Gothic Thriller Psychological

Everyone's invited. Everyone's a suspect. An exclusive black-tie birthday party. A sprawling mansion. A body falling from a balcony. One of the guests is dead, and another is a killer - but who is the hunter, and who is the prey? As the drinks flow, so do the lies...and nobody is safe...

On his 59th birthday, Tyson Parks—a famous, but struggling, horror writer—receives an ornate antiquarian desk in the hopes it will rekindle his creative juices. Perhaps inspire him to write another best-selling book and prove his best years aren’t behind him… As Tyson begins to use the new desk, he finds himself writing copy at an unfathomable speed, becomes so focused on writing that he binges on all-night, all-day sessions that take a serious physical and psychological toll. Soon, Tyson begins acting strange. Violent.

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...

Your favourite influencer is about to be exposed . . . A deliciously sinister novel from three-time Bram Stoker award-winner Sarah Langan. Every day, millions watch Mia Wright, the "trad wife" queen, on her idyllic 300-acre farm. With her handsome husband, seven perfect children, and a life of...

Wilbur and Elouise Saxton are forced to move south after losing their fortune following the Civil War. Hot-headed Wilbur was not happy about the adjustment, but his wife is glad to finally return to her home state. At least she was until they arrive at the home her late uncle left her, and find it in much despair. It also comes with a dark secret, something her family hid from her for good reason.

Reformed party girl Meg Ashley leads a life of privilege, thanks to a bestselling horror novel her mother wrote decades ago. But Meg knows that the glow of their very public life hides a darker reality of lies, manipulation, and the heartbreak of her own solitary childhood. Desperate to break free of her mother, Meg accepts a proposal to write a scandalous, tell-all memoir.

From the Bram Stoker award-nominated author of The Spite House comes a bone-chilling new novel about a private investigator hired by a mysterious billionaire to discover why he can’t die. When private investigator Shyla Sinclair is invited to the looming mansion of eccentric billionaire Saxton...

A gothic horror romance about a broken psychiatrist forced to take a job at at infamous hospital for the criminally insane, where she meets the engmatic and brilliant Patient Seventeen, and learns that St. Bartholomew's hides demons beyond her comprehension... Finishing my psychiatric residency...

When the cracked harbor bell of Greyhaven rings without wind, the town wakes to something old and listening beneath the tide. The Quiet That Walks: The First Echo begins the Greyhaven saga—a slow-burn supernatural thriller about resonance, memory, and the cost of hearing what should remain unsaid. Archivist Nora Callow captures a recording of the bell’s impossible tone; sound engineer Mara Vale studies its frequency; and choir director June Harlow feels the vibration beneath her own voice.

Of course they would come for me eventually. How could I have ever thought they wouldn't? For as long as Betty can remember, 43 Hanger Hill has been more than just her childhood home: it's a house haunted by whispers. Some of the rumours are vague. Others disturbingly specific . . . On the...

Every family has a story. But some families have a body count. ‘Clever, compelling, and absolutely delicious’ – Lisa Jewell, author of None of This is True The internationally bestselling author of His & Hers, Alice Feeney, returns with an all-consuming tale of psychological suspense...

Brought to you by Penguin. TRAPPED IN SPACE, AMI THOUGHT SHE WAS ALONE, UNTIL HER DISTRESS CALL WAS ANSWERED BY HIM. . . Thrum is a haunting, psychological sci-fi novella that will leave you wanting more . . . Ami awakes from years in stasis to find she’s at the edges of deep space, and the...

Goldengrove’s towers and twisted chimneys rose at the very edge of the peaceful Weald, a stone’s throw from the poisonous marshes and merciless waters of Rye Bay. Young Tabby Palethorp had been running wild there, ever since her mother grew too ill to leave her room. I was the perfect choice to give Tabby a good English education: thoroughly respectable and far too plain to tempt her lonely father, Sir Kit, to indiscretion. I knew better than to trust my new employer with the truth about my past. But knowing better couldn’t stop me from yearning for impossible things.

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?

Romance is dead... Beautiful but impoverished Lina Dahlstrom is dying of tuberculosis and it seems that no one can save her. All hope is lost until an eccentric doctor, Carl Dance, becomes enthralled with Lina’s charms and vows to do everything in his power to cure her. But when the illness...

Obsession is a sickness For which there is no cure. Suffolk, 1847. Charles Keller needs to escape London, so he leaps when he is offered a position as surgeon at a country infirmary for the poor. But St Cross is not as he expected, and he soon finds himself reflecting on a promise he once made...

At night, the garden comes alive... Mexican Gothic meets The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo in Christina Li's completely addictive and beautifully haunting gothic page-turner. Vivian Yin is dead. The trailblazing starlet was the first Chinese actress to win an Oscar ­- but at what should have...

It sends a shiver down Detective Superintendent Alan Markby's spine when he hears that a rambler has stumbled across human bones in Stovey Woods in the heart of the Cotswolds. Twenty-two years earlier, as a fresh-faced young inspector, he had a rare failure, in the hunt for a brutal serial...

'A gripping page-turner you'll want to stay up all night to finish.' Amy Tintera, New York Times bestselling author of Listen for the Lie After a true crime podcast reopens her cousin's murder case, a woman must confront her past at a glamorous European castle-turned-hotel where she follows a...

Horrifyingly vivid in the narration of Stephanie Németh-Parker. 'Trad Wife is terrifying . . . a surreal and slick feminist feast' – Sarah Pinborough, bestselling author of Behind Her Eyes Your favourite influencer is about to be exposed . . . Every day, millions watch Mia Wright, the "trad...