Paranormal Psychological Thriller

Regarded as a witch by the locals, Lydia bears silent testimony to her Appalachian town’s dark underside. The townspeople might believe the bad luck began when a night of teenage partying led to the preacher’s son falling to his death. But Lydia knows Peculiar’s troubles started when a local child never made it home from school, when an arsonist set the mountains ablaze, and when her own daughter seemingly vanished. The past can’t remain buried forever and now, from the swarming of the bees to the change in the auras she sees, Lydia knows the killer’s hold over the townspeople has...

Emily Edwards is locked in the basement. Her husband put her there. When she accused him of molesting their seven-year-old daughter, he finally snapped. But Emily isn’t alone in the basement. Her new home is infested with spirits of the dead. And some of them would die again to save her.

A fresh start. That's what Becca hoped the move from New York to Redemption, Wisconsin would be for her troubled family. A way to get her crumbling marriage back on track, and to bond with her difficult 16-year-old stepdaughter. But instead of a new beginning, Becca is thrust into a mysterious past she barely remembers. A past that includes the complications of interacting with her old teenage crush, Daniel, as well as living in her aunt's old house. A house with a violent past. A house the locals swear is haunted.

When Leslie inherits her family's estate, she uncovers a chilling truth: some legacies never die. Leslie's life spirals into chaos after a fire destroys her apartment, leaving her with nothing—until a lawyer shows up claiming she's the heir to her estranged family's estate, Englewood. Drawn to the house by mysterious dreams, Leslie discovers that her late mother may have left behind more than just secrets—Englewood is rumored to be haunted. As strange occurrences and eerie whispers plague her, she begins to wonder if the ghost stories surrounding the estate are more than local legend. ...

In a secluded valley, local life has always unfolded beneath the brooding shadow of the mountain—a presence as constant as it is feared. Generations have passed down stories of the lodge at its peak, where cruelty and madness once reigned before the doors were sealed and the truth buried beneath snow and silence. Nearly a century later, a new owner reopened the lodge, and soon, people began to vanish… again.

"I very much need to be dead." These are the chilling words left behind by a man who had everything to live for - but took his own life. In the void that remains stands his widow, Jane, surrounded by questions destined to go unanswered...unless she does what all the grief, fear, confusion, and fury inside of her demand: find the truth, no matter what. There is no one else to speak for Jane's husband - or the others who have followed him into death at their own hands.

"Character drives plot in this twisty and toxic thriller that deals with cohesive control and female empowerment.” — Holly Craig "An extremely brave book where you can really hear the character's voice.” — Philippa East "Just when you thought Paula couldn't possibly top THE LIES SHE TOLD, along comes her incredible second novel. It is a masterclass of how to write a twisty, dark thriller.” — Reader review "Oh my God. She's only gone and done it again... but even better!” — The Book Club Scotland ________________________________________________________ Haunted and desperate ...

Every Polaroid tells a lie. And every lie demands blood. Rain falls. Hymns echo. A killer arranges bodies like artwork and leaves Polaroids behind—ritualistic, intimate, and taunting. No fingerprints. No witnesses. Only a whistle in the dark and a message no one can decipher. Then Tobias Reddick steps into the case.

"Each crime scene felt like a spiritual riddle rather than just violence. It’s dark, yes, but in a thoughtful and meaningful way. I’m still thinking about it." - 5-Star Reader Review "I enjoyed the very thought-provoking themes of good vs evil, survival, identity, and human mortality. It kept me up at night long after the last page." - 5-Star Reader Review My name is Gaynell Debs. Claim to fame includes phenomena people cannot grasp. Yet, people are drawn to what I preach. One stored snapshot squats in my brain. Sent me into panic fifteen years ago. No through line to alter my confusion...

The apocalypse won’t arrive with fire from the sky. It will come through screens. Through code. Through belief weaponized at scale. The Necrocist Cult has evolved. No longer content with possessing one soul at a time, they have unleashed a demonic intelligence capable of infecting machines, networks and human minds. A supernatural virus spreading faster than faith can keep up. Father Callum returns, carrying the scars of battles he barely survived, reunited with Michael, the android exorcist once thought destroyed. Together, they face a new kind of war: one where demons manipulate social ...

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER One of USA Today's Best Books of 2020 “A haunted house story—with a twist….[Sager] does not hold back”(Rolling Stone) in this chilling thriller from the author of Final Girls and Survive the Night. Every house has a story to tell and a secret to...

The trail never ends. But your luck just might. The spanning wilderness offers isolation, beauty, and the ultimate test of human endurance. But when the sun drops behind the Blue Ridge Mountains and the fog rolls into the deep hollows, the woods belong to something else. In this massive new omnibus collection of 30 terrifying short tales, the ultimate hiking adventure becomes a fight for survival against the ancient, the unexplained, and the unforgiving. From the claustrophobic darkness of abandoned antebellum tunnels to the freezing, wind-whipped suspension bridges, these narratives ...

A haunted mansion with a deadly past. A ghost-hunting robot built to uncover the truth. An exorcist terrified of what machines can become. After surviving the Michael incident, Father Frank Callum vowed he’d never stand beside another synthetic occult investigator. But when the Vatican orders him to oversee LUX—a cutting-edge spectral detection unit—on its first field test, he has no choice. The location: the secluded estate of missing tech visionary Warren Perron, a place whispered about in Silicon Valley for the things he experimented on before he vanished. And as the investigation ...

The word-of-mouth BookTok hit about a supervisor at a top-secret government facility running experiments on human beings. He’s always been able to tell himself it’s for the greater good—until the day his work follows him home. “Inventive, scary, wholly entertaining, and deeply...

He stole her life’s work. She stole his future. But in a cage outside of time, the ultimate captivity is surrender. Dr. Imani Booker was erased. When the ruthless Hayes International corporation seized her groundbreaking temporal equations, they left the brilliant physicist with nothing but a footnote. But Imani didn't just build a time machine—she built a prison. Deep beneath the permafrost, in a luxury bunker disconnected from linear time, she has trapped the man who signed her life away: billionaire corporate heir Declan Hayes. Her revenge is absolute. Anchored to a biometric ...

Deep in the North Ridge Valley, some secrets are better left buried. Steve is a Wilderness Response ranger who has seen it all, but an anonymous tip about illegal poaching leads him into a restricted zone where the rules of nature no longer apply. Lena is a determined wildlife photographer chasing the shot of a lifetime, unaware that she is about to become the prey. When a brutal flash flood traps them in a "dead zone" of magnetic interference and impenetrable timber, they realize they aren't just fighting the elements. A team of ruthless mercenaries is hunting a legend, and they won't ...

Psychologist Loche Newirth becomes hunted when he sees a painting that opens a window onto the afterlife. An ancient order of men seeking to control the art pursue him across the world, through centuries, into madness, and beyond. The first part of Michael B. Koep's the Newirth Mythology The Invasion of Heaven is mystery, adventure, myth, betrayal, murder, and madness. Loche Newirth wonders if it was his fall: The 50-foot drop from the rocky cliff to the icy water below. Is this why he has been hallucinating?

A secret government unit is formed under the oversight of Adam Harrison, famed paranormal investigator. The case: In a historic mansion in New Orleans’ French Quarter, a senator’s wife falls to her death from a balcony. Most think she jumped, distraught over the loss of her young son. Some say she was pushed. And yet others believe she was beckoned by the ghostly spirits that inhabit the house - once the site of a serial killer’s grisly work.

### **The Reaper** *by Stefanos Gkagkastathis* --- **Fear isn’t born — it’s crafted.** In the misty town of **Ashvale**, sculptor **Nathan Cole** builds nightmares for a living. His lifelike horror figures make him a local legend — until people start vanishing, and his creations begin to look too familiar. By day, Nathan is an artist. By night, something else wears his skin. As Halloween approaches, **Claire Matthews** discovers the truth behind his work: every “figure” holds a trapped soul, every whisper in the leaves is a warning, and every swing of the unseen scythe feeds ...

Her mind is the prison. Nellie remembers nothing before the cabin. Her world begins and ends with Jack and their little girl, Aster. Every day is the same: keep the fire burning, keep Aster quiet, and above all—keep Jack happy. He says the world outside is gone, nothing but ash and danger. She believes him. She has to. But then she finds the doll. The cracks begin small—an object that shouldn’t exist, a story that doesn’t add up. Jack’s scavenging trips grow longer, his temper sharper. And the wooden box he guards like a secret pulses with questions Nellie can no longer silence. ...