Psychological Horror

Nineteen thirty-four, London. Into the decaying cul-de-sac of Bleeding Heart Square steps aristocratic Lydia Langstone fleeing an abusive marriage. However, unknown to Lydia, a dark mystery haunts Bleeding Heart Square. What happened to Miss Penhow, the middle-aged spinster who owns the house and who vanished four years earlier? Why is a seedy plain-clothes policeman obsessively watching the square? What is making struggling journalist Rory Wentwood so desperate to contact Miss Penhow?

After her hand is amputated following a tragic accident, Rachel Cooper suffers vivid nightmares of a woman imprisoned in the trunk of a hollow tree, screaming for help. When she begins to experience phantom sensations of leaves and earth with her missing limb, Rachel is terrified she is going mad. But then another hand takes hers, and the trapped woman is pulled into our world.

Sarah and Patrick are happy. But after her mother's death, Sarah spirals into depression and overdoses on sleeping pills. While Sarah claims it was an accident, her teenage children aren't so sure. Patrick decides they all need a fresh start and he knows just the place, since the idyllic family home where he was raised has recently come up for sale. There's only one catch: for the past 15 years, it has become infamous as the "Murder House", standing empty after a family was stabbed to death within its walls.

أعرف أن عنوان الكتاب مألوفا لديكم.. نعم.. أنا الطبيب النفسي ذاته الذي سردت لكم سابقا أغرب القصص والحالات التي مرت علي في مستشفى الطب النفسي في ٣ أجزاء سابقة حملت اسم (حالات نادرة).. لتصلني العديد من الرسائل يطلب فيها القراء سرد المزيد.. وقد وجدت الفرصة على طبق من ذهب حين جلست مع ٣ فتيات في ليلة هادئة لا تنسى أبدا.. وبمكان تستطيع كل منهن أن تبصق فيه أفكارها كما نبصق السموم التي نمتصها ممن لدغته أفعى!!!.. وهذا ما فعلته كل منهن في تلك الليلة.. خاصة مع أضواء الشموع المتراقصة والأجواء الغامضة التي تشعرك أنك ترتاد أدغال النفس المظلمة!!.

Charlie was once a loving family man with hope and a future. But when he loses his family in a tragic accident, grief drives him down a dark path. After he finds "The Bloody List", a grim record of every person who ever wronged him, Charlie is determined to make each person on the list pay for what they've done. With each carefully planned act of vengeance, Charlie writes letters to Detective Martinez, the one person who just might understand his twisted sense of justice.

يُعرِّي الكاتب في رواية "الجزار" النَّفس البشرية ويشرِّحها أمامك حتّى تغوص بدواخلها كما يكشف التجاوزات التي تحدث داخل جهاز أمن الدَّولة ويجعلك نسير مع الأحداث برهبة فهي تمتزج بين البوليسيّة والرُّعب بأسلوب مشوِّق للغاية يجعلكَ تحبس أنفاسك ولكن في النهاية ستُصدَم بذكاء الكاتب فقد جعلك تسير براحتك تتوقَّع الأحداث وفي النهاية... ستكتشف أنه قد تم خداعك!

Twelve housemates enter a house as part of a bold, new television show. All they know is they're to have their actions monitored 24 hours a day and compete in a series of tasks with the knowledge that - at the end of the show - one of them will walk away with 100,000 pounds. But all is not as it seems, and the truth - and danger - becomes apparent as soon as the doors lock them in on their first night, and the first of the 12 is murdered....

A master craftsman, Don Lark could fix everything except what mattered, his own soul. After tragedy claimed the one thing he loved, he began looking for dilapidated houses to buy, renovate, and resell at a profit, giving these empty shells the second chance at life he denied himself.

One hot summer's day, John Cole decides to shut his bookshop early, and possibly forever, and drives out of London to see his brother. When his car breaks down on an isolated road, he goes looking for help and finds a dilapidated house. As he approaches, a laughing woman he's never seen before walks out, addresses him by name and explains she's been waiting for him. Entering the home, John discovers an enigmatic clan of residents all of whom seem to know who he is, and also claim they have been awaiting him arrival.

Audrey can see things others can't. Being a psychic in a small town is bad enough, but when bodies are discovered, it's hard to look the other way. Especially since Audrey has seen the man responsible. As she begins to uncover truths about not only herself but those around her, as well as the killer, she is taken down a dangerous path.

Lisa needs to disappear. And her friend's rambling old home in the wilds of Yorkshire seems like the perfect place. It's miles away from the closest town, and no one there knows her or her little boy, Joe. But when Lisa meets some of the locals and hears some disturbing rumours about the house, she realises it might not be the sanctuary she thought. What secret has Rowan Isle House - and her friend - kept hidden all these years? And what will Lisa have to do to survive when her own past finally catches up with her?

He understood why she did it. She had lost her own baby - one conceived by the unwanted advances of a sexual predator - and hated thinking of them out there in the cemetery, alone and cold. She had to bring them into the warmth. She had to give them the lives they'd otherwise never live. It was her mission. But with each new doll brought home, her yearning for a living child of her own continued to grow. Yes, he knew why she did it, but even so, he wasn't able to stand by her, and he knew she was going to get a lot worse before she got better.

In a small town along the Mississippi River, separate but nearly identical attacks have left two married couples brutally murdered in their homes. A young boy—the lone survivor of the killings—now lies comatose in the hospital. And the police’s only lead is the boy’s terrified description of the assailant: a “monster."

A dark psychological thriller set in a Victorian asylum in the heart of Wales.

Anne Tyler gives us a wise, haunting, and deeply moving new novel in which she explores how a middle-aged man, torn apart by the death of his wife, is gradually restored by her frequent appearances: in their house, on the roadway, in the market. Gradually he discovers, as he works in the family's vanity-publishing business, turning out titles that presume to guide beginners through the trials of life, that maybe for this beginner there is a way of saying goodbye.

February 14th and my wife is looking at me with hope in her eyes. She has just given me a card and a bottle of my favourite drink so I presume she is hoping for something similar in return. I have nothing but the shovel I'm hiding behind my back. Valentine's Day is a joke. A day made up, no doubt, by people who sell cards and flowers. A way of conning us out of our money as we feel duty bound to "prove our love" for one another. Well this collection is not about proving love. This collection of stories is all about sour, bloody violent love. They say love hurts. They're not wrong.

In a small, rural Arkansas town in the midst of World War II, hotel house detective George "Jojo" Walker wearily maintains the status quo in the wake of personal devastation. That status quo is disrupted when a hygiene picture roadshow rolls into town with a controversial program on display and curious motives in mind. What begins with a gruesome and impossible murder soon spirals into hallucinatory waking nightmares for Jojo - nightmares that converge with his reality and dredge up his painful, secret past.

Cherry Hollow has been plagued by The Darkness for more than two decades. Death, murder, infidelity, trauma, and severe mental health disorders … It all started in 1998 with the disappearance of a young boy. Or did it? Now, another body has been discovered, hidden in the depths of Beaker Ravine, a place where The Darkness has been luring its victims for years. But this body is different. It’s older. It means The Darkness was around long before anyone even knew it existed …

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?

In 1972, The Night Stalker took America by storm, becoming the highest-rated TV movie at the time and spawning a second movie and a cult series, all starring Darren McGavin. The story of a blood-sucking psycho on the loose in Sin City started with a then-unpublished novel by Las Vegas reporter Jeff Rice. Now, after years of being out of print, Monstrous Books presents this restored version of the book that launched one of the most beloved and influential characters in TV history.