Psychological Horror

A Sorceress Comes to Call

A Novel

By T. Kingfisher

Cordelia knows her controlling mother is an evil sorcerer; when they enter a kind squire's household, she must resist magical obedience and help her new allies survive the woman's plans.

Alchemised

A Novel

By SenLinYu

Resistance healer Helena Marino wakes imprisoned after a civil war with crucial memories missing, while a powerful necromancer is ordered to recover the secrets buried inside her mind.

Between Two Fires

A Novel

By Christopher Buehlman

A dark historical horror journey through plague era France where faith, monsters, and survival collide.

Black House

By Stephen King and Peter Straub

Adult Jack Sawyer leaves retirement to help investigate murders of children in Wisconsin, drawing him toward his forgotten Territories past and a threat from End-World.

Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil

A Novel

By V. E. Schwab

Across centuries, three women pursue freedom, love, and immortality through a dark lineage of hunger that transforms their bodies and binds their stories together.

Dear Debbie

A Psychological Thriller

By Freida McFadden

Dear Debbie centers on an advice columnist whose family pressures, neighborhood grievances, and increasingly extreme retaliation drive a darkly comic domestic revenge story.

Dracula

A Novel

By Bram Stoker

Letters, diaries, and records document Count Dracula's movement from Transylvania to England and the desperate group that recognizes the vampire's threat and organizes against him.

Frankenstein

Or, The Modern Prometheus

By Mary Shelley

Victor Frankenstein creates living consciousness and immediately abandons it, beginning a cycle of loneliness, revenge, and moral failure between creator and creature.

Indian Burial Ground

By Nick Medina

Noemi Broussard doubts the explanation for her boyfriend's death. Her uncle Louie's return to Takoda brings back memories of a summer he hoped to leave behind.

Look What the Cat Dragged In

By Jason Rekulak

A Philadelphia cartoonist takes in a cat named Godfrey. When her health slips and her drawings start to frighten her, Penny Padgett begins to wonder what she brought home.

Other Worlds Than These

A Talisman Novel

By Stephen King and Peter Straub

An older Jack Sawyer faces a threat crossing from America into Mid-World in the final Talisman novel, which brings his story into closer contact with Stephen King's Dark Tower universe.

Savage Lake

By Nick Medina

Nell Marin takes her teenage son Oscar to fix up a family cabin on Torchlight Lake. A blocked road prolongs the stay, and noises from the lake make Oscar wonder what brought his mother back so reluctantly.

Sisters of the Lost Nation

By Nick Medina

As girls begin to disappear from the Takoda Reservation, seventeen-year-old Anna Horn turns to the stories she grew up with. Then her younger sister Grace goes missing.

Someone You Can Build a Nest In

A Novel

By John Wiswell

Shapeshifting monster Shesheshen falls for kind human Homily, then learns her new girlfriend's family is hunting the very creature Shesheshen must pretend not to be.

Sphere

A Novel

By Michael Crichton

A team of specialists descends to a deep-sea habitat to investigate an enormous spacecraft discovered on the ocean floor, where an apparently impossible sphere turns fear and imagination into physical danger.

The Coworker

A Workplace Thriller

By Freida McFadden

When awkward accountant Dawn Schiff vanishes, polished coworker Natalie Farrell falls under suspicion and every email, routine, and break-room conversation looks like a clue.

The Curse of Hester Gardens

A Novel

By Tamika Thompson

A mother trying to protect her sons faces family guilt, gun violence, and a haunting in a Michigan public-housing community.

The Hollow Places

A Novel

By T. Kingfisher

Recently divorced Kara discovers a hole in her uncle's oddities museum that opens into a world of endless bunkers and willows, where unseen creatures can hear human thoughts.

The Metamorphosis

A Modernist Novella

By Franz Kafka

Kafka turns an ordinary morning into an existential crisis, blending precise prose with claustrophobic dread.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

A Novel

By Oscar Wilde

Beautiful Dorian Gray wishes that his portrait will age in his place, gaining a life without visible consequences while the hidden painting records his corruption.

The Shining

Psychological Horror Classic Review

By Stephen King

A family caretaking the Overlook Hotel faces isolation, addiction, and psychic dread in Stephen King's landmark psychological horror novel.

The Talisman

By Stephen King and Peter Straub

Twelve-year-old Jack Sawyer travels across America and the parallel Territories to find an object that might save his dying mother.

The Trial

An Unexplained Charge and an Endless Court

By Franz Kafka

Josef K. is arrested without a charge and sent from hearings to lawyers to court offices, where every promised answer creates another procedure.

The Twisted Ones

A Novel

By T. Kingfisher

While clearing her late grandmother's isolated house, Mouse finds her step-grandfather's impossible journal and begins seeing twisted creatures beyond the trees, far too close to home.

The Whistler

By Nick Medina

After a serious injury ends his run as an aspiring ghost hunter, Henry Hotard returns home to Takoda and begins to hear a threat he can no longer keep behind the camera.

What Moves the Dead

Sworn Soldier, Book 1

By T. Kingfisher

Retired soldier Alex Easton visits the decaying Usher estate and finds a dying friend, possessed wildlife, strange fungi, and a lake whose stillness conceals an invasive intelligence.

Wolf Worm

A Novel

By T. Kingfisher

A dark and unsettling novel that blends survival tension, body horror undertones, and a creeping sense of dread.

Woman Down

A Novel

By Colleen Hoover

Petra's life collapses after a career-ending mistake, drawing her toward a mysterious police officer and a dangerous secret in Colleen Hoover's return to thrillers.