, The Do-Over. Bill Simons, a man who needs to change his life and location, moves to New York City to begin again - in many ways. A professional and a gentleman, he is off to a fine start, when he meets and begins a relationship with a beautiful woman. The past oozes into and pollutes the present, and the changes he is forced to make bring a do-over of the nightmare from which he had escaped.

When forensic psychiatrist Abigail Lee meets a baby-killing mother who has been declared criminally insane and acquitted, she discovers something lurking beneath the surface. Something far deeper and more insidious than mere psychopathy. But can she come to terms with her own struggle with science and faith in time to confront it?

A young girl's imaginary friend turns out to be more than she thought. A group of teens come across a cursed book in the woods. A man wakes up with a killer hangover and a surprise. A tired lawyer tries to unwind with his wife after a hard day at work. What do all these things have in common? Dreams. The author, Zack Nethery, often has trouble sleeping. However, when he does, he has vivid dreams that are filled with horror and suspense. Each story in the anthology is taken directly from Nethery’s unconscious mind during the night.

His pulse hammers as guards tighten their grip on East Berlin’s crumbling borders. Doubt creeps in like cold air, but he’s come too far to be captured now. Each step toward freedom weighs heavier than the last. Betrayal shattered her world. The man she once loved stands at the center of a devastating truth. Her heart aches with disbelief, but denial can no longer shield her from what’s real. A new life in America should bring peace, but shadows of the past refuse to fade. With each revelation, her hope dims, and nightmares creep into the daylight.

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After Chloe and her daughter, Freya, are rescued from disaster by a man, Chloe decides she must find him again to thank him. But instead of meeting her knight in shining armour, she comes across Nadine Caspian, who warns her to stay away from him. The man is dangerous, Nadine claims, and a compulsive liar. Alarmed, Chloe knows that the sensible choice would be to walk away. But she is too curious. What could Nadine have meant?