Psychological Horror Thriller

After losing her young son in a tragic accident, Eve struggles to protect the one child she has left, a teenage daughter who just might be pure evil. The dark side of magic is where the Ragman dwells. Nobody knows that better than Eve. Desperate for a child, she called on that cunning conjurer eighteen years ago. Her daughter, Abbey, was the result.

Ten strangers, recruited by an edgy new reality show and marooned on an abandoned island overrun by wildlife. One dies in a horrible accident. Nine realize they are all past survivors, alive only because they've beaten incredible odds once before. One by one, their hidden secrets are revealed. Eight discover they are trapped. Caught in a game so deadly that the most terrifying experiences of their lives were only its qualifying round, they must now face the greatest danger on the island... each other.

Serial killer Martin Campbell has planted his seed within her now, one he hopes will grow stronger and be nurtured by her to it’s full maturity. She can feel it coursing through her veins like a runaway train, her adrenaline pumping now as well, as she descends the dirt path behind their condo and into the darkness of the ghostly tree line. He will follow close behind her - only to make sure she is an apt pupil - but not too close, doesn’t want to throw off her concentration. After tonight, though, she will be on her own.

When she was just fourteen, Jill’s family moved to Walney Island. Initially intoxicated by the freedom of the seaside setting—and fifteen-year-old Andrew Brownstone—she came to learn that her first impressions were very wrong. After making a shocking discovery in Seaview House, Jill fled the scene—a guilty secret she’s carried with her ever since. Now, thirty years later, when the decrepit Seaview House is being demolished, a body is found buried in the garden. But who is the deceased?

Twenty years ago, three young women disappeared, never to be found. The rumour to this day is that their bodies are still hidden deep within the murky Loch Aven. When Eleanor, Clio and Michaela find themselves rained out of a camping trip in the Scottish countryside, they have no option but to book the mysterious house nestled on the banks of the lake. But little do they know that history has a way of repeating itself. As secrets in the tightknit community begin to surface, and Michaela suddenly disappears, it becomes clear that something sinister is at play.

On the death of her aunt Gwyn, Lowri returns once more to Gwyn’s home on the remote island of Anglesey, Wales, with young daughter Ruby in tow. Lowri hadn’t seen her aunt in years, but this beautiful island offers a fresh start. Yet right away, strange things begin to happen. Ruby insists an old woman is visiting her when no one else is watching, and a tattered old doll keeps being left for Ruby to find. Then Ruby goes missing. Desperately seeking answers no one seems to have, Lowri looks to her dark family past for clues.

What should have been a breeze of a bank heist for James Glenn and his crew goes violently wrong, forcing them to flee, blood-stained and angry. They stumble onto a remote lodge that doesn’t open for another month—a perfect place to lie low until the heat’s off.

Tragedy strikes Lone Oak in the form of a dead girl, and it’s just the beginning.

Lauren Stafford, a traumatized divorcee, decides to rent a cottage on the edge of a beautiful ancestral estate in the Welsh Marches. But from the very first day of arrival she instinctively knows there's something terribly wrong here—something malevolent and ancient—a feeling the whole place is trapped in a time warp. She really ought to leave. But the pull of the lake is too strong, its dark magic so powerful it crosses over into dreams . . . turning them into nightmares. What lies beneath its still black surface? And why can't Lauren drag herself away? Why her? And why now?

Er liebt Glas, weil es so wandelbar ist. Wunderschön und doch kann es hässlich sein. In einer Wunde zum Beispiel. In Havannas Hitze wird ein schwer verletztes Mädchen an einem touristisch sehr beliebten Ort aufgefunden. In ihrem Körper stecken Glasscherben, aus ihren Schulterblättern ragen gläserne Flügel. So wirkt sie wie ein gefallener Engel. Kurz darauf stirbt sie einen qualvollen Tod vor den Augen ihres Vaters. Er ist Mitarbeiter der amerikanischen Botschaft auf Kuba. Nur wenige Tage später verschwindet eine weitere Diplomatentochter.

"Verschwinde von dieser Insel, Mädchen, solange du es noch kannst!". Im Nachlass ihres Vaters entdeckt Hanna einen rätselhaften Schlüssel und ein vergilbtes Foto vom Borkumer Wattenmeer, in dem vor siebzehn Jahren ihre Mutter ertrank. Auf der Rückseite stehen die Buchstaben KLLT – mit Blut geschrieben. In der Überzeugung, dass es sich um eine verschlüsselte Botschaft handelt, reist Hanna auf die ostfriesische Insel und stößt auf ein dunkles Geheimnis, das mit ihrer Kindheit verwoben ist.

Ein junger Krankenpfleger wird entsetzlich entstellt in seiner Wohnung aufgefunden. Der Täter hat ihm die Augen ausgehöhlt, die Zunge abgeschnitten und die Ohren durchbohrt. Bei der Leiche wird ein Teil einer alten Milchtüte gefunden, auf der die Vermisstenanzeige eines vierjährigen Mädchens abgebildet ist. Mit der Hand wurde dort eine Botschaft hinterlassen: "Happy Independence Day 1995. Washington Park. Erinnerst du dich, Howard."

Unzählige Frauen verschwinden seit Jahrzehnten entlang des Highway of Tears. Viele von ihnen wurden getötet, die Dunkelziffer laut Amnesty International allerdings ist viel höher. Bisher deuten die Ermittlungen darauf hin, dass es sich nicht um einen einzigen Serienkiller handeln kann, da die Zeitspanne zu groß ist. Als ein fünfzehnjähriges Mädchen spurlos verschwindet, nimmt sich FBI-Agent Howard Caspar dem Fall an. Die Ereignisse, denen er auf der Spur ist, sind unfassbar und stellen seine Wertvorstellung auf den Kopf.

Anna’s project is due today, but one more day to work on it would really help. At least, until she notices shadows flickering. Anna begins the day again in class. Through shadows shifting to become something else, she becomes trapped in a haunted house while searching for one of her friends. In another reality, she stays at a hotel with her friends during a storm as a nightmare unfolds. Join Anna for a scary tale of adventure through multiple realities!

Edgar Allan Poe proposed that “the boundary line between instinct and reason is of a very shadowy nature” (1840). With its 21 stories of serial killers and sociopaths, fixations and fetishes, breakdowns and bad decisions crafted by authors as diverse as their writing styles, Shadowy Natures leads fans of psychological horror down dark and treacherous roads to destinations they will be too unsettled to leave.

Something bad happened here. When Case arrives at a run-down, ivy-covered house tucked deep in the West Texas woods, an ashy haze lingers in the air and the sky is tissue-paper pink. Her best friend Drea has been living here with a few classmates Case has never met, and Drea asked her to visit in a letter dated two weeks ago.

A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stand in its path. Amelia Bell is thrust into every mother’s worst nightmare. She has a child who is fatally ill and no one knows of a vaccine that will cure him. Her son was one of the first infected with the virus that changed life and the world as we know it. Her son transformed into a monster with a ravenous appetite for human flesh. Believing he will become healthier if she feeds him what he craves, she enlists her alter ego.

When Walter Hartright encounters the "solitary figure of a woman, dressed from head to foot in white garments" on a lonely road, he is haunted by her. He falls in love with his employer's niece, Laura, because she resembles the mysterious woman. Laura, however, is betrothed to the evil Sir Percival, who wishes to marry her for her money. The woman in white, it turns out, is Anne Catherick, who was confined in an asylum by the evil Sir Percival because she knew a devastating secret about him.

Der große neue Roman vom Autor des Bestsellers "Hex". Eigentlich sollte es eine ganz gewöhnliche Bergtour werden, als Nick mit seinem Kletterpartner Augustin zum Mont Maudit in den Schweizer Alpen aufbricht. Doch dann kommt es unterwegs zu einem tragischen Unfall: Augustin stürzt in eine Gletscherspalte, Nick wird schwer verletzt ins Krankenhaus eingeliefert - er wird für immer entstellt sein. Sam, Nicks Lebensgefährte, ist zunächst nur froh, dass sein Freund überlebt hat, aber dann passieren immer mysteriösere Dinge in Nicks Umfeld.

At a top secret research laboratory in Nevada, DARPA's most advanced artificial intelligence can read your darkest secrets and hidden intentions right off your face. The technology's manipulative inventor, however, fears no future big brother surveillance state. He built it for his own secret reasons - and now there is no untruth he won't tell, no subterfuge he won't pull, to help his estranged young daughter.