Psychological Thriller Supernatural

Von einer Italienreise bringt die Violinistin Julia Ansdell ein altes Notenbuch mit nach Hause. Es enthält eine bislang völlig unbekannte Walzerkomposition. Julia ist fasziniert von dem Stück, doch jedes Mal, wenn sie es spielt, geschehen merkwürdige Dinge. Etwas Bösartiges geht von dem Walzer aus, etwas, das das Wesen von Julias dreijähriger Tochter auf beunruhigende Weise zu verändern scheint.

On the family homestead where she grew up, Martha Mary saw ghosts. As a young woman, she hopes to distance herself from those spirits by escaping to an inland college town. There she is absorbed by a budding romance, relieved by separation from an unstable sister, and disinterested in the flyers seeking information about a young woman who has disappeared - until one Indian summer afternoon when the missing woman appears beneath Martha’s apartment window, wearing a winter coat, her hair coated with ice.

Grade school teacher and aspiring author Peregrine Long sees a Chinese family on board a ship - in his morning tea. The image inspires him to write the story of this family, but then a woman turns up at his door, claiming that he's writing her family history exactly as it happened. She doesn't like it, but she has one question: What happened to the little boy of the family, her long-lost uncle?

"Du hast es wohl noch nicht kapiert", zischte der Mann mit der Maske wütend, "dich wird nur der Tod hier herausbringen, denn du bist das Mädchen ohne Wiederkehr." Die siebzehnjährige Claudia Wegener verschwindet nach einem Streit mit ihren Eltern spurlos. Man hält sie für eine Ausreißerin, doch in Wahrheit wird ein dunkler Keller zu ihrer Todeszelle. Vierzehn Jahre später lässt sich Hauptkommissar Marco Reinert nach Stuttgart versetzen, um den eigenen Dämonen zu entkommen - bereits am ersten Tag wird er zu einem Tatort gerufen. Eine junge Frau, Claudia nicht unähnlich, wurde brutal ermordet.

Ada König will herausfinden, was diese wichtige Sache ist, die ihr Vater ihr erzählen wollte, kurz bevor er das Lenkrad herumriss und die Welt ins Chaos stürzte. Was hat es mit dem 'Verbrannten Mann' auf sich, der Ada seit dem Autounfall verfolgt, und wieso träumt sie von Else, der alten Frau aus dem Dorf, die sich an nichts erinnert und doch nie vergisst, die Walnüsse aufzusammeln, die der Meister im Garten des Königs fallen lässt. "Du glaubst doch nicht, dass so ein Pakt über Leben und Tod ohne Gegenleistung geschlossen wird.

In der Silvesternacht verschwinden vor der Küste Cornwalls drei Männer spurlos von einem Leuchtturm. Die Tür ist von innen verschlossen. Der zum Abendessen gedeckte Tisch ist unberührt. Die Uhren sind stehengeblieben. Zurück bleiben drei Frauen, die auch zwei Jahrzehnte später von dem rätselhaften Geschehen verfolgt werden. Die Tragödie hätte Helen, Jenny und Michelle zusammenbringen sollen, hat sie aber auseinandergerissen. Als sie zum ersten Mal ihre Seite der Geschichte erzählen, kommt ein Leben voller Entbehrungen zutage - des monatelangen Getrenntseins, des Sehnens und Hoffens.

One rainy night, the unthinkable happens: Dylan Moran’s car plunges off the road into a raging river, his beautiful wife drowning as he struggles to shore. In the aftermath, through his grief, Dylan experiences sudden, strange visions: wherever he goes, he’s haunted by glimpses of himself. Dylan initially chalks it up to trauma, but that changes when he runs into a psychiatrist who claims he’s her patient. She says he has been undergoing a unique hypnotherapy treatment built on the idea that with every choice, he creates an infinite number of parallel universes.

When small-town police officers discover the grave of a young boy, they’re quick to pin the crime on a convicted criminal who lives nearby. But when it comes to murder, Officer Susan Marlan never trusts a simple explanation, so she’s just getting started. Meanwhile, college professor Eric Evans hallucinates a young boy in overalls: a symptom of his schizophrenia - or so he thinks. But when more bodies turn up, Eric has more visions, and they mirror details of the murder case.

When journalist Ava Brent decides to investigate the dark mystery of Overtoun Estate — a "thin place", steeped in myth — she has no idea how dangerous this story will be for her. Overtoun looms over the town, watching, waiting: the locals fearful of the strange building and the secrets it keeps. When Ava starts to ask questions, the warm welcome she first receives turns to a cold shoulder. And before she knows it, Ava is caught in the house’s grasp too.

One February afternoon, Detective Ray Flowers' life is blown apart by a petrol bomb attack. No one can tell him who did it. Or why. Anchorless and alone, he moves to his aunt's country cottage. What he needs is perspective. Instead, he is tormented by visions of Kitty Hallam, a troubled young woman accused of witchcraft. Back in 1643. Is she a figment of Flowers' imagination or something more? Whatever the truth, Flowers can't help but be drawn into Kitty's world, sensing their stories are intertwined somehow.

When Detective Inspector Joe Lazarus storms a Lincolnshire farmhouse, he expects to bring down a notorious drug gang; instead, he discovers his own body and a spirit guide called Daisy-May. She's there to enlist him to the Dying Squad, a spectral police force who solve crimes their flesh and blood counterparts cannot. Lazarus reluctantly accepts and returns to the Lincolnshire Badlands, where he faces dangers from both the living and the dead in his quest to discover the identity of his killer - before they kill again.

Following a near-fatal car accident, Senator Max Lathrup is diagnosed with trauma-induced psychosis. While seeking treatment outside his elitist medical network, he meets psychotherapist Rebecca Radford, who believes the voices he hears are demonic spirits from Hell. When Max rejects her theory, his mind is dragged into a state of consciousness he never thought could exist. After acknowledging his demons to be real, they begin to help him achieve vast supernatural power on earth.

Across London, hospital patients are dying - in shockingly unnatural circumstances. A sadistic young woman is targeting them as they lie helpless in their beds, eking out every last sensation of pain as their lives ebb to an excruciating close. The killer is a sadist, but careful too, so the police bring in forensic psychologist Dr. Alex Madison to track down what is clearly an extraordinary and damaged mind.

Jude Craig is a level-headed teacher in a Yorkshire secondary school. Within a matter of days her professional and personal life is shattered by a series of strange events in her house...When Jude is driven out of her job and home she is forced to discover whether she is being haunted, stalked by a pupil, or the terrifying possibility that she is losing her mind.

Three university scientists are found dead in a gruesome murder-suicide, and the only suspect in the case, Victor Lazar, is quickly captured. When the spate of violent suicides follows him to prison he is moved to solitary confinement, reserved for the highest-risk inmates. And then his assigned psychologist inexplicably takes his own life. Alex Madison, a former forensic psychologist turned private therapist, is brought in to interview Victor. He suspects that Victor is controlling his victims, somehow coaxing them into a suggestive trance.

This psychological thriller takes us through the lives of liars and champions. And those caught between the two. Wasteful is a tale that displays the mask people use to survive in the world. Even if it means they survive as someone else.

Madonna ist ein Geist, eine Namenlose, ihre Zelle trägt die Nummer 13. Ohne jede Hoffnung muss sie Nacht für Nacht Unvorstellbares über sich ergehen lassen. Doch Madonna ist zäh. Und geduldig. Denn sie weiß: Sie muss zurück zu den Anfängen ihres Martyriums, um es zu beenden. Als ihr endlich die Flucht gelingt, begibt sie sich auf eine gnadenlose Odyssee, immer nur ein Ziel vor Augen: Rache. Doch überall lauert Gefahr, und auch ihre Peiniger sind ihr bereits auf den Fersen, und irgendwann muss sie sich die Frage stellen: Soll sie weiter fliehen oder sich ihren Dämonen stellen?

Victoria Sheldon's life couldn't get anymore mundane. Since marrying Adam, who's often occupied with more important matters than investing time in their marriage, Victoria got used to being lonely. She passes the time by watching movies, including those with Kyran Cornell, her imagined flame. That's until she finds herself abducted and thrust into a fantasy guided by a madman with a bizarre appetite for brutality.

Dive into the terrors that lurk behind every corner and in every shadow of the world with these flesh-crawling tales, eight spine-tingling horror stories by Leigh Harlen.

Seven strange stand-alone tales involving unusual people caught in disturbing circumstances are presented in this collection.