Slowburnthriller Stories

Mystry and thriller

They don't kill people. They kill identities. When out-of-work coder Erin Cross lands a dream job at Covenant Analytics, she thinks she's finally escaped a life of instability. The sleek tech firm offers more than just money-it promises purpose: "Protecting global digital truth." But behind the glass walls and wellness slogans lies something far more insidious. After stumbling on corrupted files tied to a woman who no longer exists-T. Madsen-Erin discovers Covenant isn't a consultancy. It's a privatized erasure agency, deleting people not from the world, but from history. Names vanish. Digital footprints disintegrate. Entire lives rewritten or scrubbed from existence. Now Erin is marked for deletion. With only a rogue engineer, a discredited whistleblower, and her younger brother to trust, she must expose the truth-before she becomes its next ghost. But when truth is managed by AI and memory can be rewritten, the real question isn't who's lying. It's who's left to remember.

"You looked so pretty tonight." A single text. An unknown number. And a gaze that never leaves her. When Clara moves into a quiet neighborhood, she expects the kind of peace most people crave - morning coffee, late-night rain, a life small enough to be safe. But safety ends the night she receives a message from D. Ruelle - a name she's never heard, a watcher she can't see. Her boyfriend Aiden promises to protect her. Her friends tell her it's just a prank. But the messages keep coming. The locks change themselves. And the line between protection and possession begins to blur. Because whoever D. Ruelle is... he's always one step ahead. And he's not hiding in the shadows anymore. - a psychological thriller by R.J. BlackLuna ---

Until the Bell Rings Seonghwa High seemed normal - crowded halls, whispered crushes, a new student nobody could figure out. But when a strange infection begins spreading just beyond the campus gates, normal disappears. As panic creeps closer, Class 2-3 is forced to make an impossible choice: stay and survive... or run and leave others behind. Not all of them will choose the same thing. And not all of them will stay human. All Rights Reserved©️

Elara walks through life like a shadow - silent, unnoticed, forgettable. But the day she finds a strange bookstore that wasn't there before, everything begins to change. A dusty diary with no title. A diary that already knows her name. A reflection that doesn't move. And secrets that were never meant for her. Some books are written to be read. This one was written to remember.

Four friends go on a camping trip to reconnect. Only one returns. As accidents turn into murders, Sam begins to see patterns- and all roads lead back to one person hiding behind a borrowed name. Buried memories. Fake identities. A past that never died. And a girl who refuses to be forgotten.

Last Seen in Red - Description In February of 1969, a town begins to unravel-not with an explosion, not with a scream, but with a feeling no one can explain. Loriena is everywhere and nowhere. A schoolgirl with a polite smile. A shadow that lingers too long. A name spoken softer each time it's repeated. What begins as an ordinary Valentine's season-cards, laughter, red ribbons in shop windows-slowly twists into something unrecognizable. Streets empty earlier. Conversations stop mid-sentence. A melody drifts through the town, familiar yet impossible to place, leaving unease in its wake. No one can agree on what happened. Some swear they saw her. Some insist she never existed. Others believe the fear itself became the truth. As decades pass, the town modernizes, but the legend refuses to age. Files vanish. Witnesses contradict one another. Children dare each other to say her name. Adults avoid certain places without knowing why. By the time the story reaches 2011, Loriena is no longer just a person-she is a myth shaped by memory, silence, and guilt. Last Seen in Red is a psychological horror novel told through fragmented diary entries, rumors, and shifting perspectives. It explores how fear evolves, how legends are born, and how some presences don't need to be seen to be felt. Because some stories don't end. They wait. And some melodies never stop playing

The story is about two siblings, Thomas and Ramus, who go on about their daily lives in UK, London. But one of them has secrets that the other doesn't know. Slowly uncovering eerie events and secrets that turns their lives around. The story starts when Thomas was helping Ramus, his younger brother, and Carl, a friend of Ramus. The day goes normally, but at night, weird things start to happen. What are the secrets? Find out by reading The Crimson Siblings!

In the quiet desert town of Redwood Mesa, everyone thinks they know their neighbors. Cliff Gordon, a 19-year-old with a troubled past and a reputation he can't escape, knows better. He's always called his neighbor Lizzy Tyler "Lizard," the one person who saw him for who he truly is. Until she vanished. As suspicion swirls and the town looks for someone to blame, Cliff finds himself caught in a web of secrets, lies, and dangerous obsessions. Lizzy's best friend Mara may know more than she's letting on, Alana hides a dark truth, and the real threat is closer than anyone suspects. In a place where appearances are everything, and loyalty can be deadly, Cliff must uncover the truth before the quiet streets of Redwood Mesa swallow it-and him-whole. Across the Street is a gripping psychological thriller of obsession, betrayal, and the darkness lurking beneath small-town perfection.

Jay Mercer is invisible. Thirty-one years old, working nights at a warehouse, and living in a one-room apartment that smells faintly of dust and old books, he has spent most of his life watching other people live it. He doesn't have friends. He doesn't have family. He doesn't have a reason to be noticed. Until her. She's just a woman from his office - kind, bright, and utterly out of reach. Jay knows he'll never speak to her. He's content to admire her from a distance, to scroll through her world online late at night while the city sleeps. But admiration becomes curiosity, curiosity becomes fixation, and fixation begins to rewrite his life. In trying to shape himself into the kind of man she might see, Jay makes choices that ripple outward, tiny and harmless at first - until they're not. A missed train. A broken conversation. A chance encounter. Each decision tightens an invisible net, pulling strangers and acquaintances into a chain of events no one can stop. As tragedy coils around him, Jay must face a haunting truth: he isn't a monster. He's just lonely. And loneliness can be the most dangerous thing in the world.

In the dying town of Elmsway, brothers Danny and Luke Harker are bound by blood and broken by betrayal. Once legends of the streets, a single mistake tore them apart and set their world ablaze. Now, as a shadowy experiment known as Project Echo resurfaces, old loyalties fracture and the brothers are forced to face the sins that refuse to stay buried. Axes and Shadows is a gritty, heart-stopping thriller about family, redemption, and the cost of surviving the darkness that made you.

"She Left Without Leaving" They said she died peacefully. They lied. When Meera steps into the decaying house at the end of Hollow Street, she's not alone. Something lingers in the walls-soft footsteps, a presence in the mirror, a name whispered in the dark. The ghost doesn't want help. But Meera is determined to uncover the truth, even if it means tearing open wounds that were never meant to heal. Because this death wasn't natural. And the one who took her life is still hiding in plain sight. Some spirits wait for justice. Others wait for revenge.

Withdraw is a slow-burn psychological thriller about the blurred line between play and reality. When Elena signs up for The Cleaner, an immersive escape-room-style challenge where players must stage a crime scene to mislead investigators, she expects an elaborate puzzle and a shot of adrenaline. The waiver says plausibility over drama-and that's the game she's ready to play. But the deeper she goes, the more convincing the "props" feel. The metallic tang in the air. The misplaced phone recording her every move. The faint stain on the bedroom carpet. And the message that chills her blood: We're outside. Two minutes. What begins as a game of clever misdirection turns into a fight for survival, as Elena realizes she's not staging a scene-she's being trapped inside one.

A senior officer is found dead in a Putrajaya hotel. No struggle. No message. Just a red USB... and a name. Inspector Ariff Shah is pulled into a case the system wants buried. But the past has a way of resurfacing - and this time, it's personal. A Malaysian crime thriller. Slow-burn. Sharp. Dangerous.

Book One: Stephen Johnson

(Based on True Events from the Cicada 3301 mystery) Laura Steinberg is a special effects artist working on film sets in Seattle. When her mom begins an expensive cancer therapy, Laura begins taking side jobs, mimicking elderly clients conned out of their life savings. After recouping funds that belonged to one of her clients, the FBI along with a reclusive pharma executive take notice. Laura is hired to stage the executives death in order to reveal which family member may have been involved with his daughters death from nearly two decades ago. What Laura doesn't know is that the truth is much more dangerous then she could have ever imagined. Revealing a network involved with an online conspiracy that will leave her continuously contemplating her next move in the psychological maze. "The People We Think We Are" explores identity, surveillance, deception, and the stories we construct to survive ourselves.

CONTROL held. That was the mistake. After learning how the prison thinks, how it hesitates, and how it remembers its own flaws, the men inside United Penitentiary Facility stop watching and start deciding. BREAKPOINT isn't chaos. It's intention. The weakness is no longer theoretical. The timing is no longer accidental. And patience has run out. Gary, James, and Chip understand the cost of leadership when hesitation becomes action. Jason's instability turns from liability to spark. Ray's knowledge becomes dangerous. Emilio's crew is ready to turn disruption into cover. Bill Allen understands systems well enough to know exactly when they fail. And John Narramore-carrying secrets tied to money, power, and men who should never be named-realizes silence may no longer protect him. Above them all, Warden Joel Walsh faces a truth no system can escape: Once people stop reacting and start moving on purpose, CONTROL no longer owns time. BREAKPOINT is where restraint ends, lines are crossed, and every choice carries consequences that can't be undone. Not everyone will make it out. Not everyone will make the right move. But someone will move first. Because when the clock hesitates long enough, it stops owning you.

Louise doesn't believe in curses. But it's hard to ignore the whispers - the way people look at her when something terrible happens. First love. First loss. Then another boy. Another goodbye. And now... someone is watching. Notes. Flowers. Polaroids that shouldn't exist. And journal entries from a voice that claims to know her better than anyone else ever could. Everyone says to move on. But Louise can't shake the feeling that the past is circling back. That the person she trusted most is hiding in the silence. And this time, they're not just watching. They're waiting.