Psychological Horror Thriller

Blackwood mansion looms, surrounded by nightmare pines, atop the hill over the small town of New Haven. Ben Bookman, bestselling novelist and heir to the Blackwood estate, spent a weekend at the ancestral home to finish writing his latest horror novel, The Scarecrow. Now, on the eve of the book’s release, the terrible story within begins to unfold in real life.

The new baby arrives but Ashland can’t put off the inevitable. The medium must return to Magnolia Trace to set the captive dead free but not all spirits are happy about it. The loss of Amelia weighs heavily on everyone's heart yet they cannot provide answers for her family. To make matters worse, Ashland accidentally unleashes unwanted darkness that settles on his family home, Seven Sisters. The ghosts of Christine and Jeremiah Cottonwood are reunited and neither of them are happy about it. Will their constant warring break up CJ's and Ashland's happy marriage? Can Carrie Jo and Ashland ...

Once an aristocrat in the heady days of pre-revolutionary France, now Lestat is a rockstar in the demonic, shimmering 1980s. He rushes through the centuries in search of others like him, seeking answers to the mystery of his terrifying exsitence. His story, the second volume in Anne Rice's best-selling Vampire Chronicles, is mesmerizing, passionate, and thrilling.

When Louise finds out her parents have died, she dreads going home. She doesn’t want to leave her daughter with her ex and fly to Charleston. She doesn’t want to deal with her family home, stuffed to the rafters with the remnants of her father’s academic career and her mother’s lifelong obsession with puppets and dolls. She doesn’t want to learn how to live without the two people who knew and loved her best in the world. Most of all, she doesn’t want to deal with her brother, Mark, who never left their hometown, gets fired from one job after another, and resents her success.

When the mutilated bodies of two victims are discovered posed with surgical precision, investigative blogger Mara Reeves sees more than just a gruesome crime—she sees a message. A message that mirrors the night her parents were murdered two decades ago. Haunted by her past and driven by a compulsion she no longer questions, Mara launches her own investigation, one that spirals into obsession as a killer begins responding… directly to her. With each new murder, the message becomes clearer—and more personal. The killer is recreating a forgotten past, one that Mara has tried desperately ...

Room 17 was the last stop on her husband and son’s journey. Eight years after their deaths, Stella books the same room, hoping to commune with their memories. But as she tries to sleep, disturbing and urgent visions blur the lines between reality and the supernatural, and the other side sends a terrifying message.

It’s autumn in the town of Harrow, but something besides the season is changing there. Because in that town there is an orchard, and in that orchard, seven most unusual trees. And from those trees grows a new sort of apple: strange, beautiful, with skin so red it’s nearly black. Take a bite of one of these apples, and you will desire only to devour another. And another. You will become stronger. More vital. More yourself, you will believe. But then your appetite for the apples and their peculiar gifts will keep growing—and become darker.

After years of avoiding each other, Daisy Darker’s entire family is assembling for Nana’s 80th birthday party in Nana’s crumbling gothic house on a tiny tidal island. Finally back together one last time, when the tide comes in, they will be cut off from the rest of the world for eight hours. The family arrives, each of them harboring secrets. Then at the stroke of midnight, as a storm rages, Nana is found dead. And an hour later, the next family member follows…

Trapped in a mansion. Watched by an AI. Tested beyond reason. Only one will be chosen to survive. When tech visionary Eliot Vance invites six of his closest friends to an exclusive retreat in the mountains, they expect luxury, secrets, and maybe a few mind games. What they get instead is something else entirely. A glass-walled house that observes them. A mysterious system that forces confessions. Simulations that expose their darkest choices. And a voice that whispers: Choose… or be chosen. As the walls begin to shift and reality bends, the group realizes they are no longer guests. They ...

What if the monster wasn’t hiding in the shadows—what if it was hiding inside you? Dr. Elijah Kade was a pioneer in gene therapy, celebrated for pushing the boundaries of modern science. But when a secret experiment intended to unlock the body’s full potential turns into a nightmare, Elijah finds himself caught between two worlds—man and beast. Each transformation leaves a deeper scar, not just on his body, but on his soul. Haunted by blackouts, hunted by the biotech corporation that created him, and driven by a hunger he cannot control, Elijah must unravel the truth behind a ...

For 30 years, a secret agency called the Southern Reach has monitored expeditions into Area X - a remote and lush terrain mysteriously sequestered from civilization. After the 12th expedition, the Southern Reach is in disarray, and John Rodriguez (a.k.a. "Control") is the team's newly appointed head. From a series of interrogations, a cache of hidden notes, and more than two hundred hours of profoundly troubling video footage, the secrets of Area X begin to reveal themselves....

Blaze is the story of Clayton Blaisdell, Jr., of the crimes committed against him and the crimes he commits, including his last, the kidnapping of a baby heir worth millions. Blaze has been a slow thinker since childhood, when his father threw him down the stairs and then threw him down again. After escaping an abusive institution for boys when he was a teenager, Blaze hooks up with George, a seasoned criminal who thinks he has all the answers.

Lynnette Tarkington is a real-life final girl who survived a massacre. For more than a decade, she’s been meeting with five other final girls and their therapist in a support group for those who survived the unthinkable, working to put their lives back together. Then one woman misses a meeting, and their worst fears are realized - someone knows about the group and is determined to rip their lives apart again, piece by piece.

When Helen persuades her best friend Elaine to join her on a once in a lifetime trip around the world, neither of them could have envisaged the horrors awaiting them. Charmed by a local waiter, Helen soon finds herself dragged into an underground world of illegal sex shows and torture dens. Uncomfortable with the way things are progressing, she suggests leaving, moving on to their next destination. what she is unaware of however, is that Elaine is hiding a devastating secret, a threat made to her that has the power to rip both of their lives apart. unable to escape, the horrors they witness...

Vermont, 1950. There's a place for the girls whom no one wants - the troublemakers, the illegitimate, the too smart for their own good. It's called Idlewild Hall. And in the small town where it's located, there are rumors that the boarding school is haunted. Four roommates bond over their whispered fears, their budding friendship blossoming - until one of them mysteriously disappears.... Vermont, 2014. As much as she's tried, journalist Fiona Sheridan cannot stop revisiting the events surrounding her older sister's death.

Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.... The novel begins in Monte Carlo, where our heroine is swept off her feet by the dashing widower Maxim de Winter and his sudden proposal of marriage. Orphaned and working as a lady's maid, she can barely believe her luck. It is only when they arrive at his massive country estate that she realizes how large a shadow his late wife will cast over their lives - presenting her with a lingering evil that threatens to destroy their marriage from beyond the grave.

Spring Break, 1997. A group of college friends sets out for an unforgettable trip to Mexico, but their adventure takes a horrific turn when they are abducted by a satanic cult in the Tucson desert. Their captor? Zeena Graves—a strikingly beautiful yet merciless cult leader who commands her followers from the darkness of an abandoned church. As midnight strikes on Easter night, she prepares to enact a ritual drenched in blood and terror that can only be completed After the Pink Moon. Bound by fear, surrounded by zealots, and with time slipping away, the captives must find a way to escape ...

"I believe there is another man inside every man, a stranger...." writes Wilfred Leland James in the early pages of the riveting confession that makes up "1922", the first in this pitch-black quartet of mesmerizing tales from Stephen King. For James, that stranger is awakened when his wife, Arlette, proposes selling off the family homestead and moving to Omaha, setting in motion a gruesome train of murder and madness.

Aidan Thomas is a hard-working family man and a somewhat beloved figure in the small upstate New York town where he lives. He’s the kind of man who always lends a hand and has a good word for everyone. But Aidan has a dark secret he’s been keeping from everyone in town and those closest to him. He’s a kidnapper and serial killer. Aidan has murdered eight women and there’s a ninth he has earmarked for death: Rachel, imprisoned in a backyard shed, fearing for her life.

An unpopular teenage girl, whose mother is a religious fanatic, is tormented and teased to the breaking point by her more popular schoolmates. She uses her hidden telekinetic powers to inflict a terrifying revenge.