Madness And Guilt Books | Summaries & Audio

The Tell-Tale Heart

by Edgar Allan Poe • 1980

A pale eye drives a lodger to murder. Police sit above. A dead heart pounds below.

4.24

129k+

🧠 Psychological Horror 🎭 Unreliable Narrator 🌀 Descent Into Madness 😨 Mounting Dread 🕯️ Gothic Atmosphere

The Tell-Tale Heart 90%

A pale eye drives a lodger to murder. Police sit above. A dead heart pounds below.

by Edgar Allan Poe 1980

4.24

129k+ ratings

🧠 Psychological Horror 🎭 Unreliable Narrator 🌀 Descent Into Madness 😨 Mounting Dread 🕯️ Gothic Atmosphere

Shakespeare

by Harold Bloom • 1998

Macbeth as a map of the mind: how ambition, guilt, and deception destroy from within.

4.03

4k+

🎭 Shakespearean Tragedy 🏛️ Early Modern Theatre 📜 Drama Criticism 🧠 Guilt And Paranoia 👑 Power And Tyranny

Shakespeare 88%

Macbeth as a map of the mind: how ambition, guilt, and deception destroy from within.

by Harold Bloom 1998

4.03

4k+ ratings

🎭 Shakespearean Tragedy 🏛️ Early Modern Theatre 📜 Drama Criticism 🧠 Guilt And Paranoia 👑 Power And Tyranny

Tales of Edgar Allan Poe

by Edgar Allan Poe • 1849

Gothic tales where guilt betrays the killer, cats witness murder, and no fortress keeps out death.

4.19

10k+

🧠 Psychological Horror 🗣️ Unreliable Narrator 🫀 Guilty Conscience 🌀 Descent Into Madness 🏚️ Decaying Mansion

Tales of Edgar Allan Poe 88%

Gothic tales where guilt betrays the killer, cats witness murder, and no fortress keeps out death.

by Edgar Allan Poe 1849

4.19

10k+ ratings

🧠 Psychological Horror 🗣️ Unreliable Narrator 🫀 Guilty Conscience 🌀 Descent Into Madness 🏚️ Decaying Mansion

Macbeth

by William Shakespeare • 1623

Three witches tell a Scottish general he will be king; his wife pushes him to murder.

3.89

1.0M+

🎭 Tragic Hero 🔮 Self-Fulfilling Prophecy 👻 Haunted By Guilt 🏴 Medieval Scotland 🌫️ Ominous Atmosphere

Macbeth 88%

Three witches tell a Scottish general he will be king; his wife pushes him to murder.

by William Shakespeare 1623

3.89

1.0M+ ratings

🎭 Tragic Hero 🔮 Self-Fulfilling Prophecy 👻 Haunted By Guilt 🏴 Medieval Scotland 🌫️ Ominous Atmosphere

The Essential Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

by Edgar Allan Poe • 1843

Madness, doomed beauty, and the birth of the detective: a journey into American Gothic.

4.36

70k+

🧠 Psychological Horror 🗣️ Unreliable Narrator 🌀 Descent Into Madness 👥 Doppelganger 🥀 Doomed Romance

The Essential Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe Summary

The Essential Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe 88%

Madness, doomed beauty, and the birth of the detective: a journey into American Gothic.

by Edgar Allan Poe 1843

4.36

70k+ ratings

🧠 Psychological Horror 🗣️ Unreliable Narrator 🌀 Descent Into Madness 👥 Doppelganger 🥀 Doomed Romance

The Black Cat

by Edgar Allan Poe • 2004

After he hangs his cat, a lookalike with a noose-shaped mark follows him home.

4.03

59k+

🧠 Psychological Horror 🎭 Unreliable Narrator 🌀 Descent Into Madness 🐈‍⬛ Animal Horror 🏠 Domestic Horror

The Black Cat 88%

After he hangs his cat, a lookalike with a noose-shaped mark follows him home.

by Edgar Allan Poe 2004

4.03

59k+ ratings

🧠 Psychological Horror 🎭 Unreliable Narrator 🌀 Descent Into Madness 🐈‍⬛ Animal Horror 🏠 Domestic Horror

The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings

by Edgar Allan Poe • 1967

Murder, madness, and the unquiet dead: the collected nightmares that invented modern horror.

4.13

4k+

🏚️ Gothic Horror 🧠 Psychological Horror 🗣️ Unreliable Narrator 🌀 Obsession And Madness 🪞 The Double Self

The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings Summary

The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings 87%

Murder, madness, and the unquiet dead: the collected nightmares that invented modern horror.

by Edgar Allan Poe 1967

4.13

4k+ ratings

🏚️ Gothic Horror 🧠 Psychological Horror 🗣️ Unreliable Narrator 🌀 Obsession And Madness 🪞 The Double Self

Die Physiker

by Friedrich Dürrenmatt • 1962

Feigning madness, three physicists hide a world-ending discovery from spies who share their asylum.

3.89

44k+

🎭 Feigned Madness ⚛️ Mad Scientist ☢️ Cold War Paranoia 🕵️ Rival Spies 🗡️ Sealed Room Thriller

Die Physiker 87%

Feigning madness, three physicists hide a world-ending discovery from spies who share their asylum.

by Friedrich Dürrenmatt 1962

3.89

44k+ ratings

🎭 Feigned Madness ⚛️ Mad Scientist ☢️ Cold War Paranoia 🕵️ Rival Spies 🗡️ Sealed Room Thriller

What Is Madness?

by Darian Leader • 2011

Delusions are self-repair, not error, and madness is a quiet spectrum, not a visible breakdown.

4.14

531

🛋️ Lacanian Psychoanalysis 🌪️ Psychosis 💭 Delusion 🧩 Meaning-Making 🏗️ Reality Construction

What Is Madness? 87%

Delusions are self-repair, not error, and madness is a quiet spectrum, not a visible breakdown.

by Darian Leader 2011

4.14

531 ratings

🛋️ Lacanian Psychoanalysis 🌪️ Psychosis 💭 Delusion 🧩 Meaning-Making 🏗️ Reality Construction

Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams

by Sylvia Plath • 1977

A psychiatric clinic secretary secretly collects patient dreams for a private archive of fear.

3.91

7k+

🏥 Psychiatric Setting 🌀 Dream Obsession 👁️ Unreliable Narrator 📝 Confessional Voice 🏠 Domestic Anxiety

Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams Summary

Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams 87%

A psychiatric clinic secretary secretly collects patient dreams for a private archive of fear.

by Sylvia Plath 1977

3.91

7k+ ratings

🏥 Psychiatric Setting 🌀 Dream Obsession 👁️ Unreliable Narrator 📝 Confessional Voice 🏠 Domestic Anxiety

The Spirit Engineer

by A.J. West • 2021

A Belfast engineer tests a medium's séances, hunting the afterlife while his own mind unravels.

3.64

3k+

🖤 Unreliable Narrator 🕯️ SéAnces And Mediums 😱 Descent Into Madness 🏚️ Historical Gothic 💔 Obsessive Grief

The Spirit Engineer 87%

A Belfast engineer tests a medium's séances, hunting the afterlife while his own mind unravels.

by A.J. West 2021

3.64

3k+ ratings

🖤 Unreliable Narrator 🕯️ SéAnces And Mediums 😱 Descent Into Madness 🏚️ Historical Gothic 💔 Obsessive Grief

The Best Minds

by Jonathan Rosen • 2023

He was the face of schizophrenia recovery. Then he murdered his pregnant fiancée.

4.03

18k+

🌪️ Schizophrenia Narratives 🔬 Forensic Psychiatry 🏛️ Insanity Defense 🏥 Deinstitutionalization 🎓 Meritocracy Critique

The Best Minds 87%

He was the face of schizophrenia recovery. Then he murdered his pregnant fiancée.

by Jonathan Rosen 2023

4.03

18k+ ratings

🌪️ Schizophrenia Narratives 🔬 Forensic Psychiatry 🏛️ Insanity Defense 🏥 Deinstitutionalization 🎓 Meritocracy Critique

Apartment 16

by Adam L.G. Nevill • 2010

An American inherits a London flat where something behind a locked door has waited for decades.

3.20

7k+

🖼️ Haunted Paintings 🏢 Sentient Building 🌀 Descent Into Madness 👻 Ghost Child 🔄 Generational Curse

Apartment 16 87%

An American inherits a London flat where something behind a locked door has waited for decades.

by Adam L.G. Nevill 2010

3.20

7k+ ratings

🖼️ Haunted Paintings 🏢 Sentient Building 🌀 Descent Into Madness 👻 Ghost Child 🔄 Generational Curse

The Raven

by Edgar Allan Poe • 1845

In a shadowy chamber, a scholar's grief summons a raven whose sole reply damns him to despair.

4.29

172k+

🖤 Gothic Poetry 👻 Haunted By Grief 🌀 Descent Into Madness 🐦‍⬛ Ominous Bird 🥀 Unreliable Narrator

The Raven 87%

In a shadowy chamber, a scholar's grief summons a raven whose sole reply damns him to despair.

by Edgar Allan Poe 1845

4.29

172k+ ratings

🖤 Gothic Poetry 👻 Haunted By Grief 🌀 Descent Into Madness 🐦‍⬛ Ominous Bird 🥀 Unreliable Narrator

Death Row

by Freida McFadden • 2025

On death row for her husband's murder, a woman glimpses him alive in the visiting room.

3.53

236k+

🎭 Unreliable Narrator 🏠 Domestic Thriller ⚠️ Fatal Misunderstanding ⚡ Death Row 🔒 Claustrophobic

Death Row 87%

On death row for her husband's murder, a woman glimpses him alive in the visiting room.

by Freida McFadden 2025

3.53

236k+ ratings

🎭 Unreliable Narrator 🏠 Domestic Thriller ⚠️ Fatal Misunderstanding ⚡ Death Row 🔒 Claustrophobic

The Complete Stories and Poems

by Edgar Allan Poe • 1849

Every tale and poem: madness, murder, mourning, and the birth of modern detective fiction.

4.40

298k+

🖤 Gothic Horror 🧠 Psychological Horror 🌑 Dark Romanticism 👥 DoppelgäNger 🤥 Unreliable Narrator

The Complete Stories and Poems 87%

Every tale and poem: madness, murder, mourning, and the birth of modern detective fiction.

by Edgar Allan Poe 1849

4.40

298k+ ratings

🖤 Gothic Horror 🧠 Psychological Horror 🌑 Dark Romanticism 👥 DoppelgäNger 🤥 Unreliable Narrator

5150, rue des Ormes

by Patrick Senécal • 1994

A student crashes his bike and finds a family that collects the guilty as trophies.

4.08

7k+

🧠 Psychological Horror 🚪 Locked-Room Horror 🔗 Stockholm Syndrome ⚖️ Vigilante Horror 🪓 Killer Family

5150, rue des Ormes 87%

A student crashes his bike and finds a family that collects the guilty as trophies.

by Patrick Senécal 1994

4.08

7k+ ratings

🧠 Psychological Horror 🚪 Locked-Room Horror 🔗 Stockholm Syndrome ⚖️ Vigilante Horror 🪓 Killer Family

Dead in the Water

by John Marrs • 2026

After nearly drowning, a man is haunted by a dead boy. The returning memories are his own crimes.

3.86

37k+

🌀 Unreliable Narrator 🧠 Repressed Memories 🔪 Serial Killer Mind 🌊 Coastal Noir 🩸 Intergenerational Trauma

Dead in the Water 87%

After nearly drowning, a man is haunted by a dead boy. The returning memories are his own crimes.

by John Marrs 2026

3.86

37k+ ratings

🌀 Unreliable Narrator 🧠 Repressed Memories 🔪 Serial Killer Mind 🌊 Coastal Noir 🩸 Intergenerational Trauma

La historia del loco

by John Katzenbach • 2004

A schizophrenic man returns to an asylum to solve a nurse's murder and his own splintered memories.

4.01

15k+

🩸 Psychological Thriller 🏥 Mental Asylum 🔪 Serial Killer ❓ Unreliable Narrator 🕵️ Amateur Sleuths

La historia del loco 87%

A schizophrenic man returns to an asylum to solve a nurse's murder and his own splintered memories.

by John Katzenbach 2004

4.01

15k+ ratings

🩸 Psychological Thriller 🏥 Mental Asylum 🔪 Serial Killer ❓ Unreliable Narrator 🕵️ Amateur Sleuths

Insomnia

by Sarah Pinborough • 2022

A lawyer nears forty sleepless, terrified she'll inherit the madness that destroyed her mother.

3.69

36k+

🏠 Domestic Thriller 🧠 Psychological Suspense 🔄 Generational Trauma 👯 Estranged Sisters 👩 Motherhood And Madness

Insomnia 87%

A lawyer nears forty sleepless, terrified she'll inherit the madness that destroyed her mother.

by Sarah Pinborough 2022

3.69

36k+ ratings

🏠 Domestic Thriller 🧠 Psychological Suspense 🔄 Generational Trauma 👯 Estranged Sisters 👩 Motherhood And Madness

The Fall of the House of Usher

by Edgar Allan Poe • 1839

Summoned to a decaying mansion, a visitor finds friend and house bound together in shared madness.

3.84

90k+

🧠 Psychological Horror 🏚️ Decaying Mansion 🏰 Isolated Setting 💀 Ancestral Curse 🏠 Sentient House

The Fall of the House of Usher 87%

Summoned to a decaying mansion, a visitor finds friend and house bound together in shared madness.

by Edgar Allan Poe 1839

3.84

90k+ ratings

🧠 Psychological Horror 🏚️ Decaying Mansion 🏰 Isolated Setting 💀 Ancestral Curse 🏠 Sentient House

The Art Thief

by Michael Finkel • 2023

History's most prolific art thief never stole for money. He stole to possess beauty itself.

3.92

103k+

🖼️ Art Theft 🎨 Aesthetic Obsession 🧠 Collector Psychology 🕵️ Amateur Criminals 💔 Love And Crime

The Art Thief 87%

History's most prolific art thief never stole for money. He stole to possess beauty itself.

by Michael Finkel 2023

3.92

103k+ ratings

🖼️ Art Theft 🎨 Aesthetic Obsession 🧠 Collector Psychology 🕵️ Amateur Criminals 💔 Love And Crime

Dearest

by Jacquie Walters • 2024

Alone with her newborn, her sleep paralysis has returned. Something in the nursery is answering.

3.50

15k+

🖤 Postpartum Horror 🔗 Generational Curse 👶 Haunted Motherhood 👁️ Unreliable Narrator 🏚️ Gothic Domestic

Dearest 86%

Alone with her newborn, her sleep paralysis has returned. Something in the nursery is answering.

by Jacquie Walters 2024

3.50

15k+ ratings

🖤 Postpartum Horror 🔗 Generational Curse 👶 Haunted Motherhood 👁️ Unreliable Narrator 🏚️ Gothic Domestic

Nostalgia

by Mircea Cărtărescu • 1989

A gambler defies death, a lover unravels, and a child's dream reveals hidden worlds in Bucharest.

4.20

5k+

🪆 Nested Narratives 🎯 Deadly Games 💔 Obsessive Love 🌀 Descent Into Madness 🌙 Dream Journeys

Nostalgia 86%

A gambler defies death, a lover unravels, and a child's dream reveals hidden worlds in Bucharest.

by Mircea Cărtărescu 1989

4.20

5k+ ratings

🪆 Nested Narratives 🎯 Deadly Games 💔 Obsessive Love 🌀 Descent Into Madness 🌙 Dream Journeys

Mad, Bad, and Sad

by Lisa Appignanesi • 2007

Madness is a cultural script, rewritten each century, and women have always been given the lead.

3.70

957

🌀 Women And Madness 🏛️ History Of Psychiatry 📜 Feminist History 🏚️ Madhouses And Asylums 🎭 Hysteria Studies

Mad, Bad, and Sad 86%

Madness is a cultural script, rewritten each century, and women have always been given the lead.

by Lisa Appignanesi 2007

3.70

957 ratings

🌀 Women And Madness 🏛️ History Of Psychiatry 📜 Feminist History 🏚️ Madhouses And Asylums 🎭 Hysteria Studies

The Blind Owl

by Sadegh Hedayat • 1937

Between opium dreams and waking torment, a painter obsesses over a vision that unmakes his reality.

3.95

35k+

🔪 Psychological Horror 📜 Modernist Classic 🫣 Unreliable Narrator 🌀 Descent Into Madness 🎨 Obsessed Artist

The Blind Owl 86%

Between opium dreams and waking torment, a painter obsesses over a vision that unmakes his reality.

by Sadegh Hedayat 1937

3.95

35k+ ratings

🔪 Psychological Horror 📜 Modernist Classic 🫣 Unreliable Narrator 🌀 Descent Into Madness 🎨 Obsessed Artist

Confessions

by Kanae Minato • 2008

A middle school teacher uses her final homeroom to announce she poisoned her daughter's two killers.

3.93

87k+

🧠 Psychological Thriller 🔪 Revenge Thriller 🏮 Japanese Noir 🎭 Unreliable Narrator 😈 Sociopathic Child

Confessions 86%

A middle school teacher uses her final homeroom to announce she poisoned her daughter's two killers.

by Kanae Minato 2008

3.93

87k+ ratings

🧠 Psychological Thriller 🔪 Revenge Thriller 🏮 Japanese Noir 🎭 Unreliable Narrator 😈 Sociopathic Child

Bad Things Happened in This Room

by Marie Still • 2025

She's trapped in a house where a room whispers of a crime she can't recall.

3.33

750

🧠 Psychological Horror 🏡 Domestic Gothic 🤯 Unreliable Narrator 💡 Gaslighting 👧 Missing Child

Bad Things Happened in This Room Summary

Bad Things Happened in This Room 86%

She's trapped in a house where a room whispers of a crime she can't recall.

by Marie Still 2025

3.33

750 ratings

🧠 Psychological Horror 🏡 Domestic Gothic 🤯 Unreliable Narrator 💡 Gaslighting 👧 Missing Child

Boy in the Box

by Marc E. Fitch • 2020

Four friends buried a boy in the Adirondacks. A decade later, the wilderness demands they return.

3.65

179

🏚️ Folk Horror 💀 Guilt And Atonement 🔪 Cover-Up Goes Wrong 👨‍👦 Sins Of The Father 🌲 Remote Wilderness

Boy in the Box 86%

Four friends buried a boy in the Adirondacks. A decade later, the wilderness demands they return.

by Marc E. Fitch 2020

3.65

179 ratings

🏚️ Folk Horror 💀 Guilt And Atonement 🔪 Cover-Up Goes Wrong 👨‍👦 Sins Of The Father 🌲 Remote Wilderness

Sometimes I Lie

by Alice Feeney • 2017

She lies in a coma, fully aware, as her husband and sister discuss what they did.

3.74

352k+

🏠 Domestic Thriller 🌀 Unreliable Narrator 💔 Childhood Trauma 👁️ Paranoid Atmosphere 👯 Sibling Rivalry

Sometimes I Lie 86%

She lies in a coma, fully aware, as her husband and sister discuss what they did.

by Alice Feeney 2017

3.74

352k+ ratings

🏠 Domestic Thriller 🌀 Unreliable Narrator 💔 Childhood Trauma 👁️ Paranoid Atmosphere 👯 Sibling Rivalry

The Life of a Stupid Man

by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa • 1927

A writer catalogs his life in fragments: madness, art, and a cosmos that laughs.

3.67

11k+

📖 Autobiographical Fiction 🧩 Fragmented Narrative 🎭 Unreliable Narrator 🧬 Family Madness 🌌 Cosmic Irony

The Life of a Stupid Man 86%

A writer catalogs his life in fragments: madness, art, and a cosmos that laughs.

by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa 1927

3.67

11k+ ratings

📖 Autobiographical Fiction 🧩 Fragmented Narrative 🎭 Unreliable Narrator 🧬 Family Madness 🌌 Cosmic Irony

Phantom Limb

by Lucinda Berry • 2016

After her fragile twin's suicide, she wakes in a psychiatric ward with scars she didn't make.

3.89

68k+

🔪 Psychological Thriller 👯 Twin Bond 🌀 Unreliable Narrator 🪞 Dissociative Identity 🏥 Psychiatric Hospital

Phantom Limb 86%

After her fragile twin's suicide, she wakes in a psychiatric ward with scars she didn't make.

by Lucinda Berry 2016

3.89

68k+ ratings

🔪 Psychological Thriller 👯 Twin Bond 🌀 Unreliable Narrator 🪞 Dissociative Identity 🏥 Psychiatric Hospital

The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman • 1892

A husband orders rest. The nursery's yellow wallpaper hides a crawling woman.

4.07

369k+

🧠 Unreliable Narrator 🏚️ Domestic Gothic 🖤 Psychological Horror 🔒 Forced Isolation 🕯️ Gaslighting

The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories Summary

The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories 86%

A husband orders rest. The nursery's yellow wallpaper hides a crawling woman.

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman 1892

4.07

369k+ ratings

🧠 Unreliable Narrator 🏚️ Domestic Gothic 🖤 Psychological Horror 🔒 Forced Isolation 🕯️ Gaslighting

The Third Policeman

by Flann O'Brien • 1967

Murder for money strands a man in a land policed by bicycles, the dead serving tea.

3.96

23k+

🌀 Absurdist Fiction ☘️ Irish Modernism 🎭 Unreliable Narrator 👤 Nameless Protagonist 🩸 Murder Guilt

The Third Policeman 86%

Murder for money strands a man in a land policed by bicycles, the dead serving tea.

by Flann O'Brien 1967

3.96

23k+ ratings

🌀 Absurdist Fiction ☘️ Irish Modernism 🎭 Unreliable Narrator 👤 Nameless Protagonist 🩸 Murder Guilt

The Cuck

by Aron Beauregard • 2022

Answering a risqué ad, two friends meet a voyeuristic old man whose gaze becomes a curse.

3.38

2k+

🩸 Extreme Horror 🦴 Body Horror 🦠 Parasitic Entity 🧛 Sexual Curse 🏚️ Decrepit House

The Cuck 86%

Answering a risqué ad, two friends meet a voyeuristic old man whose gaze becomes a curse.

by Aron Beauregard 2022

3.38

2k+ ratings

🩸 Extreme Horror 🦴 Body Horror 🦠 Parasitic Entity 🧛 Sexual Curse 🏚️ Decrepit House

While the City Slept

by Eli Sanders • 2016

A home invasion leaves one woman dead and the other offering an unexpected vow in court.

3.98

4k+

🔍 True Crime Journalism ⚖️ Mental Illness In Court 🏠 Home Invasion 💜 Sexual Assault Survivor 🧠 Mental Health Crisis

While the City Slept 86%

A home invasion leaves one woman dead and the other offering an unexpected vow in court.

by Eli Sanders 2016

3.98

4k+ ratings

🔍 True Crime Journalism ⚖️ Mental Illness In Court 🏠 Home Invasion 💜 Sexual Assault Survivor 🧠 Mental Health Crisis

Tell Me Your Dreams

by Sidney Sheldon • 1998

Haunted by a stalker, a woman finds herself accused of murders she cannot remember committing.

3.99

56k+

🧠 Dissociative Identity 👥 Hidden Alters ⚖️ Courtroom Drama 📰 Media Circus Trial 💔 Parental Abuse

Tell Me Your Dreams 86%

Haunted by a stalker, a woman finds herself accused of murders she cannot remember committing.

by Sidney Sheldon 1998

3.99

56k+ ratings

🧠 Dissociative Identity 👥 Hidden Alters ⚖️ Courtroom Drama 📰 Media Circus Trial 💔 Parental Abuse

Hamlet

by William Shakespeare • 1601

His dead father's ghost names the killer; a prince must act before the throne destroys him.

4.03

1.1M+

🗡️ Revenge Tragedy 🎭 Shakespearean Tragedy 😵 Feigned Madness 🪞 Play Within A Play 👻 Vengeful Ghost

Hamlet 86%

His dead father's ghost names the killer; a prince must act before the throne destroys him.

by William Shakespeare 1601

4.03

1.1M+ ratings

🗡️ Revenge Tragedy 🎭 Shakespearean Tragedy 😵 Feigned Madness 🪞 Play Within A Play 👻 Vengeful Ghost

I'm Thinking of Ending Things

by Iain Reid • 2016

A woman's doubts explode into horror when a visit to her boyfriend's family farm turns surreal.

3.50

206k+

🖤 Psychological Horror 🤥 Unreliable Narrator 📖 Metafiction 🌀 Surreal Horror 🏚️ Isolation Horror

I'm Thinking of Ending Things 86%

A woman's doubts explode into horror when a visit to her boyfriend's family farm turns surreal.

by Iain Reid 2016

3.50

206k+ ratings

🖤 Psychological Horror 🤥 Unreliable Narrator 📖 Metafiction 🌀 Surreal Horror 🏚️ Isolation Horror

Poesía completa

by Alejandra Pizarnik • 2000

Poetry cannot close the wound it names. The truest self only breathes after dark.

4.55

11k+

📝 Confessional Poetry 🌎 Latin American Poetry 🌀 Surrealism 🤐 Limits Of Language 🕳️ Existential Solitude

Poesía completa 86%

Poetry cannot close the wound it names. The truest self only breathes after dark.

by Alejandra Pizarnik 2000

4.55

11k+ ratings

📝 Confessional Poetry 🌎 Latin American Poetry 🌀 Surrealism 🤐 Limits Of Language 🕳️ Existential Solitude

The Meaning of Madness

by Neel Burton • 2008

Mental disorders have hidden purposes: windows into meaning, creativity, and transformation.

3.97

275

💊 Critical Psychiatry 🌌 Existential Psychology 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology 🌱 Suffering And Meaning 🎨 Creativity And Madness

The Meaning of Madness 86%

Mental disorders have hidden purposes: windows into meaning, creativity, and transformation.

by Neel Burton 2008

3.97

275 ratings

💊 Critical Psychiatry 🌌 Existential Psychology 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology 🌱 Suffering And Meaning 🎨 Creativity And Madness

Creep

by Emma van Straaten • 2025

His cleaner knows every secret of his life. He does not know her name.

3.47

6k+

🖤 Psychological Horror 📖 Literary Thriller 🌀 Unreliable Narrator 💔 Erotic Obsession 😬 Darkly Comic

Creep 86%

His cleaner knows every secret of his life. He does not know her name.

by Emma van Straaten 2025

3.47

6k+ ratings

🖤 Psychological Horror 📖 Literary Thriller 🌀 Unreliable Narrator 💔 Erotic Obsession 😬 Darkly Comic

Bitter Blood

by Jerry Bledsoe • 1988

A custody war. A fake doctor. A mother who saved her last bullets for her own children.

4.04

10k+

🏠 Family Annihilation ⚖️ Custody Battles 🧠 Folie à Deux 🏚️ Southern Gothic 🏕️ Survivalist Paranoia

Bitter Blood 86%

A custody war. A fake doctor. A mother who saved her last bullets for her own children.

by Jerry Bledsoe 1988

4.04

10k+ ratings

🏠 Family Annihilation ⚖️ Custody Battles 🧠 Folie à Deux 🏚️ Southern Gothic 🏕️ Survivalist Paranoia

Die, My Love

by Ariana Harwicz • 2012

Deep in the French countryside, a mother's devotion frays into something feral and dangerous.

3.42

14k+

🐺 Maternal Ambivalence 🌀 Unreliable Narrator 💔 Mental Unraveling 🦊 Feral Motherhood 🌊 Stream Of Consciousness

Die, My Love 86%

Deep in the French countryside, a mother's devotion frays into something feral and dangerous.

by Ariana Harwicz 2012

3.42

14k+ ratings

🐺 Maternal Ambivalence 🌀 Unreliable Narrator 💔 Mental Unraveling 🦊 Feral Motherhood 🌊 Stream Of Consciousness

An Unquiet Mind

by Kay Redfield Jamison • 1995

A clinical psychologist loses her key to the locked ward. She is no longer the doctor.

4.06

87k+

🎭 Bipolar Disorder 📖 Psychiatric Memoir 🩺 Patient As Expert 🎨 Creativity And Madness 💊 Medication Ambivalence

An Unquiet Mind 86%

A clinical psychologist loses her key to the locked ward. She is no longer the doctor.

by Kay Redfield Jamison 1995

4.06

87k+ ratings

🎭 Bipolar Disorder 📖 Psychiatric Memoir 🩺 Patient As Expert 🎨 Creativity And Madness 💊 Medication Ambivalence

The Fall

by Albert Camus • 1956

In an Amsterdam bar, a disgraced Parisian lawyer confesses the story of his moral collapse.

4.03

138k+

📚 Existentialist Novel 🎙️ Confessional Monologue ✝️ Guilt And Confession 🎭 Unreliable Narrator 😏 Cynical Irony

The Fall 86%

In an Amsterdam bar, a disgraced Parisian lawyer confesses the story of his moral collapse.

by Albert Camus 1956

4.03

138k+ ratings

📚 Existentialist Novel 🎙️ Confessional Monologue ✝️ Guilt And Confession 🎭 Unreliable Narrator 😏 Cynical Irony

Confessions Of A Cannibal

by Robert Keller • 2015

A detective planted a lie in the newspaper. The cannibal mailed back his recipe.

3.99

374

🔪 Serial Killers 🍖 Cannibalism 📰 Classic True Crime 🧠 Criminal Psychology ⚖️ Insanity Defense

Confessions Of A Cannibal 86%

A detective planted a lie in the newspaper. The cannibal mailed back his recipe.

by Robert Keller 2015

3.99

374 ratings

🔪 Serial Killers 🍖 Cannibalism 📰 Classic True Crime 🧠 Criminal Psychology ⚖️ Insanity Defense

The Idiot

by Fyodor Dostoevsky • 1869

A guileless prince returns from a Swiss sanatorium into a Russia of love, obsession, and ruin.

4.21

221k+

🧠 Philosophical Fiction 🕊️ Holy Fool 💔 Doomed Love 🔥 Obsessive Passion 🫀 Psychological Depth

The Idiot 86%

A guileless prince returns from a Swiss sanatorium into a Russia of love, obsession, and ruin.

by Fyodor Dostoevsky 1869

4.21

221k+ ratings

🧠 Philosophical Fiction 🕊️ Holy Fool 💔 Doomed Love 🔥 Obsessive Passion 🫀 Psychological Depth

Every Fall

by Angela Douglas • 2025

Fleeing criminals, a mother hides in a house haunted by a ghost who understands her terror.

3.73

538

🏚️ Domestic Suspense 🧠 Psychological Horror 🤱 Postpartum Depression 👻 Haunted House 🎖️ PTSD

Every Fall 86%

Fleeing criminals, a mother hides in a house haunted by a ghost who understands her terror.

by Angela Douglas 2025

3.73

538 ratings

🏚️ Domestic Suspense 🧠 Psychological Horror 🤱 Postpartum Depression 👻 Haunted House 🎖️ PTSD

The Grownup

by Gillian Flynn • 2014

A fake psychic cleanses a Gothic mansion. The ghosts are fake; the danger is real.

3.55

155k+

🏠 Domestic Noir 🧠 Psychological Horror 🗣️ Unreliable Narrator 🃏 Con Within A Con 👦 Manipulative Child

The Grownup 86%

A fake psychic cleanses a Gothic mansion. The ghosts are fake; the danger is real.

by Gillian Flynn 2014

3.55

155k+ ratings

🏠 Domestic Noir 🧠 Psychological Horror 🗣️ Unreliable Narrator 🃏 Con Within A Con 👦 Manipulative Child

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