Psychological Horror Ghost

Some doors are better left closed . . . Darkly profound and utterly chilling, Apartment 16 is a work of compulsive psychological horror from the award-winning author of The Ritual, Adam Nevill. ‘Fast becoming Britain's answer to Stephen King’ – The Guardian In Barrington House, an upmarket...

Dare to enter Harmony House... if you can survive its curse. Nestled in the heart of Brooklyn, New York, Harmony House is a striking estate with an allure that draws people in—only to trap them in a web of terror. Five new owners have crossed its threshold, each unaware of the horrors waiting inside. What starts as a dream home quickly turns into a nightmare as they confront the malevolent spirits that haunt its halls. Each story reveals the twisted history of Harmony House through the eyes of its ill-fated residents. From terrifying apparitions to sinister forces that toy with the mind, ...

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. ...

Lainey Taylor is being pushed to the brink by her alcoholic husband, Callum. Prone to hallucinations and erratic behavior, it’s only a matter of time before he puts Lainey’s life—and that of their daughter, Beatrix—in jeopardy. A divorce and full custody is out of the question. In Callum’s words: Over my dead body. Lainey’s sympathetic friend Adelaide has a wild solution. They’ll stage a haunting so convincing it will drive Callum out of Lainey’s life for good. Nothing too over the top: strange smells, noises in the walls, and flies unleashed along the windowsills.

When Louise finds out her parents have died, she dreads going home. She doesn’t want to leave her daughter with her ex and fly to Charleston. She doesn’t want to deal with her family home, stuffed to the rafters with the remnants of her father’s academic career and her mother’s lifelong obsession with puppets and dolls. She doesn’t want to learn how to live without the two people who knew and loved her best in the world. Most of all, she doesn’t want to deal with her brother, Mark, who never left their hometown, gets fired from one job after another, and resents her success.

Mary is a quiet middle-aged woman doing her best to blend into the background. Unremarkable. Invisible. Unknown even to herself. But lately, things have been changing inside Mary. Along with the hot flashes and body aches, she can’t look in a mirror without passing out, and the voices in her head have been urging her to do unspeakable things. Fired from her job in New York, she moves back to her hometown hoping to reconnect with her past and inner self. What she finds instead are visions of terrifying mutilated specters that come with increasing regularity.

What if the Vatican’s best exorcist wasn’t even... alive? From the bestselling author of The Paranormalist series comes a terrifying new vision of demonic possession and supernatural horror. Exorcists are dying—murdered mid-ritual, their bodies desecrated. Something is killing the Church’s holy warriors, one by one. To stop it, the Vatican unleashes Michael, a new breed of exorcist immune to possession, forged for spiritual war. A living weapon the Devil may fear. Assigned to monitor him is Father Callum, a grizzled priest who’s seen evil in all its forms. Their mission leads to a...

Late one moonlit night, Walter Hartright encounters a solitary and terrified woman dressed all in white. He saves her from capture by her pursuers and determines to solve the mystery of her distress and terror. Inspired by an actual criminal case, this gripping tale of murder, intrigue, madness and mistaken identity has never been out of print since its publication and brought Collins great fame and success.

Step into the shadows—where every whisper hides a secret. From haunted houses to cursed towns, Whispers in the Dark delivers twenty chilling tales of fear, guilt, and the things that won’t stay buried. A radio host hears his own ghost on air… A house learns to listen… A teacher returns long after death. Each story pulls you deeper into the dark—where nightmares feel familiar and silence has a voice.

It’s the house of their dreams. Former marine Harry and his wife, Sasha, have packed up their life and their golden retriever, Dash, and fled the corporate rat race to live off the land in rural Idaho. Their breathtaking new home sits on more than forty acres of meadow, aspen trees, and pine forest in the Teton Valley. Even if their friends and family think it’s a strange choice for an up-and-coming pair of urban professionals, Harry and Sasha couldn’t be happier about the future they’re building, all by their lonesome.

In these ten unsettling tales—the debut collection from Joshua Rex—cities and houses become predators, mothers macabre curators, dormant antique coats and colonial legends revivified dangers. A psychometress resurrects a rapacious fiend, and a psychologist counsels an eerily familiar patient. A man returning home to bury his father is forced to exhume a horrid secret, and a bullied adolescent’s game-winning shot is not only a team victory but a bloody and visceral personal triumph. Uniting these doomed is the unequivocal certainty that what is coming is coming for us all. Includes: ...

From a Bram Stoker Award‑nominated author comes a darkly humorous horror novel that sees a famous 80s slasher director set out to shoot the most terrifying horror movie ever made using an occult camera that might be (and probably is) demonic. Horror isn't horror unless it's real. Max Maurey...

There are places the light cannot reach. And some truths are only revealed in the dark. Welcome to Sanctuary of Shadows, a chilling collection of thirteen original tales that slip beneath the surface of what we believe is safe, sacred, or explainable. In this world, the line between the living and the dead is frayed. Memories twist like smoke. And even the most familiar places, an old church, a roadside inn, a quiet neighborhood can become gateways to something else entirely. These are not loud horrors. They are quiet knocks at midnight. A whisper behind the wall. A doll that moves when no ...

After years of questioning her sanity, Kat Delancey reluctantly returns to the old family manor as its legal owner, hoping desperately to silence the doubts in her mind and leave the home's tragic past behind her once and for all. But it turns out to be harder than she expected, and not just because of the estranged step-family waiting for her - because maybe Kat's mind was never playing tricks on her after all, and maybe the manor harbors a far more malevolent presence than she ever dreamed...

From the macabre mind of a Bram Stoker Award-nominated author, this heart-pounding novel of horror and psychological suspense takes a ghost hunting reality TV crew into a world they could never have imagined. Fade to Black is the newest hit ghost hunting reality TV show. Led by husband and wife...

Aaron Decker's life changes one December morning when his wife, Allison, is killed. Haunted by her absence - and her ghost - Aaron goes through her belongings, where he finds a receipt for a motel room in another part of the country. Piloted by grief and an increasing sense of curiosity, Aaron embarks on a journey to discover what Allison had been doing in the weeks prior to her death.

Steelhead Graveyard Some Rivers Should Be Left Alone Deep in the Pacific Northwest’s coastal wilderness lies a river with secrets older than the trees that line its banks. A river that watches. A river that remembers. When veteran angler Bob Tomalin ventures into the remote canyons of this river for what he hopes will be a soul-cleansing steelhead trip, he’s chasing more than fish—he’s running from a life that’s quietly unraveling. Haunted by personal loss and drawn by a need to reconnect with the only place that’s ever made sense, Bob sets up camp where the map fades and the ...

Every so often a character so captures the hearts and imaginations of listeners that he seems to take on a life of his own long after the final chapter. For such a character, one book is not enough—listeners must know what happens next. Now Dean Koontz returns with the novel his fans have been demanding. With the emotional power and sheer storytelling artistry that are his trademarks, Koontz takes up once more the story of a unique young hero and an eccentric little town in a tale that is equal parts suspense and terror, adventure and mystery—and altogether irresistibly odd.

He was Ramses the Damned in ancient Egypt, but awoke in opulent Edwardian London as Dr. Ramsey, expert in Egyptology. He mixes with the aristocrats and samples their voluptuous lifestyle, but it is for his beloved, Cleopatra, that he longs, and will do anything to be with....

Bret Ellis, the narrator of Lunar Park, is the bestselling writer whose first novel Less Than Zero catapulted him to international stardom while he was still in college. In the years that followed he found himself adrift in a world of wealth, drugs, and fame, as well as dealing with the unexpected death of his abusive father.