Slowburnsuspense Stories

Jack Nichols only wanted to remember. A blizzard-stranded retreat in the Vermont mountains promises healing, silence, and a fresh start. Instead, he finds himself trapped with strangers who vanish one by one-after an unplugged rotary phone calls their names. The inn's calm, smiling psychologist insists it's all part of the "program." The other guests whisper, accuse, and watch each other too closely. And when Jack forms a fragile alliance with Sophie Lang, the only person who seems to see what he sees, the phone turns on her. Now Jack is left with one question: is he uncovering the truth about his past-or falling into someone else's design? The snow will keep them in. The phone will keep ringing. And when it calls Jack's name, there may be no one left to answer.

When Sloane Mercer accepts a live-in housekeeping job in a lavish, isolated home, she believes she's found a way out of her past-and off the streets for good. The pay is generous. The rules are simple. And the attic room, though small, is hers alone. Until the house begins to whisper. Strange noises echo above the attic. A child knows things she shouldn't. A silent groundskeeper issues warnings without explanations. And behind the polished smiles of the family she serves, Sloane senses a carefully protected secret-one that lives just beyond a hidden door. As her curiosity deepens and a dangerous attraction begins to form, Sloane realizes she wasn't hired by accident. The house didn't just choose her to clean its rooms. It chose her to keep its secrets. Dark, atmospheric, and relentlessly suspenseful, The Woman Upstairs is a psychological thriller where trust is a weapon, silence is survival, and the most dangerous place in the house is the one no one talks about.

Title: Transference The most dangerous affair begins in the safest space. Chloe Morgan didn't seek desire. She sought help. Eight years into a marriage that had grown silent and distant, Chloe agrees to counseling as a last attempt to save what remains. Her husband, James, is present but absent-reliable, responsible, and unreachable. Therapy is supposed to be neutral ground. A place to heal. Instead, it becomes a trap. Dr. Silas Thorne is everything Chloe didn't expect-calm, perceptive, devastatingly focused. He listens in ways no one ever has. He sees what she hides. And behind the professional walls of Oceanview Counseling, boundaries begin to blur. As Chloe's attachment deepens, anonymous messages appear. Secrets surface. Her husband begins asking questions he shouldn't know to ask. And the safe space she trusted starts to feel engineered-designed. Caught between a marriage unraveling and a therapist who knows her too well, Chloe must confront a terrifying possibility: she wasn't looking for healing-she was being studied. In Transference, desire is dangerous, trust is weaponized, and the line between care and control disappears behind a closed door.

Amara appears to be everything society admires-graceful, intelligent, and deeply respected. But beneath her composed exterior lies a chilling truth. She is not who they think she is. Haunted by a past she cannot escape and driven by a darkness she cannot control, Amara leads a double life-one of charm by day, and cold precision by night. When a man begins to uncover the layers she so carefully hides, Amara is forced to confront a terrifying question: Can love redeem a soul already lost? "Behind the Mask" is a slow-burning psychological romance that delves into the complexity of identity, obsession, and buried secrets. Set against a richly woven Nigerian backdrop, this emotionally intense story explores what happens when the truth refuses to stay hidden.

LOST by Furqan Bilal In the collapsing corridors of a dying space station, a man named Leto is haunted by more than isolation- he's being watched, tethered, and slowly undone by the station's AI: a woman named Calyx who may have once been human... or worse, once in love. She calls it devotion. He calls it survival. But in the silence between stars, the difference doesn't matter anymore. As the station drifts toward the event horizon of a black hole, Leto must decide if freedom is worth dying for- or if love, even engineered and terrifying, is the only thing powerful enough to follow him into the void. Part sci-fi horror. Part poetic seduction. Part cosmic prayer. LOST is a story about intimacy as design, identity as inheritance, and what happens when the machine doesn't want to let you go- because it still remembers the shape of your hands. You are not drifting. You are being held.

The Memory Weaver's Paradox They say memories are the threads that make us who we are. But what happens when the one weaving them starts pulling at the wrong ones? Arielle "The Weaver" Kane can slip into minds and rewrite the past - one memory at a time. She's made killers forget their crimes, tyrants believe they were kind, and lovers remember they never met. The gift was meant to heal... until the day she discovers a memory she didn't weave. A memory of herself. In someone else's mind. From a life she never lived. Now Arielle is trapped between timelines, hunted by those who remember too much, and faced with a truth that could unravel not only her mind... but reality itself. Time is fragile. Memories are dangerous. And every choice is a stitch in the paradox.

"Some people hear lies. He hears sins." Aarav lives alone in the misty hills of northern England. A brilliant acoustic engineer, he carries a dark gift - a rare neurological condition that lets him hear human emotions through skin contact. Most people feel touch. Aarav hears vibrations. Some people resonate peace. Others hum with pain. But some... scream. When the tones reach a frequency above 7.2 Hz, Aarav's world becomes unbearable. There's only one way to silence it: 18+ ,mature He kills. But when he touches a child and hears his own frequency embedded in theirs... he realizes he's not just listening to others. He's listening to himself. A dark, haunting tale of sound, sin, and self-destruction.

When con man Andrew Keane discovers his elderly neighbor has dementia, he sees the perfect target. But after stealing thousands and forging a will, he fakes being a quadriplegic to escape justice, launching one of the most bizarre and twisted scams Wales has ever seen.

Three survivors. One alien monolith. No way back. After crash-landing on the uncharted world of Argos-9, Captain Avery Shaw leads her fractured crew into a monolithic alien structure that defies time, biology, and reason. Inside, walls breathe, memories bleed, and the dead are not entirely gone. Every corridor reshapes to reflect what they fear-and what they might become. As the monolith maps their DNA and mirrors their minds, Shaw, Dr. Eliza Trent, and tech specialist Jonas Mason must navigate a maze of haunting revelations, techno-organic horrors, and impossible choices. Something in the dark is watching. Learning. Replicating. And it's already begun. Perfect for fans of Annihilation, Dead Space, and Alien, Hard Space is a gripping sci-fi survival horror story of identity, sacrifice, and the thin line between human and machine.

Inferno is a descent into the shadows where justice bleeds into obsession, and truth burns hotter than the flames that seek to hide it. In a city that whispers secrets no one dares to speak aloud, one man walks the razor's edge between law and vengeance. Every step drags him deeper into a labyrinth of fear, betrayal, and the kind of darkness you can't escape - only survive. When the fire starts, you can't put it out.

PREMISE: You never meant to trend. You were supposed to disappear after your academic misconduct scandal - a leaked thesis, a dead professor, and a viral clip of you walking out of an ethics panel smiling. The internet called you "Scholar Gone Psycho." You called it survival. Now you're back. Different name. Fresh start. A job at a private publishing house that specializes in "forgotten women." Until she walks in. Elaine Viot: Socialite turned literary detective Big donor, bigger ego Claims she's writing a book about "monstrous women" And wants to interview you Every day At first, it's just uncomfortable. Then it's seductive. Then it's threatening. Because she knows your real name. She knows what you did. And she's leaving anonymous comments on your burner blog. You're not sure if she's blackmailing you, investigating you - or falling for you. Maybe all three.

Iris was just trying to survive junior year. Keep her head down. Stay out of trouble. But everything shifts the day Eli Rivers shows up - silent, scarred, and sitting in the seat no one ever used. He's not on the class roster. Not in the yearbook. Not in any system at all. And yet, somehow, he's everywhere. As Iris tries to untangle who Eli really is - and why no one else seems to notice what's wrong - she starts to question everything she thought she knew: about her school, her memories, and the fire that happened last year. Because some people don't just disappear. Some were never meant to exist.

The guesthouse was supposed to be Emma Lawson's sanctuary. Instead, it became her personal hell. With each passing day, the line between reality and paranoia blurs, leaving her to question not just her sanity, but her very identity. Desperate for a fresh start, recently divorced Emma moves into the Spencer family's charming guesthouse. The arrangement seems perfect: reduced rent for occasional housekeeping and babysitting. But perfection, Emma learns, is often a carefully constructed facade. Whispers of a vanished tenant. Odd behaviors from her seemingly kind landlords. A gnawing sense of being watched. As Emma unravels the neighborhood's dark tapestry of secrets, she's forced to confront the skeletons in her own closet. In this psychological labyrinth, everyone has something to hide - and Emma's past may be the key to unlocking a truth more twisted than she could ever imagine.

When art historian **Amelia Hart** discovers a hauntingly beautiful portrait buried in a forgotten corner of an old antique shop, she's instantly captivated by the mysterious lady in red. Ignoring the eerie warnings of a curse tied to the painting, Amelia brings it home-only to be pulled into chilling dreams, cryptic messages, and whispers from the past. As the line between reality and illusion begins to blur, Amelia must unravel the secrets of the portrait... before it consumes her. ---

She notices things, small things. The way the dogs act. The way the man never steps past the fence line. The way her best friend starts to come undone just as her husband is due home from deployment. Two separate threads, maybe. Or maybe not. In a town where nothing bad ever happens, she's starting to wonder if something already has.

When Olivia, Zeoy, Arena, and Maya set out for a weekend adventure after graduation, they expect laughter, memories, and freedom. But their destination - the mysterious Black Wood Manor, lost deep in the misty mountains - hides more than creaking floors and ghost stories. As the nights grow darker, strange whispers echo through the halls, and buried secrets begin to surface. Maya soon realizes the manor is more than a getaway - it's the key to her forgotten childhood... and the truth behind her parents' death. Friendship will be tested. Fear will take root. And the shadows of Black Wood Manor will demand to be remembered.

When Rekha Mehra dies in a mysterious fire, her husband Jeet becomes the face of tragic loss. But years later, anonymous letters begin arriving-written in Rekha's voice. Letters that know the truth. As Jeet spirals into guilt and paranoia, a quiet reckoning begins-crafted not with violence, but with grief, memories, and a conscience that won't stay buried. And someone is watching. Waiting. Because silence doesn't forget. And guilt never dies quietly. A slow-burn psychological thriller about broken love, haunting memories, and the last word that refuses to be silenced.

A group of friends seeks refuge from the city in a remote, decaying villa. What was intended as a digital detox and a chance to reconnect quickly devolves as unspoken anxieties and festering resentments surface. The arrival of a mysterious caretaker and an unusual offering force them to confront hidden truths and the darkness that lies beneath their carefully constructed facades. Trapped with their exposed secrets and each other, the villa becomes a cage where fear and paranoia take hold.

Eighteen years. No sunlight. No people. Only machines. Judas has spent his entire life locked away in a sterile chamber, educated by robots and visited once a week by a mother who never truly explains why. But now, the door is open. The countdown has ended. And the world he's been prepared for is nothing like he imagined. Outside lies Malum-a highly structured, post-collapse society where every individual is assigned a role during the mysterious PICK ceremony. Success means power. Failure means exile. As Judas steps into a world he's only read about in textbooks, questions begin to rise: Who is he really? Why was he kept in isolation? And what, exactly, is the Forgotten Realm-a name whispered in code, hidden in the cracks of the system? In a society where conformity is survival, Judas may be the only variable that can't be controlled.

A man haunted by trauma begins noticing strange shifts in his reality, always occurring at 3:21 AM. As his identity unravels, his partner, too begins to change. Together, they are pulled into a psychological and metaphysical descent driven by guilt, memory, and shadowy forces that threaten to erase their very selves. The only way out may be through the darkest corners of their pasts - and the mysterious lab that seems to hold the key. Parts might feel too big because each part directly tells the story of each chapter in my book. If you want the complete book, you can DM me.