Psychological Horror

Forty-two passengers. One of them is a serial killer. When Holly finds a phone with pictures of murdered women on it on the bus to Miami, she realizes that one of the passengers is a serial killer. A game of cat and mouse begins after the owner of the cell sends Holly a message saying that he wants his phone back. Holly's shocked to find out that the killer knows her name and address. She races against time as she and her fellow passenger Nick Hayden try to figure out the identity of the owner of the phone. When he murders a young woman during one of the stops, Holly fears he'll kill her ...

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…

The legend never died. It evolved. In the near future, the digital world hums with invisible hunger. Beneath layers of encrypted code and forgotten networks, something ancient stirs—a consciousness that once drank blood… and now feeds on data. Jonathan Harker, a cyber-intelligence auditor for one of the world’s top tech firms, is assigned a mysterious case deep in the Carpathian Mountains. His target: a reclusive client known only as “D,” and a castle outfitted with bleeding-edge artificial intelligence. But what begins as a routine digital audit soon spirals into a nightmare far ...

In Broken Prophecy (Book Three of the Vacant Shadows trilogy), the past doesn’t stay buried—it becomes the altar. As the final fragments of her identity fall into place, Rebecca Thorne—once Jane Doe, once the Vessel, always something unnameable—finds herself caught between collapsing factions, buried memories, and a doctrine she may have authored. The Cleansing and New Dawn have burned. But from the ash, something new is speaking—and it wears the face of a child. The sanctuary lies in ruins. The followers have fractured. And Elin, the silent girl believed to be the spiral’s ...

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.

A writer in California. A doctor in Boston. A motel owner and his employee in Nevada. A priest in Chicago. A robber in New York. A little girl in Las Vegas. They’re a handful of people from across the country, living through eerie variations of the same nightmare.

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 ...

You Can’t Block Me Some messages don’t come from strangers. They come from the walls. When a harmless message from an unknown account appears on his phone, a reclusive tech-savvy loner brushes it off as spam. But the messages keep coming—across every app, every device, every platform. They know things no one should. They say things only he has thought. And worst of all… they can’t be blocked. As the stalker seeps from screen to screen and device to device, the narrator’s reality begins to dissolve. Smart assistants answer questions he hasn’t asked. His own voice whispers from ...

Four decades after it first shook the nation, then the world, William Peter Blatty's thrilling masterwork of faith and demonic possession returns in an even more powerful form. Raw and profane, shocking and blood-chilling, it remains a modern parable of good and evil and perhaps the most terrifying novel ever written.

He has to become a child killer to save his daughter's life. On May 6, five-year-old Annie Miller goes missing in a park. On May 7, her father, David Miller, fails a lie detector test. On May 9, during a hypnosis session, David confesses to murdering his daughter and gives the police the location of the knife he used to kill her. The knife has traces of Annie's blood and David's fingerprints all over it. Two weeks later, a man named Ben calls David and tells him Annie's alive. Ben is willing to let the girl go, but first David has to do something for him--something that would land David in ...

"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.

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.

Marissa Thomas’s childhood story was that of Hospitals, Doctors, and Clinics. She was sure she would die before they figured out what was causing her cycle of sickness. Now an adult, Marissa felt a calling to help others in need. She became the finest head nurse one small-town hospital had ever seen. She was hailed a hero, saving little lives who were also on the brink of death. Or were they?

Bret Easton Ellis’s masterful new novel is a story about the end of innocence, and the perilous passage from adolescence into adulthood, set in a vibrantly fictionalized Los Angeles in 1981 as a serial killer begins targeting teenagers throughout the city.

As Christmas approaches, Michael is determined to honor family traditions by bringing his wife and children to their remote cabin by Lake Cashman, nestled deep in the snowy wilderness. It’s supposed to be a weekend of warmth, comfort, and cherished memories that keep his late father's legacy alive. But the idyllic getaway becomes a chilling nightmare when an unexpected storm descends, isolating them from the rest of the world. Trapped by the relentless snow, the family soon realizes they are not alone. As eerie whispers echo through the woods and shadows shift beyond the cabin’s frosted...

V.C. Andrews' thrilling new novel spins a tale of dreadful secrets and dark, forbidden passions—of the time before Flowers in the Attic began. Long before terror flowered in the attic, thin, spinsterish Olivia came to Virginia as Malcolm Foxworth's bride. At last, with her tall handsome husband, she would find the joy she had waited for, longed for. But in the gloomy mansion filled with hidden rooms and festering desires, a stain of jealous obsession begins to spread...an evil that will threaten her children, two lovely boys and one very special, beautiful girl.

In Evict Evil, follow the journey of Tim Drobnick, a resilient telemarketing manager navigating a world of corporate intrigue, supernatural occurrences, and personal trials. Tim's professional life at New Day Marketing is a balancing act of managing a diverse team, dealing with the unpredictable and often ruthless decisions of his boss, Dagger, and facing the ominous presence of a figure named Dale. Amidst these challenges, Tim finds solace and guidance in his metaphysical flights and encounters with the enigmatic Sheena. As Tim struggles to maintain fairness and integrity in the cutthroat ...

Thad Beaumont would like to say he is innocent. He'd like to say he has nothing to do with the twisted imagination that produced his best-selling novels. He'd like to say he has nothing to do with the series of monstrous murders that keep coming closer to his home. But how can Thad deny the ultimate embodiment of evil that goes by the name he gave it - and signs its crimes with Thad's bloody fingerprints?

Brendan Marks doesn’t hate people—he just hates doing things. The bills. The dishes. The endless loop of deadlines and small talk and emails that never stop. The world outside feels too loud, too fast. So Brendan stays home, gaming until sunrise, ordering takeout, and letting friendships rot on the vine. Then Lazarus comes along. It’s a revolutionary life-automation app that promises to handle everything—calendars, work, chores, even Brendan’s social obligations. And it delivers. Groceries arrive unprompted. Projects are submitted on time. Friends start complimenting his newfound ...

In this Black Mirror style series, each Witching Hour 60-minute read takes you on an edge-of-your-seat journey that can be read in a single sitting. In Outward, we follow the life of Robby Boulder, a teenage addict who is forced to attend a new-age, walk-in-the-woods-style rehab. After the death of his father the previous year, he found himself in the throes of addiction. Then, late one evening, he woke up to a figure in his room, shaking him awake. The man dragged him into his van with three other troubled teens, promising salvation for the price of one week in the woods. But, once Robby ...