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The Eyes Are the Best Part

Monika Kim · 304 pages

Psychological HorrorVillain ProtagonistHorrorDark
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Misery

Stephen King · 370 pages

The tale of a writer who has a bad car accident out in the country. He is "rescued" by a psychopath who holds him hostage until he finally builds the strength to escape.

Psychological HorrorVillain ProtagonistHorrorDark
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The Face That Must Die

Ramsey Campbell · 247 pages

Psychological HorrorVillain ProtagonistHorrorDark
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American Psycho

Bret Easton Ellis · 399 pages

Psychological HorrorVillain ProtagonistDarkHorror
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The Cask of Amontillado

Edgar Allan Poe · 30 pages

"The Cask of Amontillado" (sometimes spelled "The Casque of Amontillado" [a.mon.ti.ˈʝa.ðo]) is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in the November 1846 issue of Godey's Lady's Book. The story, set in an unnamed Italian city at carnival time in an unspecified year, is about a man taking fatal revenge on a friend who, he believes, has insulted him. Like several of Poe's

Psychological HorrorVillain ProtagonistHorrorDark
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Baby Teeth

Zoje Stage · 304 pages

Afflicted with a chronic debilitating condition, Suzette Jensen knew having children would wreak havoc on her already fragile body. Nevertheless, she brought Hanna into the world, pleased and proud to start a family with her husband Alex. Estranged from her own mother, Suzette is determined to raise her beautiful daughter with the love, care, and support she was denied. But Hanna proves to be a di

Psychological HorrorVillain ProtagonistHorrorDark
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Robert Louis Stevenson · 138 pages

Mr. Gabriel Utterson is a serious, austere lawyer living a humdrum life in Victorian London. Yet there is a strange clause in his friend, Dr. Henry Jekyll's will: should he disappear for more than 3 months, everything will be inherited by Hyde. But after Edward Hyde's darker nature is revealed one dark winters night, Mr. Utterson begins to investigate the connection between the two men, and finds

Psychological HorrorVillain ProtagonistDarkHorror
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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

Patrick Suskind · 272 pages

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • Set in eighteenth-century France, the classic novel that provokes a terrifying examination of what happens when one man’s indulgence in his greatest passion—his sense of smell—leads to murder. In the slums of eighteenth-century France, the infant Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born with one sublime gift—an absolute sense of smell. As a boy, he lives to decipher the odors

Psychological HorrorVillain ProtagonistDarkViolent
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The Collector

John Fowles · 288 pages

Fowles’ stunning debut is a study of a lonely young sociopath who kidnaps the woman he has fixated on, keeping her in his cellar in the belief that she will eventually come to love him. The story is narrated in turns by the young man and his captive, giving two opposing points of view.

Psychological HorrorVillain ProtagonistDarkFirst Person Narrator
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Don't Let the Forest In

C.G. Drews · 352 pages

Psychological HorrorHorrorDarkViolent
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The Retribution of Mara Dyer

Michelle Hodkin · 480 pages

Mara Dyer wants to believe there's more to the lies she's been told. There is. She doesn't stop to think about where her quest for the truth might lead. She should. She never had to imagine how far she would go for vengeance. She will now. Loyalties are betrayed, guilt and innocence tangle, and fate and chance collide in this shocking conclusion to Mara Dyer's story. Retribution has arrived. Loya

Psychological HorrorHorrorDarkViolent
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The Cremator

Ladislav Fuks · 180 pages

Psychological HorrorVillain ProtagonistDarkHorror
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The Funhouse

Dean Koontz · 326 pages

Years after leaving the carnival, her hated first husband, and the child she could never love, Ellen has a new life, a new husband, and two beautiful children, but now the carnival is coming back to town, and Ellen is going to have to pay for her sins.

Psychological HorrorHorrorDarkViolent
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I Am Alice

Joseph Delaney · 448 pages

"Alice Dean's destiny is intertwined with Tom Ward's. But he's going to be the next Spook, and she's a witch--possibly the most powerful one the county has ever seen. To rid the world of its greatest evil, the Fiend, Alice will venture into the depths of the dark"-- Alice is a witch. possibly the most powerful the County has ever seen, and to rid the world of its greatest evil, the Fiend, Alice v

AfterlifeHorrorDarkViolent
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No One Gets Out Alive

Adam Nevill

"When Stephanie moves to the notoriously cheap Perry Bar neighborhood of Birmingham, she's just happy to find an affordable room for rent that's large enough not to deserve her previous room's nickname, "the cell." The eccentric -- albeit slightly overly-friendly -- landlord seems nice and welcoming enough, the ceilings are high, and all of the other tenants are also girls. Things aren't great, bu

Psychological HorrorHorrorDarkViolent
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A Short Stay in Hell

Steven L. Peck · 104 pages

An ordinary family man, geologist, and Mormon, Soren Johansson has always believed he’ll be reunited with his loved ones in an eternal hereafter. Then, he dies. Soren wakes to find himself cast by a God he has never heard of into a Hell whose dimensions he can barely grasp: a vast library he can only escape from by finding the book that contains the story of his life. In this haunting existenti

Psychological HorrorAfterlifeDarkHorror
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Shy Girl

Mia Ballard · 247 pages

Psychological HorrorHorrorDarkViolent
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The Blood Confession

Alisa M. Libby

Erzebet is young, beautiful, rich, and imprisoned in her castle, waiting to be sentenced for murder. In a brilliant fiction debut, Alisa M. Libby resurrects the real-life Erzebet Bathory, a seventeenth-century countess who believed that bathing in human blood would preserve her looks forever. The jailed countess tells her story from her birth, which was overshadowed by a bad omen, to her mother's

Villain ProtagonistDarkHorrorViolent
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Bunny

Mona Awad · 305 pages

Psychological HorrorHorrorDarkFirst Person Narrator
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The Girl Next Door

Jack Ketchum · 370 pages

Psychological HorrorHorrorDarkViolent
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Plastic Monsters

Daniel J. Volpe · 198 pages

Beauty is...painBut for Pamela Rose beauty is everything. She spends every day and almost every dollar fighting a losing battle against nature. When a young coworker comes to the office with a new set of breast implants, Pam's delicate psyche begins to crack. Doctor Joseph DiBiro used to make art from flesh and plastic, but after his release from prison the only thing he's handling is a broom. He

Psychological HorrorHorrorDarkViolent
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Museum of Terror, Vol. 1: Tomie 1

Junji Ito · 376 pages

Psychological HorrorHorrorDarkViolent
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A Special Place: The Heart of a Dark Matter

Peter Straub · 136 pages

A boy, Keith Hayward, is drawn to an irresistible fascination with death and the taking of life. His Uncle Till, who has led a shadowy career as local celebrity "Ladykiller," recognizes his nephew's nature and tutors him in the art of doing ill without getting caught.

Psychological HorrorHorrorDarkViolent
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Little Star

John Ajvide Lindqvist · 533 pages

John Ajvide Lindqvist has been crowned the heir apparent to Stephen King by numerous sources, and he is heralded around the globe as one of the most spectacularly talented horror writers working today. His first novel, Let the Right One In, is a cult classic that has been made into iconic films in both Sweden and in the United States. His second novel, Handling the Undead, is beloved by horror fan

Psychological HorrorHorrorDarkViolent

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