Psychological Horror Thriller

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.

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.

On the outskirts of the remote town of Sherwood, everyone is abuzz about the big glamorous new mall that is soon to open. To add fuel to the excitement, some lucky shoppers will be able to spend the night at the Village Square Mall before its grand opening. As the malls' doors are being locked shut, a wickedly rad party is about to commence.

Charly und ihr Mann Eric sind überzeugt, das große Los gezogen zu haben. Nach Monaten der vergeblichen Suche wurde ihnen das perfekte Haus für ihre wachsende Familie angeboten. Und das zu einem erschwinglichen Preis. Aber noch vor ihrem Einzug bekommt die glänzende Fassade Risse. Vor nicht einmal einem Jahr ermordete der Sohn der Hausherren seine Eltern und beging im Anschluss Selbstmord. Einzig seine Schwester überlebte. Aber wie wahrscheinlich ist es schon, dass sich solch eine Tragödie wiederholt?

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.

Clayton Barbour, the narrator, is a protected bourgeois son just weak enough to allow himself to be overwhelmed by a sly, dissembling force of evil, just strong enough to be constantly tormented by his weakness. Invited to a séance by a casual acquaintance, Moore, who sees in him a psychic force, he becomes the inadvertent victim of Moore's wife's contact with a channeled malignant force.

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.

What happens when every parent's worst nightmare comes true - and when the past is unwilling to be the past? Some memories are too powerful to live only in the past. During a ferocious storm, a red-haired stranger appears in the garden of a small farming cottage. Eliza and her parents take him in. But very soon, it's clear he has no intention of leaving. A century later, Mary and Graham have experienced every parent's worst nightmare.

What if surging gun violence, racial tension and distrust of law enforcement was by design? What if the rage and disenchantment of working class Americans was stoked by politicians? What if neighbors were urged to despise neighbors because of their differences? When a national house divided is scripted and staged, the looming future begins to look like an unspeakable past.

Mandy Wright is the nicest girl at Bliss High. She has it all: the hottest boyfriend, straight A's, the lead in our play, everything but me.... Everyone adores Mandy, but nobody really cares about her the way I do. After all, I know things no one else does. Like the fact that her closest friends are scheming to bring her down. That her boyfriend is cheating on her. That everyone she trusts is more dangerous than she knows.