Psychological Thriller Short Stories

Terry loves his coffee. One morning while enjoying his daily intake, a stranger approaches his table and accuses Terry of following him. From that moment on, Terry's life becomes a living nightmare as he tries to defend himself from the insanity around him.

From award-winning writer/director/producer George Zarr comes a five-story anthology of suspense and mystery. Each tale features a full cast, engaging sound effects, and original music.

Award-winning crime novelist Rob Riley takes a sharp turn into dark, psychological territory with his new short story, The Do-Over. Bill Simons, a man who needs to change his life and location, moves to New York City to begin again - in many ways. A professional and a gentleman, he is off to a fine start, when he meets and begins a relationship with a beautiful woman. The past oozes into and pollutes the present, and the changes he is forced to make bring a do-over of the nightmare from which he had escaped.

Two lucid dreamers meet in recurring dreams, fall in love, and conceive a dream baby; but the unreality of the dream world leads them to distrust each other - with nightmarish results. A paranoid exploration of two minds dreaming the same dream, and fighting to control it.

Sarah Carpenter lives in an isolated farmhouse in North Yorkshire, and for the first time after the death of her husband some years ago and her children, Louis and Kitty, leaving for university, she's living alone. But she doesn't consider herself lonely. She has two dogs, a wide network of friends and the support of her best friend, Sophie. When an old acquaintance, Aiden Beck, needs somewhere to stay for a while, Sarah's cottage seems ideal, and renewing her relationship with Aiden gives her a reason to smile again.

After 10 years of marriage, Mike and Emilia's relationship falls apart after Emilia admits to having an affair - an affair with a man who gave her HIV. Once Mike finds out what she's done, he will go to any length to ensure she dies a slow, painful death, just like the one he's sure his wife has sentenced him to.

Psychiatrist Dr. Renee Conway has taken on a new patient: Kevin Reynolds, the local hero who ran into a burning building to save a young family from certain death. When the rescue goes horrifically wrong, a boy is dead and Kevin suffers excruciating burns. Plagued with nightmares and left with a horribly disfigured face, Kevin finds celebrity its own torture.

When you're only five years old the world is held together by strange and mysterious things like zippers. And the greatest mystery is what ants do when they go down in the ground. Trying to follow the ants, Johnny opened the zipper that turned the world inside out.

Robert Hunter, Anfang zwanzig, ist das Wunderkind der amerikanischen Polizei. Er verfügt über eine besondere Gabe: Er weiß, was Mörder denken. Als jüngster Ermittler in der Geschichte der USA tritt er in den Dienst des LAPD Morddezernats. Worüber sein neuer Chef alles andere als glücklich ist. Was soll er mit diesem Anfänger? Er übergibt ihm einen einfachen Selbstmord. Am Tatort angekommen, stellt Hunter fest, dass das Apartment von innen verschlossen war. Auf dem Bett liegt eine junge Frau in einer riesigen Blutlache.

Thirty years hasn't changed Las Vegas - the desert just got dirtier. The biggest game in town centers on a massive, deadly roller coaster that winds its way through the Strip's most famous attractions. On the first Saturday of every month, twenty-four desperate passengers get strapped into the notorious ride and gamble with their lives in a twisted game of chance, to the thrill of webcast audiences worldwide. One of them will win, and one will die, but the other twenty-two will escape with nothing but their lives.

Gerald is his Mother's precious one, but his father doesn't share her opinion and neither do his school friends. He is both pampered and bullied until he discovers a unique telepathic skill. Aged seven, he wonders, what if everyone were a house, and what type of house would they be? These two moments eventually come together in adulthood, with frightening consequences....

Twenty-eight-year-old Kade hasn't been able to make it past his sidewalk in eight years. In this chilling short story, you will be given a glimpse into the inner workings of his mind as he goes through the process of trying to face his irrational but very real fears.

Marguerite Antonia Caludio grew up in the looming shadow of her mother, a beautiful, talented flamenco dancer. But Anastasia had been taken down by breast cancer when Marguerite was only 14, and Marguerite's grandparents succumbed to grief only scant months later. Now, Marguerite lives along in the same three-bedroom apartment, maintaining the shrine to all which has been lost.

From Book 1: Warning cliffhangers and jaw-droppers ahead! Perfect for fans of The Leftovers, The Handmaid’s Tale, and Gone Girl...a chilling pause-resister with delicious dialogue and  a plot that creeps and crawls! Home, Syd West’s twisted thriller series, will get under your skin!

Old Fred Parker feels helpless while watching his business fall prey to the sickest elements of a society in decay. One bleak and dreary afternoon, however, Fred's beloved Emporium is visited by an odd little man with strange old clothes and horrible ideas. Fred Parker is compelled to contemplate the difference between right and wrong as his life is transformed forever.

Spider Season is the debut collection by Billy Hanson. Deeply haunting and immensely enjoyable, these stories are sure to leave you wide-eyed and breathing heavily.

Haruki is traveling to the vast plains of Hokkaido, Japan, on a lone bus about to enter a three-kilometer-long tunnel. He is grieving for the loss of his wife when the tunnel collapses and traps the bus inside. In the darkness that follows, he manages to fumble out of the bus with the only other survivor, an astute and gentle woman who reminds him of his late wife. Without any light to guide them and with only each other to depend on, they try to escape the stifling darkness and along the way find themselves confronted by their pasts and given their last chance at intimacy, and ultimately, absolution.

Un'oscura genia di umanoidi che minaccia la sopravvivenza di tutti gli uomini. Una folle fuga nel microcosmo psichedelico della metropolitana di Londra. Un cagnolino in grado di diventare lo strumento più forte del male assoluto. Il lato in ombra della mente può oltrepassare i limiti della ragione, confondendosi con la realtà e sostituirsi a essa? I racconti di "È solo nella tua mente ed è reale" si muovono in queste atmosfere stranianti e bizzarre, inquietanti e surreali, cercando di rispondere al segreto della psiche con uno sguardo attento e brillante.

"Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" is a short story by the American writer Herman Melville, first serialized anonymously in two parts in the November and December 1853 issues of Putnam's Magazine, and reprinted with minor textual alterations in his The Piazza Tales in 1856. A Wall Street lawyer hires a new clerk who, after an initial bout of hard work, refuses to make copy and any other task required of him, with the words "I would prefer not to".

This is a story about one family's fight with a mentally ill mother and how as she gets further and further away from reality; how the family falls apart.