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.

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.

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. ---

Detective Knox and his partner Monroe are drawn into a harrowing case when Evelyn, a young woman with fragmented memories of a childhood fire, becomes the key to unraveling a decades-old conspiracy. Beneath the ruins of an abandoned orphanage, they discover a secret government experiment-CANDOR-where children subjected to psychological trauma were studied and controlled. As Evelyn's memories return, she confronts Silas, the boy she left behind in the fire, now a vengeful killer who uses fire and silence as his twisted language. The Echo Killer's deadly game leads Knox and Evelyn into a race against time aboard a subterranean train carrying lost children, survivors of the experiment, where truths about betrayal, survival, and memory ignite in a final, explosive confrontation. In the aftermath, Evelyn and Knox confront the scars left by trauma and cover-up, striving to break the cycle of silence and bring justice to forgotten victims. The fire may have tried to erase their past, but its echo lingers-reminding them that some silences can never truly be broken.

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.

Aubrey Glass vanished after a party. No one saw her leave. No one knew where she went. And no one thought to suspect the quiet boy sitting in the back of the cafeteria, taking notes. Micah Reed doesn't talk much. Most students don't even remember the sound of his voice. But he's always watching-recording reactions, dissecting lies, and planting fear like seeds. With each missing clue, each whispered rumor, Micah is crafting the perfect narrative. Because this isn't just a mystery. It's a story. And Micah isn't just part of it. He's writing it. When anonymous flowers begin appearing, secrets unravel, and suspects fall apart, everyone starts asking: Who's behind Aubrey's disappearance? But the real question is: Who's been controlling the story all along? A psychological thriller told through chilling narration, obsessive details, and an unforgettable final twist-The Quiet One will leave you questioning everything you think you know about guilt, innocence, and the ones who go unseen.

She wears a flawless mask to hide what lurks beneath - but when the mask shatters, what remains? Without the porcelain face, who is she really? In the darkness beyond the beauty, a terrifying truth waits - and losing the mask might mean losing herself forever.

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.

Brimstone Gulch, Arizona Territory, was never an ordinary town. Beneath its dust-choked streets and whispered superstitions lies a truth darker than anyone dares to admit. When former Marshal Wyatt "Rook" Calderas arrives in town tracking a pattern of mysterious disappearances, he finds more than just missing persons. Strange symbols carved into doorframes. Unsettling whispers about a decades-old cycle. A ravine where locals fear to tread. As townsfolk begin disappearing one by one, Rook uncovers dark secrets buried beneath layers of desert sand and time. Brimstone Gulch holds mysteries and rituals no one dares speak of openly. With each new disappearance, the town's façade crumbles further. With each passing day, the whispers from Whisper Ravine grow louder. And as a blood-red moon rises over the desert, Rook must embrace his own mysterious heritage. In a town where dust hides blood and shadows hold ancient dangers, what terrible price must be paid for truth? And if Rook discovers what truly lurks beneath Brimstone Gulch, can anyone survive the revelation? When you step into Brimstone Gulch, you may never leave... A Western thriller infused with relentless mystery, bone-chilling horror, and edge-of-your-seat suspense. The deeper you dig, the darker it gets.

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.

"The flood chooses. The mansion seals." Newlyweds Rhea and Arjun Vardhan dreamt of a perfect honeymoon. But nature had darker plans. A monstrous flood rips through their journey, forcing them to seek shelter in an ancient mansion nestled atop a forgotten mountain-one not found on any map, and one that never should've been found. What was meant to be temporary refuge soon turns into a chilling entrapment. The mansion is vast, unsettlingly quiet, and disturbingly sentient. Doors close on their own. Whispers echo through the halls. Hidden rooms reveal secrets not meant for the living. As Arjun's childhood fear of floods resurfaces, Rhea-highly intelligent and instinctively drawn to the mysterious-starts uncovering fragments of a horrifying truth: recorded sessions of a long-missing psychiatrist, Dr. Elijah Vale, whose experiments were meant to erase human emotion entirely. The deeper she digs, the darker it gets. Every room holds a secret. Every secret reveals a sin. And someone, or something, still roams the mansion... watching. Waiting. As Rhea begins to understand Elijah Vale's twisted mind, she realizes she might be the only one clever enough to stop what he started. But the mansion isn't just haunted by the past-it's bound by it. What if escaping means losing not just Arjun-but her own sanity? What if the flood didn't bring them to safety... but delivered them to their fate?

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.

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.

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.

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.

"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 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.

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.

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.