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
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