Showing results for "Psycho" in Horror

It was a dark and stormy night when Mary Crane glimpsed the unlit neon sign announcing the vacancy at the Bates Motel. Exhausted, lost, and at the end of her rope, she was eager for a hot shower and a bed for the night. Her room was musty but clean, and the manager seemed nice, if a little odd...

'Jane Eyre meets American Psycho. Gloriously outrageous, sensationally unhinged' SUNDAY TIMES ‘Simmering with rage, propulsive and laugh-out-loud funny' CATRIONA WARD 'Weird and wonderful' LUCY MANGAN, GUARDIAN Winifred Notty arrives at Ensor House prepared to play the perfect Victorian...

When the Bates Motel looms up out of the storm, Mary Crane thinks it is her salvation. The rooms are musty but clean. The manager, Norman Bates, seems like a nice enough fellow, if a little strange. Then Mary decides to take a shower, and the nightmare begins....

My secret is finally out. I am a Boneweaver, and the last of my kind: A beast who can shift into any other. Now there’s an elephant sized target on my back and two people I love have been taken from me. In order to get them back, I’m going to have to do the unthinkable: present myself to the most dangerous beasts of the underworld and Scythe Kharkorous is going to help me do it. The Great White shark with the sharp, cold eyes has plans no one can guess at and the devastating secret he’s about to reveal to me will turn my world upside down. Everything is about to change.

You remember Norman Bates, the shy motel manager with the fatal mother fixation. Now, years after his horrific bout of butchery, Norman is at large again. Breaking free from the psycho ward, he cuts a shocking swath of blood all the way to Hollywood - where, it so happens, they are making a movie about Norman’s life and crimes. A movie that suddenly and terrifyingly becomes a lot like real life.

The new Bates Motel is a tourist attraction, a re-creation of the infamous murder site, and the developers are already counting their profits. But there’s a new exhibit that nobody expected: the bloody corpse of a teenage girl crumpled in the front hall, stabbed to death. Among the avalanche of press and publicity is reporter and true-crime book writer Amelia Haines, who is studying the original Psycho killings.

Ein Internat für übernatürlich talentierte, psychisch erkrankte Jugendliche. Und fünf Freunde, die einen Mord aufklären. Als Noah wegen einer erneuten ungewollten Verwandlung von der Schule verwiesen wird, bricht für ihn eine Welt zusammen. Doch dann bekommt der Identitätswandler an der Akademie eine neue Chance. Auf dem Internat für Psychalents lernt er, seine Gabe zu kontrollieren. Und nicht nur das. Zum ersten Mal erfährt er, was es heißt, Freunde zu haben. Und wie es sich anfühlt, verliebt zu sein. Allerdings ist nicht alles auf Burg Auwia zauberhaft.

“Horror author Chet Williamson ably succeeds in the tough task of creating a sequel to Robert Bloch’s masterpiece, Psycho; a prequel to the less effective Psycho II; and a solid story in its own right…The novel shines. Whenever Norman gets the spotlight, the novel feels like a lost Bloch...

Vlad Kuznetsov is a psychopath—a killing machine. Experimented on from a young age by a mad scientist, he cannot feel anything. No pain. No remorse. No regret. His violent episodes make him a danger to society, so he’s learned to live in the shadows. Alone is safer. Alone means control. Until her. Assisi Lastra. The little nun with fire in her eyes. She should fear him—everyone else does. But instead, she stands toe-to-toe with the devil and dares him to feel.

Credevo di aver trovato un posto a cui appartenere. Credevo di aver trovato loro. Malice, Victor e Ransom. Tre fratelli tanto pericolosi quanto irresistibili, pronti a trascinarmi in un mondo fatto di segreti, desiderio e caos. Al loro fianco ho scoperto una parte di me che non conoscevo, un'oscurità che avevo sempre cercato di nascondere… e che con loro ha finalmente trovato libertà. Ma la verità ha un prezzo.

Avec son sourire carnassier et ses costumes chics, Patrick Bateman est l'incarnation du golden boy new-yorkais. Mais, à la nuit tombante, il laisse libre cours à sa démence. En bon serial killer, Patrick viole, torture et tue. Dans un monde lisse de tout sentiment, jusqu'où l'horreur peut-elle aller ?

Ich bin eine Prinzessin, die sich in einer Akademie für Übernatürliche als Junge versteckt. Aber das ist keine normale Schule, wir werden zu Attentätern ausgebildet. Ich muss einfach nur überleben. Doch ich habe nicht mit den über zwei Meter großen Kriegern gerechnet, die sich selbst Könige nennen. Mit ihren seltsamen Tätowierungen, ihrem umwerfenden Aussehen und ihrer Kraft sind sie anders als alle Männer, die ich bisher kennengelernt habe. Sie halten mich für einen hübschen Jungen. Sie denken, ich wäre verwöhnt. Sie glauben, ich sei nicht stark genug. Ich werde ihnen das Gegenteil beweisen.

Als Aran mit den Teufeln tanzte. An ihre Feinde gekettet, wird Aran gezwungen, mit ihnen an den brutalen Legionärsspielen teilzunehmen. Sie wollen sie brechen. Aber man kann nichts brechen, was bereits zerbrochen ist. Und wenn erst einmal ihre Geheimnisse aufgedeckt werden, wird sie sie in die Knie zwingen.

Dopo la tragica perdita dei genitori, Willow è sola, disperata e con il mondo intero che sembra volerla schiacciare. I tre fratelli Voronin non la uccidono. La tengono. La osservano. E, in modi diversi e oscuri, la vogliono. Ora Willow è intrappolata, sotto lo sguardo di tre predatori tanto affascinanti quanto pericolosi. Se non riuscirà a fuggire, rischia di perdersi nei loro giochi perversi, nei loro segreti più torbidi e nel peccato che li lega.

What if all the villains of slasher movies were real? What if the movies made about them were just adaptations of real-life killers with supernatural powers? This is a fact known to William and Carrie because their father, Billy the Undying, was one of the worst slashers of all time. So much so that they've spent the past decade in an asylum out of fear they'd end up just like him. Escaping, the two have decided to form a new life on the road. Except, a chance encounter in a dingy diner introduces William to the girl of his dreams.

SOON TO BE A FEATURE FILM STARRING MARGARET QUALLEY AND THOMASIN MCKENZIE Named one of the Most Anticipated Books of 2025 by Oprah Daily, Reader's Digest, Polygon, and Paste “Simmering with rage, propulsive and laugh out loud funny, Victorian Psycho speaks profoundly of horror both within and...

Il romanzo gotico che ha conquistato la critica e ispirato l’omonimo film. Inverno 1858. A Ensor House, elegante dimora nella campagna inglese, la nuova istitutrice Winifred Notty nasconde un segreto inquietante. Dietro le buone maniere con cui educa i bambini di casa Pounds, Miss Notty...

Bist du bereit für den Krieg? Ich habe meine Fähigkeiten entdeckt ... aber das war nur der Anfang. Malum, Scorpius und Orion kämpfen jetzt für mich. Ihre Macht ist überwältigend. Das Gemetzel ist erschütternd. Der Rat will, dass ich sie kontrolliere, aber Monster kann man nicht an die...

El señor y la señora Pounds han contratado a Winifred Notty para que cumpla el rol de la perfecta institutriz victoriana: dará clases a sus pupilos (francés y costura a Drusilla y álgebra e historia al pequeño Andrew) y les contará cuentos antes de dormir. Pero Ensor House y sus habitantes ocultan más perversiones y secretos que la perturbada señorita Notty, capaz de convertir un té con elegantes invitados y bebés en el salón en un acontecimiento macabro.

A collection of short horror stories for those who like to look at the macabre, the weird, the gory, the insane... but just can't quite commit to performing the vile things they see in their heads. This book is for those people who wake up in the morning and wonder if they are okay... really okay. There are tales of engagements gone wrong, marriages gone wrong, doctor visits gone wrong, summer camp gone wrong, Naval service gone wrong, housekeeping gone wrong... people gone wrong. You may have stories of your own about those who have snapped. You hope it never happens to you, but it will.