Psychological Horror

What if the most dangerous voice in your head... wasn't your own? Elena Rodriguez is a struggling actress desperate enough to accept an unusual role: become the public stand-in for Catalina Anderson, a reclusive bestselling author who never appears in public. The job pays exceptionally well and seems straightforward—master Catalina's mannerisms, make carefully selected appearances, and maintain absolute discretion. But something sinister lurks beneath the surface of this arrangement. As Elena begins experiencing vivid memories she never lived and thoughts that don't feel like her own, she...

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 ...

Murderous greed. Shambling corpses. Depraved behavior... It's time for more Twisted Tales. From the far reaches of space, all the way back into shadow-filled closets. This volume of terror and suspense stories has you covered. Have you ever wondered what you might do if you stumbled across a stash of hidden loot? Ever imagine what crimes you would commit to keep it all to yourself? Wonder no longer, and read three horrifying examples of "What if?" right here and now. Also included is a second tale from the Vampire Zombie Ghost Club, for any of the less squeamish readers out there.

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.

Victoria McQueen has an uncanny knack for finding things: a misplaced bracelet, a missing photograph, answers to unanswerable questions. When she rides her bicycle over the rickety old covered bridge in the woods near her house, she always emerges in the places she needs to be. Vic doesn't tell anyone about her unusual ability, because she knows no one will believe her. She has trouble understanding it herself.

Constance Veritas was supposed to be my fresh start, but instead, I found a town haunted by shadows and secrets. As I unravel the dark history that grips this place, I’m drawn to Sebastian, a man who seems to understand the darkness within me. Together, we confront an ancient curse that threatens to consume us both. But as the line between love and sacrifice blurs, I realize the true cost of breaking the curse. Now, I must face the darkness within myself and decide what I’m willing to lose to save the ones I love.

Matt Evans is in deep trouble. After taking a loan he should never have taken, his debt to local thug, Jeff Holden, has spiraled out of control. Just when it seems that time has run out, Jeff offers an alternative deal. Matt is to assist a scientist with his secret experiments to clear the debt. Despite his attempts to see the deal through, Matt soon realizes he’s trapped in a nightmare. The scientist has a dark agenda and a twisted mind that become more apparent with every visit to the underground lab. With his sanity on the line and possibly his life, Matt must escape at any cost, but ...

Sometimes silence screams the loudest. In The Hollow Room and Other Terrors, eight chilling tales plunge readers into shadowed corridors, haunted lakes, collapsing realities, and the rooms no one should enter. Each story is a descent into psychological and supernatural dread, where the things we forget—or bury—always return. In Silent Running, a man awakens alone in a sunken submarine, his only companions the ghosts of a drowned crew—and they’ve been waiting for him. The Silver Vein leads a group of teens into a desert mine that should have remained sealed, where the dark runs ...

BECKON is a collection of three short stories that occur in the presence of an ancient entity of horror and awe known as Kythog. Though these stories span different characters and experiences over half a century, they are all intertwined to detail the path of humans affected by Kythog. First on a subconscious level, then a mortal one, and at last, a glimmer of hope in a sea of ruin and despair.

Vindecker A Gothic Tale of Science, Obsession, and Redemption In the shadow of Victor Frankenstein’s infamous experiments, another mind toils just down the road—one less celebrated, but no less consumed. Dr. Oswald Vindecker is a respected Victorian-era physician, brilliant and admired. But behind the doors of Vindecker Manor, he conducts a series of secret experiments—straining the limits of life and death, and the boundaries of morality. As he recruits prisoners, outcasts, and even those closest to him for his twisted tests, Oswald’s obsession grows—and so does the cost. Told ...

After thirty-four years in the same weatherworn farmhouse on Dagger Lane, Tommy Hearst thought he knew every creak and whisper the old place could conjure. But when he uncovers a rotting corpse sealed behind wallpaper and hears his dead mother's voice carved into mirrors, he realizes the house isn't haunted—it's alive. As the walls breathe and whisper secrets long buried, Tommy is pulled into a horrifying family legacy—one bound in blood, sealed with silence, and broken by his very birth. Something ancient stirs beneath the floorboards. Something that has been waiting. Watching. ...

The house counts its own tenants... When estranged siblings inherit a rotting boarding house on the edge of Bleak Hollow, they unlock more than a forgotten family secret—they awaken a place where pain is play, and guilt is gourmet. There are thirteen rooms… but only twelve keys. And the thirteenth? It opens when it wants, and it remembers everything. Within its walls live demons who don’t want your soul—they want your worst memory, your deepest shame, and the moment you almost let someone die. They’ll drag it out of you again and again… and sometimes, they’ll wear your face ...

The RATS were the first sign. If only they would listen. Maggie De Luca recently relocated to New York. Working as a medical detective in her new position, she is called in to investigate a mysterious death. The red rings on the lungs were alarming enough, but then she hears the word plague. Now, the clock is ticking. And the death count is rising. Maggie tries to trace the origin of the disease, but is always one step behind. Then she starts seeing things...the victims...reaching out from the grave. But ghosts aren’t real, right? Meanwhile... Microbiologist Michael Harbinger believes he ...

Alice shouldn’t have opened this book, but she did. Some novels want to be read. THE BOOK demands it. Hidden in a dusty box for years, a plain, green book is mailed to the library of a psychiatric hospital. It is sentient. It watches. It listens and manipulates. Dr Alice Grant is understaffed. One patient away from burnout, THE BOOK wants her. She’s special, but she’s not the only one. Her patients—especially a fragmented Dissociative Identity Disorder collective—fixate on the book, each headmate experiencing devastating horrors. In this fusion of horror and psychological intrigue...

★A spine-chilling techno-thriller novella. For those who like their minds bent.★ Five went up the mountains. None returned. And it wasn’t the cold or the climb that killed them. At fifteen thousand feet, an army rescue operation finds buried underneath snow dunes five trekkers, dead in their campsite. One of the dead is Indian movie star Kirti Pandit. Another is her boyfriend, and the rest are her entourage. No one can say how they died. It could’ve been due to intense cold, perhaps the sudden snowstorm, or merely altitude sickness. Only, their symptoms were unusual. The snowfall ...

WARNING: The children of Oakhaven are not dreaming. They are rehearsing. Jack Tierney is a ghost haunting his own life, shattered by his wife’s murder two years prior. He seeks refuge in the suffocating silence of decaying Oakhaven. But the silence is about to scream. It starts with Alex, a neighborhood boy plagued by nightmares of "Mr. Murk," a whispering entity that tells terrible secrets. Then the bodies start falling—staged accidents, broken dolls left behind. Jack, a former detective, sees the pattern the police refuse to acknowledge. He sees the symbol—an eye stitched shut—...

When the lights go out and the slideshow begins, middle manager Jennifer has a disturbing vision: a headless colleague right across the boardroom table. Is it a trick of the light, or a vision of the future? She tries to brush it off and salvage the afternoon—but when her ex unexpectedly drops off her son at the office after school, suddenly her whole world takes an alarming turn.

One spaceship could save humanity—or destroy it. Life aboard a massive starship seems boundless for Lune, a young inventor with a knack for bending the rules. But when she encounters a passenger on the brink of death, her world plunges into uncertainty. Time is ticking, the passenger is dying, and there are no doctors left aboard—except for the ship itself. Lune sets out on a desperate mission to get help from the ship, but soon finds herself unearthing secrets that will determine the fate of all those aboard. "A captivating read that offers both thrilling entertainment and deeper ...

MEMORIES BECOME THE MOST DANGEROUS WEAPON WHEN YOU CAN'T TRUST YOUR OWN. Willow Harper has been charged with the brutal murder of her friends. But confined to Bordeaux Behavioral Hospital with no recollection of that tragic night, she is left questioning her own innocence. Public defender Donovan Thomas takes on her case, determined to get to the truth. But Willow's convenient amnesia raises more questions than answers. Why can't she recall any details? And why does it seem like she's hiding something? But to comprehend Willow's unstable grip on reality means confronting the cracks in his ...

They Never Left When disgraced journalist Rex Mallory returns to the small town of Whisper Ridge, he expects rust, rumors, and a few ghosts from his past. What he doesn’t expect is a missing woman, a mutilated corpse, and the burned remains of a notebook that points to decades of disappearances. As Mallory digs deeper, he uncovers chilling whispers of an abandoned asylum, a preacher with too many secrets, and a sheriff who doesn’t take kindly to questions. Every lead pulls him closer to a horrifying truth buried beneath the town’s sleepy surface—one the townspeople are willing to ...