Psychological Horror Thriller

The Oaks is an idyllic, up-market country club—but its ornately carved walls hide a horrific past. Sixty years ago the house was an asylum, home to crazed psychopaths. One night all of them disappeared, never to be seen again. Jack Reed, the owner of The Oaks, has no idea about the building's terrible history. It is only when Jack's son is dragged into the walls of the mansion that he realises what happened sixty years ago—and just where the inmates have been living all this time...

In 1972, The Night Stalker took America by storm, becoming the highest-rated TV movie at the time and spawning a second movie and a cult series, all starring Darren McGavin. The story of a blood-sucking psycho on the loose in Sin City started with a then-unpublished novel by Las Vegas reporter Jeff Rice. Now, after years of being out of print, Monstrous Books presents this restored version of the book that launched one of the most beloved and influential characters in TV history.

A city is hit by a sudden and strange epidemic of "white blindness", which spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there social conventions quickly crumble and the struggle for survival brings out the worst in people.

When a missing girl’s trail reopens in a coastal town that survives on forgetting, one woman must confront the secrets she ran from—and the silence she helped create. After ten years away, she returns to care for her ailing father—but the town hasn’t moved on. Whispers follow her. Eyes linger. No one says it aloud, but they all remember the girl who vanished… and the last person to see her alive. When torn pages from a diary surface beneath the floorboards, she’s forced to face what she buried: the truth doesn’t rot—it waits. In a town where everyone is complicit and silence...

Late one moonlit night, Walter Hartright encounters a solitary and terrified woman dressed all in white. He saves her from capture by her pursuers and determines to solve the mystery of her distress and terror. Inspired by an actual criminal case, this gripping tale of murder, intrigue, madness and mistaken identity has never been out of print since its publication and brought Collins great fame and success.

Their Collapse is the fourth haunting installment in the critically acclaimed The Weight of Your Shadow series by dark fiction author Ava Rowens. Told in chilling second-person perspective, the series follows you, an intelligent, unsettling presence living two lives—one curated, one compelled. After orchestrating the “cleansing” of a toxic factory owner in a small town that would rather forget, you return home unchanged on the surface—but deeper fractures have started to show. The women of the last kill still echo in your head. The blank hours, the absence of control, the ...

In the near future, when America has become a police state, 100 boys are selected to enter an annual contest where the winner will be awarded whatever he wants for the rest of his life. Among them is 16-year-old Ray Garraty, and he knows the rules - keep a steady walking pace of four miles per hour without stopping. Three warnings and you're out - permanently.

“If this book doesn’t scare you, I’m not sure anything can.” Then Jesus demanded the demon give its name. And it responded, “I am Legion, for we are many.” – Mark 5:9 As a wave of grisly, ritualistic killings sweeps across Los Angeles, the police have only one lead – a mysterious girl caught at one of the crime scenes. But something’s wrong with her beyond the feral rage in her eyes. It’s something deep inside her. Taken to prison, the guards and police learn she hides terrifying secrets even the prison walls can’t contain. Powers to move objects and compel people. To ...

For fans of Karin Slaughter, Psychological Horror, and Suspense Thrillers Lynn is a normal girl who moved to Manhattan against her parent's wishes. They worried about how their daughter from a small town would handle a big city. When Lynns attacked, it puts her on a path with a Detective that she doesn't quite understand but one that may know more about what's happened as the case unravels. The Detective starts to see a pattern, something that's familiar to her from a past that she's dying to forget. Except, the past that she remembers belongs more in a horror movie than real ...

When a woman wakes on a desolate beach with no memory and a spiral scar etched into her wrist, the quiet coastal town of Seacliff becomes the stage for something far more sinister than amnesia. As disturbing visions, buried identities, and whispers from the past claw their way to the surface, Jane Doe must unravel the truth—about a missing cult, a forgotten name, and the darkness she might have willingly embraced. Broken Memory is the explosive first book in the chilling new Vacant Shadows series, a psychological thriller trilogy crackling with dread, deception, and deadly revelations. ...

When a string of peaceful deaths begins targeting survivors of domestic violence, prosecutor Elena Marquez is drawn into a case that doesn’t look like murder—until she realizes the killer believes he's saving them. Now, Elena must confront a twisted new gospel of silence, before another woman disappears into its promise of mercy. Silent Ghost is the gripping second book in The Prosecutor’s Journals, a dark and suspenseful new psychological thriller series by bestselling author Blake Pierce. Following the haunting events of Silent Pattern (Book #1), Elena Marquez returns in a chilling ...

Some places are too good to be true. Under a pink moon, there is a perfect little town not found on any map. In that town, there are quiet streets lined with pretty houses, houses that conceal the strangest things. After a couple years of hard traveling, ex-cop Mona Bright inherits her long-dead mother's home in Wink, New Mexico. And the closer Mona gets to her mother's past, the more she understands that the people of Wink are very, very different....

Horror is what Dan Law enjoys. He loves to read horror novels as a way to escape from his teaching job, from his loneliness, from the everyday dullness of life in Silver Lake. That’s what Dan lives for. When a new bookstore opens in town, every visitor receives a free book of their own. A book that tells their own personal story...a story they have to follow to the brutal end. As Silver Lake’s population descends into violent savagery, Dan finds he is no longer living for horror novels - he’s living inside one.

In the frigid pre-dawn hours, in a distressed Midwestern city, hundreds of desperate unemployed folks are lined up for a spot at a job fair. Without warning, a lone driver plows through the crowd in a stolen Mercedes, running over the innocent, backing up, and charging again. Eight people are killed; fifteen are wounded. The killer escapes. Mr. Mercedes is a war between good and evil, from the master of suspense whose insight into the mind of this obsessed, insane killer is chilling and unforgettable.

The Night Watchman is ready to kill - again. After 35 years in prison, he is free to commit the same twisted atrocities that once made him as notorious as the Zodiac Killer and Jack the Ripper. Now, at last, his moment has come. Through her television appearances, renowned clairvoyant Lucinda Sloan helps police capture America's most wanted. Unfortunately, she's also captured the eye of the Night Watchman. Once he learns that Sloan "sees" his crimes, it's time to play.

Ollie and Caro Harcourt are moving house with their 12-year-old daughter Jade. Ollie is desperate to leave the city. Caro is less sure. Then they view Cold Hill House, a dilapidated rural mansion, and fall instantly in love. It's expensive, but with its space, seclusion, and huge grounds, it seems like a brilliant idea. That is, until they arrive. It soon becomes apparent that they are not alone. A spectral woman appears on screens and walks the corridors, vanishing before she can be challenged.

Something ancient and terrifying lurks in the depths of Scape Ore Swamp. Lance Simms and Mark Briggs thought they were on a routine alligator hunt. They had their sights set on a record-breaking bull gator, but what they found was something else entirely—something that shouldn’t exist. When Mark is dragged beneath the water by a monstrous, reptilian creature, Lance barely escapes with his life. Now, the case has caught the attention of Dark Angel Medical—or rather, the team that operates behind its cover. Rick, Doc, Sarah, and D.A. have dealt with things most people wouldn’t believe...

The beast prowls the ancient forest. Driven to desperation by debt collectors, Caleb invites his childhood friends to a remote cabin, intending to rob them to save his own skin. Little does he know that in the nearby forest, ancient malice festers, awakened by the reckless curiosity of Aline – a brave explorer seeking solace from the ghosts of her past. As darkness descends upon the world, the creature that lay dormant for decades will rise again, and those unfortunate to wander into its domain will find themselves in the greatest nightmare of their lives. With all odds stacked against ...

FBI agent Matthew Roarke has been on leave, and in seclusion, since the capture of mass killer Cara Lindstrom - the victim turned avenger who preys on predators. Torn between devotion to the law and a powerful attraction to Cara and her lethal brand of justice, Roarke has retreated from both to search his soul. But Cara's escape from custody and a police detective's cryptic challenge soon draw him out of exile to probe an unsolved murder that could be the key to her long and deadly career.

Christian Windsor is a certified genius. He's also autistic. At 23 years old, with two PhDs, Christian joins the FBI's most dangerous division, The Exceptional Crimes Unit. His first assignment? A serial killer on a rampage. Nicknamed The Surgeon, he's cutting the eyeballs out of women. That's not the only psychopath lurking in the shadows, though. There's another, and Christian can't see him.