Psychological Horror Thriller

Answering an ad for a job as live-in tutor to a teenage boy, Christopher Beal arrives at the big, old house deep in the woods with no idea what he’s getting into. His pupil is Lawrence Lundy, an odd boy who practices strange rituals by moonlight and is haunted – perhaps literally – by the spirit of his dead father. For mysterious reasons, his mother, Juliet, keeps him at home, isolated from the world. During the suffocating heat of a long summer, Christopher finds himself entangled in the madness of this strange household and must uncover a deadly secret before it’s too late...

Er kennt deine tiefsten Kindheitsängste. Ein rätselhafter Patient zieht den jungen Psychiater Parker H. in seinen Bann. Seit dem sechsten Lebensjahr wird der mittlerweile 30-jährige Mann, den alle nur "Joe" nennen, in der düsteren Nervenheilanstalt in Neuengland verwahrt. Er gilt als nicht therapierbar. Jeder, der mit ihm spricht, verliert den Verstand oder begeht Selbstmord. Allen Warnungen zum Trotz beschließt der ehrgeizige Parker, "Joe" in seiner Zelle zu besuchen.

Prof. Jeffrey Cole and his three young assistants ventured deep into the dark backwoods Appalachian mountains of Northern Georgia to study the effects of a mad, itinerant preacher, Father Divine, and his fanatical religious cult on the mountain people there. It had been 100 years since the crazed preacher and his true believers terrorized and murdered the people on Salvation Mountain, before they disappeared into the night. But all of that religious madness was long in the past. Wasn't it?

Una de las colecciones de cuentos de terror más perturbadoras y únicas de lo que va de siglo. Relatos que abordan temas tan horrendos como hermanos asesinos, marionetas que cobran vida, casas que mutan a voluntad, parques de atracciones que encierran repugnantes secretos, pesadillas que estiran sus tentáculos más allá del sueño y, en definitiva, la gran pregunta que encierra toda buena historia de terror: ¿qué nos diferencia de los monstruos?

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.

Have you ever overheard a conversation and felt frustrated it had been cut short before hearing its outcome? These stories take the bones of unfinished conversations and give them a life of their own. No ordinary conclusions come from these re-imagined events....

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.

In this mind-bending twist of events, Benjamin Brinkley, a New York Times best-selling author, experiences a most horrifying duel with death after purchasing a typewriter at a local bookstore. Benjamin quickly realizes the machine was typing the chapters of his novel on its own. Not only was the malicious gadget typing by itself, the events from the manuscript came to life, threatening and snuffing out the lives of friends and foes alike.

To his mother, Angelo is the most beautiful and brilliant child in the world. She caters to his every whim and dismisses his malicious outbursts as childish pranks. But as Angelo grows older, his behavior only becomes more disturbing. A pet dog disappears. A playground run-in leaves one of his teachers with a broken arm. His father and his aunt, however, have begun to suspect that behind Angelo's cherubic smile lurks a dark and twisted monster who preys on the innocent. But how do they reveal Angelo's true nature before it's too late?

In this thrilling novel by Van Allen, a young couple hopes to rekindle their flailing relationship in a remote mountain cabin. Their get-away from the city quickly turns into a desperate fight for survival when they run into a vicious killing machine, a natural predator.

Widow and single mother Rebecca Noland wants nothing more than to rekindle the passion with her overworked fiancé, Detective Dan Slaviche. Expecting to surprise him by slipping into his apartment before he comes home from work, her curiosity gets the best of her when she discovers the key to unlock his desktop. What she finds there is a nightmare that sends her, along with her seven-year-old son, running for their lives.

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

In the wake of her father's death, Betty Roux doesn't allow herself to mourn. Instead, she pushes away her mother, breaks up with her boyfriend, and leaves everything behind to move to New York City. She doesn't know what she wants, except to run. When she's offered the chance to play the leading role in mysterious indie filmmaker Anthony Marino's new project, she jumps at the opportunity.

The Dean Wilson Theatre is believed to be haunted by a long-dead actress, singing her last song, waiting for her final cue, looking for her killer. Now Dust, the iconic musical, is returning after 20 years. But who will be brave enough to take on the role of ghostly goddess Esme Black, last played by Morgan Miller, who was murdered in her dressing room? Theatre usher Chloe Dee is caught up in the spectacle. As the new actors arrive, including an unexpected face from her past, everything changes. Are the eerie sounds and sightings backstage real or just her imagination?

A boy looked in a window, to see a naughty show. Through the pane of pain, the master clown did blow. The circus is a holy tent, the keeper of my rhyme. Where I forged my chains, creating this pantomime. Pretending to be normal, I wait until after dark. Then I paint the frown on, get a whore from the park. At the bottom of that bed was a darling in a chest. She watched with big eyes, horror hooking her from rest.

The Nightingale House is a new beginning for widower Daniel Price and his young daughter, Caitlyn. After months of grief, this will be the place where they start their life as a family of two. But something is wrong - Daniel can’t settle. There’s an odd, cold feeling in the master bedroom, and a mysterious dripping noise that seems to move from room to room. Whispers of I can’t sleep echo through the corridors, long into the night.

Bliźniaczki Sybillę i Sabinę łączy silna, ale też skomplikowana relacja oparta na dominacji, podporządkowaniu oraz wytworzonym przez nie w dzieciństwie prywatnym, niezrozumiałym dla otoczenia języku. Gdy skryta, chorobliwie nieśmiała Sabina zaczyna się stopniowo uniezależniać od siostry, odważna i władcza Sybilla coraz bardziej pogrąża się w chaotycznym świecie, pełnym niepokojących zjawisk oraz tajemniczych, przerażających wizji. Przekroczenie pewnej niepisanej granicy nieuchronnie prowadzi do tragedii.

Donna Pryor lives in the lap of luxury. She spends her days in a beautifully appointed condo. Her every whim is catered to by a dedicated staff, and she does not want for anything. Except for news of her adult daughter. Or an ex-husband who takes her calls. Donna knows something is wrong, but she can't quite put her finger on it. As her life of privilege starts to feel more and more like a prison, the facade she has depended on begins to crumble. Somewhere in the ruins is the truth, and the closer Donna Pryor gets to it, the more likely it is to destroy her.