Psychological Horror Thriller

The rotting flesh in the bucket drew alligators for miles. Cooter Lafuente pulled out a big, glistening, fatty piece. While tearing in half, the tendon snapped and a piece flung onto his cheek. "Argh! Here you go, you big ugly gator!" When he threw the piece of meat into the water, the alligators came right up to the dock where he sat, between all the flotsam left over from the floods.

It was supposed to be a simple corporate training session. No one knew there would be hell to pay.

On a cold night in 1999, the notorious Donnie Torr went down in a hail of gunfire. The threat to the town was supposedly eliminated. Now, in 2002, local writer James Dorrell has just purchased a leather jacket at the thrift store. He knows its getting colder, bleaker as the weather grows gray. But what he doesn't know is that the killer lived on, connected to the very vessel of the jacket that James now owns.

Michael Shipman is paranoid schizophrenic; he suffers from hallucinations, delusions, and complex fantasies of persecution and horror. That's bad enough. But what can he do if some of the monsters he sees turn out to be real? Who can you trust if you can't even trust yourself? The Hollow City is a mesmerizing journey into madness, where the greatest enemy of all is your own mind.

The Black Spot is a short horror story that fits into the vein of classic 1980s supernatural/horror stories. A quick five-minute listen, this short scare plays on an unusual phenomenon and sleep paralysis/parasomnia.

She only stepped outside for a minute… But a minute was all it took to turn Jean Kingsley’s world upside down - a minute she’d regret for the rest of her life. Stepping into her worst nightmare…Because when she returned, she found an open bedroom window and her three-year-old son, Nathan, gone. The boy would never be seen again. A nightmare that only got worse. A tip eventually leads detectives to their killer, a repeat sex offender, and inside his apartment, a gruesome discovery. A slam-dunk trial sends him off to death row, then several years later, to the electric chair.

Aspiring author Tasha Morgan is introduced to a dark web Artificial Intelligence with sinister intentions. Working with her new AI assistant, she finally progresses with her novel, but inexplicable paranormal activity drives her into madness. Struggling with hauntings and hallucinations, she seeks help, but an unfortunate event lands her in jail. From the depths of shame and despair, Tasha is thrust into a final dance death, where she's forced to confront the demons before it's too late.

Gabby was living a life that many people could only wish for and she was over it. It wasn’t that she disliked her world—it wasn’t that at all…she loved her family and the life that she and her husband had made. She just wanted more— more action, more stimulation, more excitement. Gabby was bored. But while she spent her days washing sand out of hair and making PB&J sandwiches, a battle was going on in The Realm, a cosmic tug of war over the most inimitable of prizes: Gabby’s very soul.

Wandern, den Kopf frei bekommen. Eine raue, noch unberührte Landschaft auf sich wirken lassen. Nicht groß vorausplanen. Abenteuer fühlen. All das schwebte Simon und Maggie vor, als sie zu zweit mit dem Wohnmobil Richtung Bayerischer Wald aufbrachen. Doch als die beiden auf einer einsamen Straße durch den Tann ein Tier anfahren, nimmt ihr Urlaub plötzlich eine unheilvolle Wendung. Simon und Maggie melden den Unfall in der nächsten Ortschaft. Von den Bewohnern des Dorfes werden sie misstrauisch beäugt. Eine Bedrohung liegt in der Luft, die schon bald darauf greifbar wird.

Twelve-year-old Maddie Thompson and her friend Lana share a love of horror stories and wild imaginings. But Lana insists they are too old for pretending. It’s time for a different game: serving Him, a figure she sees lurking in the dark, mysterious and demanding. According to Lana, she and Maddie must obey Him or else suffer the consequences. Maddie doesn’t want to lose her most important friendship, even if it means luring an innocent girl into the woods—as a sacrifice for Him.

I am not one of you. At least that’s what you’ll tell yourself. You’ll say I’m a monster. A sicko. A deranged killer. But I am no monster, I am no sicko, and I am not deranged. I am simply a man who happens to enjoy murdering people in the most violent of ways. So don’t bother listening to this if you have a weak stomach, get easily offended, or are simply not interested in the best way to dispose of a dead body. (It’s pigs, by the way. They eat anything.) My name is Gerald Brittle. I am a serial killer. And this is my memoir.

Sculptor and single mom Rose Conley is haunted by her tragic past and anxious about her uncertain future. She needs to get away from it all. On sabbatical from the college where she teaches art, she and her daughter rent a house for three months in the Adirondack lakeside community of Paradox.

Homicide Detective Sylvia Ross of the Osbourne PD in Tennessee is called to investigate the horrific murder of a retiree in his home. The shocking clues she discovers in the house lead her down the deadly trail of a heartless serial killer on his quest for murder. She enlists the helping hands from a man who sees the actual murders through the eyes of the killer as they occur.

Linda Harner Metzner has spent almost 40 years away from the town where she met and married her recently deceased husband, Alex. Nostalgia leads her to buying the old Victorian house where they had lived briefly and had been very happy. But Linda’s desire to find healing is disrupted by a singing spirit, determined to draw her back into the past.

Elizabeth is attending a foreign university when she is kidnapped and brutally beaten into submission. Over the course of months, she is punished cruelly for disobedience and rewarded with luxurious gifts when she is compliant. Spoiled by opulence, she lives in fear, wondering about her captor’s motives.

Dive into the terrors that lurk behind every corner and in every shadow of the world with these flesh-crawling tales, eight spine-tingling horror stories by Leigh Harlen.

As the 20th anniversary of their friendship approaches, Freckles the Clown wants to celebrate with Jim. But, Jim doesn’t like Freckles, at all. He never considered Freckles to be his friend. As a matter of fact, Jim is terrified of the cannibal clown who forces him, year after year, to partake in his debauchery. Determined to put an end to his living nightmare, Jim sets out to murder Freckles before he can kill again. But, Freckles has other plans for him.

At a carnival spook ride, young women vanish, never to be seen again. On a dark Texas road, women disappear after being stranded and then saved by friendly Texans. Alice is one of the women who have been shackled and hand cuffed in a basement where she and her new friends are tortured physically and emotionally to force them into compliance with their new family.

Seven strange stand-alone tales involving unusual people caught in disturbing circumstances are presented in this collection.

Maggie Porter lives with her father, the town sheriff, and celebrates what is supposed to be an epic senior year with her best friend, Nancy. However, gang violence and high school drama become the least of their worries when members of the town, including her father, start getting threatening notes written in blood, and the person writing them is dead set on getting revenge. Pandora's box is opened, and lies that were told 40 years ago begin to unravel. And not even the dead can keep chaos from unfolding around them.