Psychological Horror Thriller

"I very much need to be dead." These are the chilling words left behind by a man who had everything to live for - but took his own life. In the void that remains stands his widow, Jane, surrounded by questions destined to go unanswered...unless she does what all the grief, fear, confusion, and fury inside of her demand: find the truth, no matter what. There is no one else to speak for Jane's husband - or the others who have followed him into death at their own hands.

A serial murderer known only by a grotesquely apt nickname—Buffalo Bill—is stalking women. He has a purpose, but no one can fathom it, for the bodies are discovered in different states. Clarice Starling, a young trainee at the FBI Academy, is surprised to be summoned by Jack Crawford, chief of the Bureau's Behavioral Science section. Her assignment: to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter—Hannibal the Cannibal—who is kept under close watch in the Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane.

When a quiet mountain town becomes a hotspot for unexplained phenomena, Mara Winters—ghost hunter, vlogger, and survivor of her own haunted past—arrives desperate for answers. But the deeper she digs, the more the town’s secrets twist around her, stirring old memories she can’t trust and uncovering a force more disturbing than anything she's faced before. Haunted Secrets is the third book in the chilling Haunted Truth series, a psychological thriller that plunges readers into a world where the line between reality and illusion blurs beyond recognition. Darkly atmospheric and ...

When a body is discovered posed beneath the high school floodlights, Sheriff Jenna Graves knows it’s not a crime scene — it’s a message. The girl’s expression is too calm. Her placement too precise. And tucked beneath her wrist is a note with Jenna’s name on it. As more victims surface, each one eerily familiar, Jenna begins to unravel a chilling truth: the murders aren’t random, they’re intimate. Every spiral carved into bone, every whisper scrawled in ash, points back to a past she has tried—and failed—to forget. But the Hollow remembers. And it's not just the town ...

Trapped in an elevator in a borrowed apartment, a young woman battles to keep her sanity while attempting to come to terms with all she has lost. When Laura's friend Marianne suggests she joins her for a few days in a multi-million-dollar apartment on the shores of Lake Wakatipu, it doesn't take Laura long to think about the offer and come up with a yes. However, soon after Marianne leaves at the end of what was supposed to be a relaxing vacation, Laura finds herself alone and trapped between floors in the apartment's private elevator. This should be Laura's worst nightmare but things go ...

Nicole Cutty and Megan McDonald are both high school seniors in the small town of Emerson Bay, North Carolina. When they disappear from a beach party one warm summer night, police launch a massive search. No clues are found, and hope is almost lost until Megan miraculously surfaces after escaping from a bunker deep in the woods. A year later the best-selling account of her ordeal has turned Megan from local hero to national celebrity.

Andrew Thale is not exactly thrilled when his overbearing father sends him on an errand to assess the property inherited from an eccentric aunt. Andrew is intrigued though, when he finds the house fully occupied. Its odd and interesting residents have a calming effect on him, especially the beautiful young woman named Tarragon. But his arrival seems to have set a series of mysterious events into motion. Narrator John McDonough’s engaging performance lets you share in the excitement and camaraderie.

You don't chase the spiral. You survive it long enough, and it starts chasing something inside you. Detective Addison Carrow is used to blood. She's cataloged it, crawled through it, bathed in the aftermath of its patterns. But the man who taught her the language of violence—the one who stitched murder into shape like poetry—is gone. Vale has vanished. Or dissolved. Or maybe he was never real to begin with. Except the bodies haven’t stopped. Now they’re quieter. Meaner. Someone is killing with intention, with ritual, with a fluency that only one person should possess. Addison knows ...

A collection of four critically acclaimed, gripping short novels that delve into the depths of survival, obsession, and the dark side of human nature.Box of Bones Jim, an American expat teaching English in the Philippines, wakes up after a night out to find himself trapped inside a pitch-black coffin—running out of oxygen and out of time. With only his cell phone and his wits, he must fight panic and exhaustion in a desperate race against death.Six Bullets Thirteen months after a massive asteroid wiped out civilization, survivalist Burt James is still alive—bunkered in his fortified ...

Richard doesn’t have a past. For him, there is only the present: a new marriage to Tamara, a first chance at fatherhood to her son, Elijah, and a quiet but pleasant life as an art teacher at Elijah’s elementary school in Danvers, Virginia. Then the body of a rabbit, ritualistically murdered, appears on the school grounds with a birthday card for Richard tucked beneath it. Richard doesn’t have a birthday - but Sean does.... Sean is a five-year-old boy who has just moved to Greenfield, Virginia, with his mother.

After a traumatic past she can’t quite piece together, Lena accepts an invitation to stay at her new boyfriend’s isolated coastal estate. The house is beautiful. Quiet. Safe. At first. But as memories slip and dreams return, Lena begins to suspect this is more than just a romantic escape — it’s a place tied to her in ways she can’t explain. And Isaac, the man who promised her comfort, may know more than he lets on. As the walls close in and forgotten truths claw their way to the surface, Lena must confront what really happened here — and what she might have done. The House That ...

When the scattered remains of a missing girl begin to surface in a town desperate to forget, one woman must unravel the truth hidden beneath decades of silence — before the past buries her too. In For Her Pain, the devastating third book of the For Her Silence series by psychological suspense author Ava Rowens, pain isn’t just remembered — it’s inherited. Returning to a town that turned its back on her once already, the unnamed narrator must confront the ghosts stitched into the very soil she walks on. With buried voices clawing their way back to the surface, and the town’s ...

When Mara Winters returns to her childhood home after her estranged mother’s death, she expects silence. Instead, she finds it wired—full of tapes, signals, and secrets. The basement is colder than she remembers. The VHS tapes she uncovers aren’t just documenting hauntings; they’re creating them. And the experiments her mother left behind weren’t meant to communicate with the dead—they were meant to train something to wear the living. In HAUNTED WHISPERS, the fourth book in the Haunted Truth series, Mara has gone off the grid, offline and alone, her ghost-hunting vlog abandoned....

Aaron Decker's life changes one December morning when his wife, Allison, is killed. Haunted by her absence - and her ghost - Aaron goes through her belongings, where he finds a receipt for a motel room in another part of the country. Piloted by grief and an increasing sense of curiosity, Aaron embarks on a journey to discover what Allison had been doing in the weeks prior to her death.

WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU LIED? The first lie: MONSTERS DON’T EXIST. When the body of a man is discovered in the Boston Common, Martina finds herself entering a horrific nightmare. She discovers evidence of the unimaginable: the resurgence of ancient methods of persecution being carried out by a Puritan-indoctrinated serial killer who believes the devil walks among us. The second lie: YOU WOULD KNOW A MONSTER IF YOU SAW ONE. After the first victim is dismissed as gang-related, Martina fears there is more to the murder than meets the eye. Her instincts are soon proven correct when another...

In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis' parents and load him into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except there's no window. And outside his door are other doors, behind which are other kids with special talents - telekinesis and telepathy - who got to this place the same way Luke did: Kalisha, Nick, George, Iris, and 10-year-old Avery Dixon.

Before then her bedroom was a dark, windowless cellar, her activities confined to cooking and cleaning. She'd grown used to being maltreated by the Songoli family - to being a slave. She's never been outside, doesn't know how to read or write, and cannot speak English. At least that's what the Songolis believe. But Muna is far cleverer - and her plans more terrifying - than the Songolis or anyone else can ever imagine....

Ethan Dove’s family has moved to a new home in a safe community, and it’s exactly the fresh start they need. Not only is his marriage to Emma hanging by a thread, but his son, Dylan, and twelve-year-old daughter, Rose, deserve to have a happy childhood. After Rose is bullied by the boys across the road, Ethan is relieved when the woman who lives next door steps in. Fiona Smith has come into their lives at just the right moment, and when she offers to look after Rose during the school holidays, Ethan and Emma can’t believe their luck.

What could be worse than being abducted, tormented, tortured? Finding out that the man you thought was sweet and kind is in fact a sadistic psycho? Who not only wants to make you suffer unendurable agony, but the ultimate goal is to eat you. This is the situation facing Amy. Her kind, caring nature leads to her downfall as she attempts to help someone she perceives as in need. Her world descends into a black pit of despair as she finds herself trapped in a cellar with four other young women. Each of them has a tale of unrelenting agony and torture to tell, a story so horrific it is the ...

Leah was unemployed, broke, and desperate. A few years earlier, a fatal car crash took the lives of Leah’s beloved husband and their two babies, leaving her disabled. Life looked bleak. Then she met Mason. He was charming, charismatic, persuasive, and a successful businessman, well respected in the community. His teenage daughter did nothing to welcome Leah into the family, but life is never perfect. And the nightmares began the day the dog died… Two years into her second marriage, Leah Brand’s world is turned upside down. Inanimate objects move, her clothes are left out for the ...