Psychological Anthology

Mysteries of Golfton Hills is a set of sixteen gripping psychological suspense, crime, and thriller audio short stories by bestselling author R. Barri Flowers, set in the fictional town of Golfton Hills, Florida, situated in the Panhandle.

With hold-your-breath suspense and shocking endings, the five short stories in this collection will put you on the edge of your seat and get your brain and blood pumping.

A Short Walk to the Other Side is a second short story collection of supernatural, metaphysical, science fiction, and horror stories following "The Small Dark Room of the Soul" by award-winning author Matthew J. Pallamary that examines the shadow side of human nature.

Enter the deliriously sexy world of torment and restraint, bondage and desire…The yearning for a partner who will take control can grip you as powerfully as the most intricate, indecipherable rope knot. Whether a simple leather strap, a shiny pair of handcuffs, a delicate silk scarf or a dom's stern gaze, the right kind of restraint can unleash hidden desires. In Slave to Love, Alison Tyler gathers the most popular - and often most taboo - fantasies of sexual control and erotic restraint.

Motels dot the highways of America, providing a range of services and prices. We use them. Thousands of us use them for a place to rest, for meetings and assignations, and even, at times, to act out life's dramas. They are soulless places, almost perfect for the tragic endings that sometimes seem to take on their own power and strength, playing out no matter what we truly want.

A man recounts and explains how he became obsessed in studying scratches on walls, so much so that he became an expert at identifying the very people who did the scratches.

Leo Tolstoy's short story "My Dream" is the tale of a broken relationship between a father and his daughter. It begins with the father vowing to never have a relationship with his daughter who has left home. She also ends up having a child out of wedlock.

Questo audiolibro presenta i racconti più significativi tra quelli scritti dall'autore triestino, in cui ritornano sotto mentite spoglie i grandi temi tipici della sua letteratura...

The short story Voices follows Michael, a very successful business man. He loses each of his wives after they absurdly claim they can hear or talk to the spirits in the house. Michael is dragged through turmoil until he confronts the voices. Voices is loosely based on a true encounter.

Terry loves his coffee. One morning while enjoying his daily intake, a stranger approaches his table and accuses Terry of following him. From that moment on, Terry's life becomes a living nightmare as he tries to defend himself from the insanity around him.

After 10 years of marriage, Mike and Emilia's relationship falls apart after Emilia admits to having an affair - an affair with a man who gave her HIV. Once Mike finds out what she's done, he will go to any length to ensure she dies a slow, painful death, just like the one he's sure his wife has sentenced him to.

This is a story about one family's fight with a mentally ill mother and how as she gets further and further away from reality; how the family falls apart.

Meet Catherine and Erin. The relationship is complicated and sometimes toxic. When they invite another friend into their life, they discover that, of the three, only one of them can survive. Who will outlive the dysfunction?

Two hitmen in a depressed rust belt town struggle with a job gone wrong. A girl witnesses a horrifying accident and carries it with her for the rest of her life. Medical students bring a severed foot to a college party. Five-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Joyce Carol Oates has made a career of exploring the forbidden corners of human experience, and the stories collected here, spanning her first three decades as a writer, are among her most unsettling and unforgettable works to date.

L'assassino di un vecchio avvocato dopo aver commesso l'efferato omicidio, viene tormentato dal suono fantasma del cuore della vittima, smembrata e occultata sotto il pavimento. Durante un interrogatorio, proprio sul luogo dove è seppellito il pover'uomo assassinato, il cuore 'rivelatore' sospinge alla follia l'avvocato il quale fuori controllo confessa l'omicidio. Classico racconto del romanzo gotico, "Il cuore rivelatore" è considerato fra le massime espressioni dell'opera di Poe.

Si tratta di un racconto lungo. Un facchino uccide e deruba un compagno di sbornie. Compie poi, sulla spinta del senso di colpa, una serie di errori che porteranno al suo smascheramento e al suo arresto. Si avverte l'influenza sulla narrazione di Zola e del naturalismo. Si avvertono, inoltre, echi kafkiani e dostoevskijani, ma sopratutto traspare la passione dell'autore per l'analisi psicologica.

Eine frisch verheiratete Frau sehnt sich obsessiv nach einem gelben Regenschirm. Ein Ehemann verjagt die geliebte Katze seiner Frau. Eine betrogene Mutter entlässt impulsiv ihre Haushälterin. Unter der Oberfläche dieser unbeirrbar scharf beobachteten Geschichten über Liebe und Beziehungen im Kopenhagen des 20. Jahrhunderts pulsieren Verlangen und Verzweiflung. Während vor allem die Frauen darum kämpfen, den ihnen zugewiesenen Rollen zu entkommen, träumen sie davon, frei und glücklich zu werden – ohne je ganz zu verstehen, was das wahrhaft bedeuten könnte.

Wir liefen uns zufällig über den Weg. Ich hatte Charlie seit Jahren nicht mehr gesehen. Er lud mich zu sich ein, auf ein paar Drinks. Wir lachten und quatschten über die alten Zeiten. Es war ein angenehmer Abend. Bis Charlie mir diese alte Truhe zeigte. Ich hätte besser nicht fragen sollen, was sich darin befand.

Glitzer und Staub – zwei Dinge, die nicht zusammengehören und doch hier an diesem Ort vereint sind wie ein Paar Socken, von denen eines ein Loch hat. Ich bin die Socke mit dem Loch, war es immer gewesen. Ich bin der Staub, den man gern unter den Teppich kehrt wie unliebsame Wahrheiten. Melissa kehrt nach fünfzehn Jahren an jenen Ort zurück, wo sie ihre Kindheit verbrachte. Ihre Mutter überreicht ihr einen Karton, in dem ein altes Handy liegt. Es empfängt Nachrichten, die nicht real sein können. Oder doch? Erinnerungen sind subjektive Wahrnehmungen, die unser Gehirn speichert.

From the Man Booker-shortlisted author of Fever Dream comes a hotly anticipated new collection of eerie short stories. Playful and unsettling, teeming with the energy of barely contained violence, Seven Empty Houses dismantles the neat appearance of domesticity to expose the darkness and discomfort that lies beneath.