Fiction - Psychological

The quest for self-discovery never ends, especially for Harry Haller--better known as the Steppenwolf. After a life spent in self-imposed isolation, Harry meets the mysterious Hermine and becomes captivated by her intoxicating power. Through their nighttime adventures, the Steppenwolf experiences the decadent underbelly of...

"Jeremy" by Hugh Walpole is a captivating novel that intricately explores the nuances of coming-of-age, psychological turmoil, and familial dynamics within the realm of English literature. Set against the backdrop of early 20th-century England, Walpole masterfully portrays the journey of young Jeremy as he...

Pushcart Prize-winning author Chris Campanioni tells a story about the silences of generational trauma and the tenuous conditions in which stories get passed down in migration, a surface flimsy enough to allow the traffic between novel, notebook, reportage, and myth.While collecting the scattered stories...

Rachel and Talia Fontenot are sisters born into brutal, rural poverty of southeastern Louisiana in the 1960s.Raised with one another until tragic circumstances intervene and they are separated. Talia disappearing into a life of drugs and petty crime, Rachel fleeing to New Orleans. It...

A lifetime of endings, a million goodbyes. None of them right. It's funny what you remember when you've got nothing else to think about. All those things you should've said while you had the chance. You never learned did you? You never, ever learned.Belle...

Dr. Catherine "Cat" Powers is FBI Forensic pathologist and special agent with an uncanny sixth sense for bringing murders to justice. During a vacation in Belize with her young son, Joey, Cat gets a phone call from her boss. Young prostitutes are being picked...

Nick Easton, business owner, finds himself captive in the basement of an old barn. He doesn't understand why. But after months of hell, he is confronted with a choice.Marg Cunningham is the police detective tasked with finding Easton. The trail leads in several directions,...

Full text.The novel centres, in a very ambiguous way, around the life story of the protagonist Jacob Flanders, a sensitive young man, and is presented almost entirely through the impressions other characters have of Jacob. Thus, although it could be said that the book...

This will change how you look at everything Shaped by her yogic practices, Annajoy carries on an elegant meditative dance with the unremarkable trivial events occurring during her daily life in Amsterdam. Using imagination and reverie, she discovers mysterious minidramas enacted by characters more...

So taken by Margaret Sanger was H. G. Wells that he based a novel on the time that he spent with her. "Secret Places of the Heart" is a thinly-veiled autobiographical work revolving around Sir Richard Hardy's attempt to remedy his matrimonial problems during...

"Mr. Blettsworthy on Rampole Island" is a 1928 novel by H. G. Wells. It tells the story of Arnold Blettsworthy who, after being betrayed by a business partner, is advised to go travelling in an attempt to recover from his severe disillusionment. However, instead...

Yalo propels us into a skewed universe of brutal misunderstanding, of love and alienation, of self-discovery and luminous transcendence. At the center of the vortex stands Yalo, a young man drifting between worlds like a stray dog on the streets of Beirut during the...

Author: Dusty BunkerISBN-10: 0595216218ISBN-13: 9780595216215Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/01/2002Pages: 248Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.88lbsSize: 9.06h x 4.62w x 0.64d

Author: W. Somerset MaughamISBN-10: 1434401316ISBN-13: 9781434401311Publisher: Wildside PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/20/2024Pages: 180Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.41d

During his research on Near-Death Experiences, Dr. Prasad Vedurmudi, a genius neurologist at the prestigious University of Chicago, made a mind-bending discovery. A specific region of the brain acts as a gateway, transporting the departed to the next dimension. But there's more-a tantalizing possibility...

A mind-bending horror novel that blurs the lines between the psychological and the supernatural. The son of a schizophrenic, Jared Gordon has lived his entire life with a genetic time bomb coded into his DNA. So when the night terrors and hallucinations arrive in...

Author: E. V. SeymourISBN-10: 1835267491ISBN-13: 9781835267493Publisher: Joffe Books LtdLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/24/2024Pages: 398Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.77lbsSize: 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.99d

From international bestselling master of suspense Nicci French comes a chilling new psychological thriller about a woman determined to get justice for a murder no one else believes happened.Nancy North is ready to put her life back together. After suffering a psychotic break that...

One woman, the performance of a lifetime. Or two. An exhilarating, destabilizing M?bius strip of a novel that asks whether we ever really know the people we love. Two people meet for lunch in a Manhattan restaurant. She's an accomplished actress in rehearsals for...

Winner of the Prix Goncourt A powerful autobiographical novel of loss, the incandescent love that remains, and the small decisions that define the course of fatePaced and structured with the inevitable suspense of a countdown, Brigitte Giraud's tense and haunting novel follows one woman's...

HE WAS JUST A PLAYGROUND STORY, UNTIL THEY LET HIM IN.'THE MUST-READ SUMMER CHILLER' Daily Express 'IF YOU READ JUST ONE PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER THIS YEAR - MAKE IT THE TALL MAN' CultureFly They went looking for a story. What they found was a nightmare....

The English-language debut of one of the most exciting voices in contemporary Brazilian literature, The Tokyo Suite is a gripping exploration of the complexities of modern family dynamics and the tensions hiding just under the surface of ordinary lives. It's a seemingly ordinary morning...

Dr. Prasad Vedurmudi, a genius neurologist at the prestigious University of Chicago, made a mind-bending discovery during his research on Near-Death Experiences. Brace yourself for a revelation that could shatter everything we know about the afterlife. A specific region of the brain acts as...

blurbNothing ever goes right for her. When she finds the courage to support a colleague, will shebe redeemed or destroyed?Ruby is her own worst enemy. Showing great empathy for others, the floundering real estateagent masks lingering childhood trauma with poor decisions, inappropriate sexual encounters,...

After years of searching for family, someone to hold on to, Braxton Ross finds a half sister. He tries to integrate into her life, family, and friends. For a while, he believes he can be this person--stable, reliable, calm, and worthy. But he realizes...

The chilling, stay-up-all-night suspense thriller for fans of C.J. Tudor, Riley Sager and Stephen King. Secrets won't stay in the dark forever... This chilling, haunting and twisty thriller about how far we go to protect our darkest secrets is perfect for fans of Ruth...

Things were looking up for Alexandra Carlson. With her divorce behind her and the mysterious death of her father fading in her memory, she was moving on. She lived in a wonderful secluded house on a mountainside in Reno, her paintings were beginning to...

Author: Eastyn StarISBN-13: 9798330380046Publisher: Alpha Book WritersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/13/2024Pages: 312Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.29lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d

Our whole neighborhood is desperately searching for sixteen-year-old Shelby: my own daughter's best friend. But I know my daughter is lying about the night Shelby disappeared. And a mother will do anything to protect her child...Hickory Hills is the perfect place to raise a...

Ian has returned. But from where? Everyone thinks he is mentally disturbed because he is claiming to be the grown-up Ian Forman, who everyone knows drowned when he was just a 12-year-old child. Even his wife Mary of over 40 years says she doesn't...

A director of a big budget Australian sci-fi TV show grapples with the dilemma of corporate sponsorship, and their infatuation with their beautiful but mercurial lead star, Kit. Meanwhile, a young radical struggles to find themselves as their political movement - and the found...

Jessy is a High school senior struggling with drug addiction when he runs into his new teacher, the fearsome and rather ugly Mrs T.She is determined to change his life, mostly for the better and his life takes an unexpected and somewhat non-consensual change.But...

Joseph Conrad's novel Chance was published in 1913. It is narrated by Charles Marlow and other narrators, and it is unique among the author's works in that it places a strong emphasis on a female character: Flora de Barral. The narrators try to interpret...

"Twisted Minds: Tales of Psychological Horror" is a collection of ten haunting and unnerving short stories that will take readers on a journey into the depths of the human psyche. From the mind's maze to the haunting whispers in the shadows, these tales of...

Originally published as "The Card: A Story of Adventure in The Five Towns" and published as "Denry the Audacious" in the United States this comedic novel was made into a film starring Alec Guinness and Petula Clark in 1952.Author: Arnold BennettISBN-10: 1849020957ISBN-13: 9781849020954Publisher: Benediction...

After settling some unfinished business in the Baja Peninsula, Mike Black returns home only to find that his wife, Shy has been brutally beaten and shot to death. The police arrive shortly after he does. They take Black into custody and charge him with...

The birth of a cuckquean is not something one plans. It isn't something with which a woman is born. It isn't a conscious decision made by any sane woman. It is an accident of fate that envelopes the woman in an enriching life that...

Meet Lester Madison, a troubled alcoholic who meets up with a man who simply goes by the name of Harry, an AA sponsor who does not believe in God. Harry takes Lester under his wing and shows him how to work the AA program...

Blackmail, murder and romance are among the ingredients of Thomas Hardy's first published novel, and is somewhat influenced by the 'sensation novel' genre. Several perceptive critics praised the author as a novelist with a future when Desperate Remedies appeared anonymously in 1871. In its...

In the West Indies, women are expected to be strong. Some of them are the cornerstone of numerous single-parent families, and they do their best, for better or for worse, to raise their children. The passivity of women underscores their collective sense of worth,...

New York City police find Arnold Humphrey walking naked down the street. Delusional, believing George W. Bush ordered the 9/11 attack, and so paranoid he believes he believes the C.I.A. is following him, Humphrey is committed to a mental hospital where he meets hilarious...

This "charming . . . short account of ordinary goings-on in a French café" explores love, work, loneliness, and aging as it follows the daily life of a middle-aged Parisian bartender (Lemony Snicket) Pierre is a veteran bartender in a café in the outskirts...

Dramatic, wrenching, and ultimately uplifting, The Crying Tree is an unforgettable story of love and redemption, the unbreakable bonds of family, and the transformative power of forgiveness in the wake of a tragedy. Shortly after Irene and Nate Stanley move to Oregon with their...

For most of her life, Lauren Mahdian has been certain of two things: that her mother is dead, and that her father is a murderer. Before the horrific tragedy, Lauren led a sheltered life on the banks of Long Island Sound, a haven of...

For fans of Nightbitch and While No One Is Watching, comes "one of the best books this year, or any year" (Paul Tremblay, author of The Cabin at the End of the World)--a disturbing dystopian thrillfest about a woman moving to a glittering town...

This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature. In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards: 1. Type-setting & Reformatting: The...

After years of searching for family, someone to hold on to, Braxton Ross finds a half sister. He tries to integrate into her life, family, and friends. For a while, he believes he can be this person--stable, reliable, calm, and worthy. But he realizes...

SOON TO BE A NEW FILM, STREAMING ON MAX FALL OF 2024 - #1 BESTSELLER - Ben Mears has returned to Jerusalem's Lot in hopes that exploring the history of the Marsten House, an old mansion long the subject of rumor and speculation, will...

Six weeks of friendship. A lifetime paying for it. They were the cool girls. Two years older, oozing glamour. She could prove herself worthy of their friendship. She could do the dare. Twenty-five years later, Lucy has a perfect life. She is still friends...

Author Linda Smolkin returns with her most thought-provoking story yet-filled with moral dilemmas, unexpected discoveries, and a dash of rock-n-roll and suspense.A drummer girl. A list of names. A quest for justice.Emma Meade, an ex-drummer mourning the loss of her brother, discovers an abandoned...