Psychological Horror

Psychological horror is a subgenre of horror fiction that relies on characters' fears and emotional instability to build tension. It typically plays on archetypal shadow characteristics embodied by the threat. Psychological horror aims to create discomfort by exposing common or universal psychological vulnerabilities and fears, such as the shadowy parts of the human psyche which most people repress or deny. ...more

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The Memory Ward
The Bell Chime
Welcome to Nightmare Island
The Haunting of Hill House
Misery
The Shining (The Shining, #1)
The Yellow Wall-Paper
House of Leaves
The Last House on Needless Street
I'm Thinking of Ending Things
The Silence of the Lambs  (Hannibal Lecter, #2)
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
A Head Full of Ghosts
American Psycho
We Used to Live Here
Rosemary’s Baby (Rosemary's Baby, #1)
Gerald's Game
Uzumaki
Uzumaki by Junji ItoThe Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories by Charlotte Perkins GilmanFragments of Horror by Junji ItoBlack Hole by Charles BurnsHouse of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
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Jonathan Harnisch
It’s not that I’m suffering inside a prison. It’s that I am the prison. I’m the cell, the bars, the locked door, and the scream no one hears.
Jonathan Harnisch, Sex, Drugs, and Schizophrenia

Michael F Simpson
I looked around again, quickly left, quickly right. There was someone around me. Something. In the shop windows, faint and ghostly faces gazing out. Directly at me no matter which side of the empty space I looked upon. Once again the darkness and the impossible distance obstructed my ability to discern any detailed features, leaving me alone with only vague ideas of the inhuman human form.
Michael F Simpson, Hypnagogia

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