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)
House of Leaves
The Yellow Wall-Paper
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
Bunny (Bunny, #1)
Red Dragon (Hannibal Lecter, #1)
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
Surreal Horror
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If You Like Channel Zero
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It Lives in The Basement by Sahara FoleyA Life To Waste by Andrew LennonSorrow's Point by Danielle DeVorDescending Lines by L. Andrew CooperWatcher by Alen B. Curtiss
Horror Novels You Might Have Missed
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Hell Bound by Andrew P. WestonDracula by Bram StokerFemme Fatale by Leesa WallaceThe Woman in Black by Susan         HillThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Books that go bump in the night
106 books — 42 voters


Stewart Stafford
Ouija Board Web by Stewart Stafford Someone's been in my room, Helped themselves to my beer. Bottled my portal to escape, And left behind a sober fear. I guess I'll climb the silence, To the mirror, if I'm still here, Tap out a drowning rhythm, To send an S.O.S. so clear. A phantom knocking from within, Coins rub my spirit board away, Voices say breathe out and in, Darkest night blurs into day. Moth to the flame in a spider web, Mummified to twist in the draught, Here comes the eight-eyed se ...more
Stewart Stafford

Stewart Stafford
The Confusual Suspects by Stewart Stafford A face squashed against glass, Hands cuffed behind my back, They believe I am still him— Though I know I'm not… am I? Snared by forsaken familiarity, Same DNA, but different prints, A misidentity parade dragged out through rabbit-warren courts — delirious. Part robot, Part drum: Automo-tom-tom, Retroactive mugging in fluid chrome, Nickel-and-diming reality’s ledger; Indexed, corrupted, awaiting recycling. © 2026, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserve ...more
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