Results for "Psycho" in Literature & Fiction

Patrick Bateman is 26 and works on Wall Street. He is handsome, sophisticated, charming, and intelligent. He is also a psychopath. And he is taking us to a head-on collision with America's greatest dream - and its worst nightmare...

Avec son sourire carnassier et ses costumes chics, Patrick Bateman est l'incarnation du golden boy new-yorkais. Mais, à la nuit tombante, il laisse libre cours à sa démence. En bon serial killer, Patrick viole, torture et tue. Dans un monde lisse de tout sentiment, jusqu'où l'horreur peut-elle aller ?

The plan was to collect everything I could on the Bonetti Brothers and take them down. As an Assistant District Attorney, I want to keep the community safe from this mafia family. More than that, I was attempting to make a name for myself. Little did I know the way things would fall apart. I didn’t see him coming. The man with the nickname that matches him to a ’T’.

SOON TO BE A FEATURE FILM STARRING MARGARET QUALLEY AND THOMASIN MCKENZIE Named one of the Most Anticipated Books of 2025 by Oprah Daily, Reader's Digest, Polygon, and Paste “Simmering with rage, propulsive and laugh out loud funny, Victorian Psycho speaks profoundly of horror both within and...

When the Bates Motel looms up out of the storm, Mary Crane thinks it is her salvation. The rooms are musty but clean. The manager, Norman Bates, seems like a nice enough fellow, if a little strange. Then Mary decides to take a shower, and the nightmare begins....

It was a dark and stormy night when Mary Crane glimpsed the unlit neon sign announcing the vacancy at the Bates Motel. Exhausted, lost, and at the end of her rope, she was eager for a hot shower and a bed for the night. Her room was musty, but clean, and the manager seemed nice, if a little odd.

August Mulvaney has always been exceptional. As the genius son of an eccentric billionaire, his off-putting behavior is often blamed on his high IQ. They say there’s a thin line between genius and madness. August is both - a brilliant professor loved by his students and a ruthless, obsessive killer tasked with righting the wrongs of a failing justice system. And he’s just found his latest obsession: Lucas Blackwell.

Il romanzo gotico che ha conquistato la critica e ispirato l’omonimo film. Inverno 1858. A Ensor House, elegante dimora nella campagna inglese, la nuova istitutrice Winifred Notty nasconde un segreto inquietante. Dietro le buone maniere con cui educa i bambini di casa Pounds, Miss Notty...

They want to break her. But you can't break what's already broken. Just wait until they uncover her secrets. She'll have them on their knees. In this epic installment, Aran will compete with Sadie and her mates. May the best woman win.

El señor y la señora Pounds han contratado a Winifred Notty para que cumpla el rol de la perfecta institutriz victoriana: dará clases a sus pupilos (francés y costura a Drusilla y álgebra e historia al pequeño Andrew) y les contará cuentos antes de dormir. Pero Ensor House y sus habitantes ocultan más perversiones y secretos que la perturbada señorita Notty, capaz de convertir un té con elegantes invitados y bebés en el salón en un acontecimiento macabro.

Malum, Scorpius, and Orion are now fighting for me. Their power is mind-boggling. The carnage staggering. The High Court wants me to control them, but you can't leash monsters. Even with Sadie, Jinx, and John by my side, I'm struggling to survive. The war drums are beating and life altering secrets are being revealed.

Aaron Jones has survived by hiding behind walls of control and calculated indifference. He’s had to. As the son of two infamous serial killers, people either fear him, pity him, or crave to peel him open just to see what’s underneath. The last thing he needs is anyone digging into his past. Especially not a man who makes him want to surrender every defence.

As a child Timothy Wing endured the physical, emotional, and mental abuse of his father until his father's mysterious death when Timothy was 18. He witnessed the murder of his beloved mother by that maniac father of his when he was a child, yet there was no reason for law enforcement to suspect any foul play when Timothy's father died. It was an accident, after all. As the years went by, Timothy longed for a normal life and someone who would love him and take away the pain of the past.

Two young girls with a gift for telepathy are abducted off the streets of Atlanta by vicious human traffickers, and their only help may be Spencer Pelletier, a psychopath recently escaped from prison, in this latest gripping horror-thriller from Chad Huskins.

Kaitlyn Boyd’s new pastime is pulling her hair out in fistfuls. Her home is WanderHome, the treatment center she once dreamed of working at. The place that now confiscates her shoelaces and won't trust her with her own toothbrush. Her therapist wants her to say that she’s the victim of what happened that night. But Kaitlyn knows exactly who’s responsible. She’s at fault. She’s the devil. That’s when Seth Coleman breaks past her doorway, reeling her back, tempting her with the one thing she needs to make everything okay…the location of her missing sister. The sister she shattered.

The new Bates Motel is a tourist attraction, a re-creation of the infamous murder site, and the developers are already counting their profits. But there’s a new exhibit that nobody expected: the bloody corpse of a teenage girl crumpled in the front hall, stabbed to death. Among the avalanche of press and publicity is reporter and true-crime book writer Amelia Haines, who is studying the original Psycho killings.

You remember Norman Bates, the shy motel manager with the fatal mother fixation. Now, years after his horrific bout of butchery, Norman is at large again. Breaking free from the psycho ward, he cuts a shocking swath of blood all the way to Hollywood - where, it so happens, they are making a movie about Norman’s life and crimes. A movie that suddenly and terrifyingly becomes a lot like real life.

Forgive me father for I have sinned… I've done dirty things with the devils. I want them to chain me up in my cell. I get off on watching the three of them together. I kept my sinful nature hidden from the world until the night three masked men had me thrown inside the asylum. When the cell...

Wem kannst du vertrauen, wenn du an deinem eigenen Verstand zu zweifeln beginnst? Der Hacker T-Rex wacht in einer Hamburger Einrichtung für psychische Erkrankungen auf und hört Stimmen in seinem Kopf. Während Nolo und Kim sich auf die Suche nach ihrem verschwundenen Freund machen, muss dieser sich mit den Abgründen seiner Seele auseinandersetzen. Was ist mit ihm geschehen? Ist er wirklich gewalttätig geworden? Und wenn selbst der eigene Verstand nicht mehr vertrauenswürdig ist... Was ist dann die Wahrheit?

Ich bin eine Prinzessin, die sich in einer Akademie für Übernatürliche als Junge versteckt. Aber das ist keine normale Schule, wir werden zu Attentätern ausgebildet. Ich muss einfach nur überleben. Doch ich habe nicht mit den über zwei Meter großen Kriegern gerechnet, die sich selbst Könige nennen. Mit ihren seltsamen Tätowierungen, ihrem umwerfenden Aussehen und ihrer Kraft sind sie anders als alle Männer, die ich bisher kennengelernt habe. Sie halten mich für einen hübschen Jungen. Sie denken, ich wäre verwöhnt. Sie glauben, ich sei nicht stark genug. Ich werde ihnen das Gegenteil beweisen.