Slowburnthriller Stories

Mystry and thriller

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.

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.

Some paths were never lost - they were buried. When I set out on a quiet countryside walk, I expected nothing more than fresh air and a simple geocache. Instead, I found a message. Hidden beneath an old oak tree was the first clue - a fragment of a journal written by Nathaniel William Turner, a man who disappeared without a trace in 1983 while mapping forgotten public footpaths. Curiosity leads me deeper into the rural landscape, following a trail of hidden markers, buried containers, and long-abandoned routes that no longer appear on modern maps. But Turner wasn't just documenting lost paths. He was uncovering something far more dangerous. As the journey unfolds, I discover a hidden network of erased footpaths, illegal quarrying operations, and a secret that powerful people have spent decades trying to keep buried. And I'm not the only one following the trail. With each step north, the truth becomes clearer - and more dangerous. Because some paths don't just lead you forward. They lead you straight into the past... ...and not everyone wants it uncovered.

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©️

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.

"Everyone called her untouchable. Brilliant, ruthless, admired. I called her 'boss.' But loyalty is a mask I wear well-and secrets are knives kept sharp in silence." Daniel Vega never expected to land a job working for Cassandra Ward-the most powerful woman in the city. To the world, she's a visionary leader, a queenpin disguised as a reformer. To him, she's perfection itself: sharp, calculating, and always two steps ahead. But Daniel has his own secrets. And when loyalty begins to blur with obsession, the lines between devotion and danger twist into something no one sees coming. A slow-burn thriller of power, lies, and the one truth that can cut deepest of all.

Book One: Stephen Johnson

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

When the bombers come, no one knows why. No warnings. No enemy. No way to be sure who's telling the truth. In the fractured seaside town of Rosehaven, rival factions are forced into an uneasy alliance as fear spreads faster than facts. Mary-a bakery worker who's spent too long on the sidelines-volunteers to help uncover what's really happening. Paired with a man she doesn't trust, she follows a trail of strange symbols, missing people, and hidden weapons... until they uncover something far worse: A device that can guide destruction from the sky. Now Mary faces an impossible choice- change the target... or destroy the system entirely. Either way, people will die. And this time, the decision is hers.

"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 ---

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.

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.

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!

My dad has a secret. I don't know what it is. Perhaps I will never know. What I do know? Every young woman he has dated has disappeared. A killer who calls himself "The Collector" took them. And I think they're related.

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.

Disclaimer for readers: I changed the title from "Ice Mirror" because I liked this better. The title is what my lead characters call themselves behind locked doors, while the public continues to use the media monikers. ------------ Red rose, red rose, how do you bleed? A warning you give, all people take heed. The red rose weeps for all the lives she's claimed, And the rose gardener herself cannot be shamed. Tick tick tock, little hands on the clock. The timekeeper tracks every shadow, creak, and lock. The game is set. There's no turning back. And if you lose, your timeline goes black. Which one would you pick if you had to choose? They're both machines. In both games, you lose.

✨ The Decepted Self ✨ 🖋️ by Lekshmi A.H "Sometimes I forget who I am. Then the house reminds me." Ava Hayes once had everything - fame, love, and a future carved in ink and ambition. But after a devastating loss, the words disappeared. So did the light inside her. Now, desperate to heal, she and Lucas move into a forgotten house on the edge of nowhere. He says it's a fresh start. But the house remembers. The rooms shift. Time loops. And a journal appears - one that tells her story... before she's even lived it. As reality fractures and Ava spirals into a maze of guilt, grief, and ghosts, only Lucas keeps her grounded. But the deeper she falls, the more one question haunts her: What if the person she trusts most... was never real? 🕯️ A psychological thriller where memory is fragile, the past is a lie, and love might be the most dangerous illusion of all.

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.

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