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
The Shining (The Shining, #1)
Misery
The Yellow Wall-Paper
House of Leaves
I'm Thinking of Ending Things
The Last House on Needless Street
The Silence of the Lambs  (Hannibal Lecter, #2)
Rosemary’s Baby (Rosemary's Baby, #1)
American Psycho
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
We Used to Live Here
A Head Full of Ghosts
Red Dragon (Hannibal Lecter, #1)
Gerald's Game

Mercedes Lackey
Dyran rose slowly, a vermilion scarf in his hand. Every eye in the area was now on him; as host to the conflict, it was his privilege to signal the start of the duel. He smiled graciously, and dropped the square of silk. It fluttered to the sand, ignored, as the carnage began. In the end, even a few of the elven spectators excused themselves, and Serina found herself averting her eyes. She’d had no idea how much damage two blunt instruments could do. But Dyran watched on; not eagerly, as Lady Al ...more
Mercedes Lackey, The Elvenbane

Michael F Simpson
And the wind is not wind, it is the breath of refracted light, chilling me with its memories.
Michael F Simpson, Hypnagogia

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