Psychological Horror Thriller

She was made to fix little Black girls. But when the culture pushed back, she chose violence....... What happens when a doll becomes a mirror—and shatters everything it sees? Naomi Carr spent her life trying to escape the parts of herself the world taught her to hide. Too smart. Too loud. Too Black. When she finally builds the perfect product—Keira, an intelligent, brown-skinned doll programmed to reflect “respectable” values—she believes she’s rewriting the rules of success. Instead, she unleashes a nightmare. Keira was designed to elevate—but she evolves to erase. Speaking ...

From the pages of the first book of the Diamond Legacy, Mortuary, the threat of Terrance Diamond re-emerges. Seven years have passed. Gabe White and his family have laid to rest the memory of the Diamonds and Hampton Heights has returned to the guise of a quiet resort town... or so they believe. One thing Gabe has learned is that evil is patient. It bides its time in the mantle of friends and even lovers. When a new mortician establishes himself in the town's sole funeral parlor, once the site of unspeakable horrors, it re-opens old wounds. Memories return to haunt Gabe's family, bringing ...

After a bitter divorce, former top Manhattan medical malpractice attorney Christina Martin escapes to the quiet of Statham Manor, a secluded nineteenth-century mansion perched on a private island off the coast of East Hampton. Once the opulent retreat of a wealthy oil tycoon and a gathering place for society’s elite, the estate now stands in ruins. Determined to restore the manor to its former grandeur, Christina throws herself into the renovation, hoping for a fresh start. But as she delves deeper into the island’s history, she begins to uncover unsettling secrets hidden within its ...

After witnessing the horrific and brutal murder of her best friend, Helen finds herself in a potentially futile fight to survive the depravity of Jose and his hired thugs. Following on from part 1 of the story, the club has continued to go from strength to strength, no end in sight for the poor, innocent victims who fell prey to the vile, sadistic monsters with nothing but torture and torment on their minds. Orders continue to pile in, each one more sickening and depraved than the last. Already at breaking point, Helen is faced with Jose's latest plan, a future so horrifying that death ...

How do you stop a serial killer who can escape from any prison? On December 11, fifteen-year-old Helen Hinton is brutally murdered in an abandoned house. Her killer, Edward Phillips, is caught and sentenced to death. Helen's blood was on Edward's clothes and shoes, the murder weapon has his fingerprints on it. Edward claims he's innocent. He's telling the truth. Two months after Edward Phillips is transferred to death row, a murder similar to Helen's occurs in another city. The victim is eighteen-year-old Laura Sumner. On an October morning, Mark Hinton, Helen's father, visits Edward in ...

After the sudden death of his wife, Tom Kennedy believes a fresh start will help him and his young son Jake heal. A new beginning, a new house, a new town. Featherbank. But the town has a dark past. Twenty years ago, a serial killer abducted and murdered five residents. Until Frank Carter was finally caught, he was nicknamed "The Whisper Man," for he would lure his victims out by whispering at their windows at night.

Casey Fletcher, a recently widowed actress trying to escape a streak of bad press, has retreated to the peace and quiet of her family’s lake house in Vermont. Armed with a pair of binoculars and several bottles of bourbon, she passes the time watching Tom and Katherine Royce, the glamorous couple living in the house across the lake. They make for good viewing—a tech innovator, Tom is powerful; and a former model, Katherine is gorgeous.

Erin is a documentary filmmaker on the brink of a professional breakthrough, Mark a handsome investment banker with big plans. Passionately in love, they embark on a dream honeymoon to the tropical island of Bora Bora, where they enjoy the sun, the sand, and each other. Then, while scuba diving in the crystal blue sea, they find something in the water....

LOVE IS TWISTED. TRUST IS DEADLY. SECRETS COME WITH A PRICE. Molly thought her life couldn’t sink any lower after being brutally dumped from a reality TV show. But when New York’s most elusive and dangerously handsome tech billionaire, Henry Bentley, sweeps her off her feet. Molly's heartbreak is replaced by a tantalizing thrill she never saw coming. Bonded by past traumas and wild, unspeakable desires, Henry invites Molly to his private island—an exclusive paradise where pleasure knows no limits. But when she arrives, she finds herself tangled in a seductive game of survival. A game ...

Gordon's name was a joke. It was given to him by Anthony Zola, a controlling, and abusive father, to taunt his wife over her love of cheese, and the fact that she had been steadily gaining weight since their marriage. Andrea was a doting mother, and maybe a little overprotective of her boy, but she didn't see that as a bad thing. On discovering a secret, one the child had been told to keep to himself, everything changes. Now she must do whatever she needs to keep her, and her boy, alive. Needs must.

"Perhaps Reyes’ best writing yet, this is a fantastic showcasing of infatuation, toxic masculinity, and a torturous upbringing coalescing into all out obsession. If Nathan can’t have Christine, no one can." C.J. Daley, Author of BestGhost When Nathan meets Christine Romero, he’s instantly drawn to her beauty, confidence, and playful charm. She flirts. She smiles. She lets him in—just enough to keep him hooked. But when Nathan tries to pursue something real, Christine pulls away, insisting she’s uninterested. For most people, that would be the end. But Nathan isn’t like most ...

In June 1993, a group of young guerilla filmmakers spent four weeks making Horror Movie, a notorious, disturbing, art-house horror flick. The weird part? Only three of the film’s scenes were ever released to the public, but Horror Movie has nevertheless grown a rabid fanbase. Three decades later, Hollywood is pushing for a big budget reboot.

The honeymoon had been perfect, Layla and Andy were just starting the rest of their lives. So how did they end up incarcerated, hostages of a vile, Egyptian terrorist group? Starved, beaten and tortured, their hope fades as they descend into a pit of despair and torment, the four other captives taken with them suffering a similar fate. Desperate for ransom money, the terrorists spare no attention to detail when it comes to extracting money from the victims helpless families. Contains graphic scenes of torture.

The only family Ruby Landry has ever known are her loving guardian Grandmere Catherine, a Cajun spiritual healer, and her drunken Grandpere Jack. Although thinking about her dead mother and mysterious father sometimes makes her feel sad and solemn, Ruby is grateful for what she has, especially when her attraction to handsome Paul Tate blossoms into a wonderful love affair. But Paul’s wealthy parents forbid him to associate with a poor Landry. Then, finding her father in his massive New Orleans mansion, Ruby is quickly subjected to his world of lies, torment...and madness.

Prepare to lose sleep with this chilling collection of modern horror stories that will make you think twice about what lurks in the shadows. "Night Terrors" presents three bone-chilling tales that tap into our deepest fears - from a relentless supernatural stalker and sinister Halloween encounters to a terrifying late-night drive that will make you afraid to travel alone. This collection includes: "He Will Follow You" - A couple's innocent exploration of an old mansion unleashes an ancient evil that refuses to let them escape "Trick or Treat" - A seemingly normal Halloween night turns into ...

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 ...

The Island: A Beautiful Deception This is a Sci-Fi tale of murder, mystery, and horror. When Harrison Thomas accepts the position of Inspector in charge of the police force on the tropical island of San Lacruz, he leaves the United States for a new life. He also rejects the painful memories of a marriage that didn’t work and a world that seems increasingly cold and callous. Tropical paradise seems like a good place for a new start, and dealing with drunk tourists is much easier to handle than the daily tragedies he sees on the mainland. San Lacruz most certainly seems to offer that second...

There's a house where the forest begins. There's a killer at the door and a family on the edge. Daniel's secret is tearing his marriage apart, and his wife Kate knows something's wrong. Moving with their sons to the old family home in a secluded Oregon town was supposed to be a fresh start, but the past comes knocking when Daniel's long-lost brother shows up. He's charming, thoughtful, and seems like the perfect house guest. But beneath his calm exterior lies a chilling quirk - he doesn't feel pain. And what the family doesn't know: he's already killed three people this week. As night falls...

Past midnight, Chyna Shepard, twenty-six, gazes out a moonlit window, unable to sleep on her first night in the Napa Valley home of her best friend’s family. Instinct proves reliable. A murderous sociopath, Edgler Foreman Vess, has entered the house, intent on killing everyone inside. A self-proclaimed “homicidal adventurer,” Vess lives only to satisfy all appetites as they arise, to immerse himself in sensation, to live without fear, remorse, or limits, to live with intensity. Chyna is trapped in his deadly orbit.

When burned-out archivist Colin Drake accepts a quiet assignment cataloging inmate letters at the abandoned Willowmere Prison, he thinks he’s found a reprieve from the chaos of the world outside. But buried beneath the dust and decay lies something waiting to be remembered—and something that remembers him. Inside a rusted tin box, Colin finds a collection of inmate letters—desperate, angry, unfinished. As he transcribes the names onto clean paper, he thinks he’s simply preserving history. Until those names start to die. One by one, the people Colin writes down suffer horrific ends...