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Psychological Horror Stories: Horror and Supernatural Fiction V4
Psychological Horror Stories (Psychological Horror and Supernatural Fiction V4) is a collection of dark tales that deal with the horror inherent in the human psyche. Sometimes supernatural or macabre, but always darkly psychological in the effect on the reader, these twisted stories will linger in the imagination long after the last page has been turned.
This book is part of a 4-volume series (including an omnibus box-set edition) of psychological horror fiction. Read them all separately, or purchase the box-set in print or ebook format for a special discounted price. The stories in this series comprise the best and most disturbing of William Cook’s psychological horror fiction.
This volume contains the following
Death Comes Calling – The parents have gone out for the evening and return home to find the sitter and their son missing and a strange child in their house. A very strange child!
A Dream Realized – A young boy living in an orphanage retreats into his fantasy world to escape the cruel taunts of the other orphans and the sadistic brutality of the staff.
The Pale Stranger – A man turns his back on his family as his addictions suck him deeper into a debauched world until he meets a stranger who offers him a way out, but at a terrible price.
Devil Inside – This twisted tale winds itself around a disturbed young boy who discovers that when you make a wish, you better make sure you really want it. After all, monsters are sometimes real.
Conceived By Death – A drug-addicted couple who will do anything to score a fix find themselves hopelessly unprepared for the arrival of a baby with a hunger far greater than their own.
Thirsty Work – A young man escapes from his brutal father and finds work and lodging at a liquor store where the customers have an insatiable thirst for more than just alcohol.
Dolly Did It – When dreams become nightmares and the past refuses to die . . . A young girl’s old dolly, Samantha, haunts her dreams as her family begin to die one by one.
Contains R18+ material not suitable for minors. Includes depictions of graphic violence and scenes of horror.
This book is part of a 4-volume series (including an omnibus box-set edition) of psychological horror fiction. Read them all separately, or purchase the box-set in print or ebook format for a special discounted price. The stories in this series comprise the best and most disturbing of William Cook’s psychological horror fiction.
This volume contains the following
Death Comes Calling – The parents have gone out for the evening and return home to find the sitter and their son missing and a strange child in their house. A very strange child!
A Dream Realized – A young boy living in an orphanage retreats into his fantasy world to escape the cruel taunts of the other orphans and the sadistic brutality of the staff.
The Pale Stranger – A man turns his back on his family as his addictions suck him deeper into a debauched world until he meets a stranger who offers him a way out, but at a terrible price.
Devil Inside – This twisted tale winds itself around a disturbed young boy who discovers that when you make a wish, you better make sure you really want it. After all, monsters are sometimes real.
Conceived By Death – A drug-addicted couple who will do anything to score a fix find themselves hopelessly unprepared for the arrival of a baby with a hunger far greater than their own.
Thirsty Work – A young man escapes from his brutal father and finds work and lodging at a liquor store where the customers have an insatiable thirst for more than just alcohol.
Dolly Did It – When dreams become nightmares and the past refuses to die . . . A young girl’s old dolly, Samantha, haunts her dreams as her family begin to die one by one.
Contains R18+ material not suitable for minors. Includes depictions of graphic violence and scenes of horror.
- GenresHorror
93 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 25, 2021
About the author
William Cook
32 books95 followersWilliam Cook was born and raised in New Zealand and is the author of the popular Psychological Thriller, 'Blood Related.' He is also the author of two non-fiction books: 'Gaze Into The Abyss: The Poetry of Jim Morrison' and 'Secrets of Best-Selling Self-Published Authors.'
He has also written many short stories that have appeared in anthologies and has authored two short-story collections ('Dreams of Thanatos' & 'Death Quartet') and two collections of poetry ('Journey: the search for something' & 'Corpus Delicti'). William writes Psychological Thrillers mostly, but also dabbles in Horror Fiction and, more recently, Non-Fiction.
He is currently hard at work on a sequel to his Psychological Thriller, 'Blood Related,' a second volume of 'Secrets of Best-Selling Self-Published Authors' and an exciting new Pulp Thriller Series all due out in 2016. Stay tuned!
William loves to stay in touch with his readers and interact on social media. You can find him via the following links:
Email: williamcookauthor@gmail.com
Twitter: @williamcook666
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WilliamCookW...
Grab a free copy of William's 250 pg collection, 'Dreams of Thanatos.' Sign up now for the VIP newsletter at: http://williamcookwriter.com/p/subscr... (just copy and paste into your browser).
His work has been praised by Graham Masterton, Joe McKinney, Billie Sue Mosiman, Anna Taborska, Rocky Wood and many other notable writers and editors. William is also the editor of the anthology 'Fresh Fear: Contemporary Horror,' published by James Ward Kirk Fiction.
Member of the Australian Horror Writers Association, SpecFicNZ & the SFFANZ.
"This man is simply scary. There is both a clinical thoroughness and a heartfelt emotional thoroughness to his writing. He manages to shock as well as empathize, to scare as well as acclimatize, yet beneath it all is a well read intelligence that demands to be engaged. I loved Blood Related. Ordinarily I hate serial killer stories, but William Cook won me over. He is a unique and innovative talent."
- Joe McKinney, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Flesh Eaters and Dog Days
"William Cook tells a gruesome story with a sense of authenticity that makes you question with considerable unease if it really is fiction, after all."
- Graham Masterton, author of The Manitou and Descendant
He has also written many short stories that have appeared in anthologies and has authored two short-story collections ('Dreams of Thanatos' & 'Death Quartet') and two collections of poetry ('Journey: the search for something' & 'Corpus Delicti'). William writes Psychological Thrillers mostly, but also dabbles in Horror Fiction and, more recently, Non-Fiction.
He is currently hard at work on a sequel to his Psychological Thriller, 'Blood Related,' a second volume of 'Secrets of Best-Selling Self-Published Authors' and an exciting new Pulp Thriller Series all due out in 2016. Stay tuned!
William loves to stay in touch with his readers and interact on social media. You can find him via the following links:
Email: williamcookauthor@gmail.com
Twitter: @williamcook666
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WilliamCookW...
Grab a free copy of William's 250 pg collection, 'Dreams of Thanatos.' Sign up now for the VIP newsletter at: http://williamcookwriter.com/p/subscr... (just copy and paste into your browser).
His work has been praised by Graham Masterton, Joe McKinney, Billie Sue Mosiman, Anna Taborska, Rocky Wood and many other notable writers and editors. William is also the editor of the anthology 'Fresh Fear: Contemporary Horror,' published by James Ward Kirk Fiction.
Member of the Australian Horror Writers Association, SpecFicNZ & the SFFANZ.
"This man is simply scary. There is both a clinical thoroughness and a heartfelt emotional thoroughness to his writing. He manages to shock as well as empathize, to scare as well as acclimatize, yet beneath it all is a well read intelligence that demands to be engaged. I loved Blood Related. Ordinarily I hate serial killer stories, but William Cook won me over. He is a unique and innovative talent."
- Joe McKinney, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Flesh Eaters and Dog Days
"William Cook tells a gruesome story with a sense of authenticity that makes you question with considerable unease if it really is fiction, after all."
- Graham Masterton, author of The Manitou and Descendant
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April 10, 2022
This is a something of a cheat for I am posting the same review for both volumes 2 and 4 of this collection, but really they are so very similar, it seems like an ok thing to do. To be fair, the stories in this volume were slightly heavier on gore and also featured a notable amount of child abuse as a theme. And now the review itself...
I wonder how come I’m the first to rate and review this on GR. Granted I’ve not heard about the author until I came across these freebies on Amazon, but people apparently have heard of him. He’s got praise from some very respectable sources including the one that sold me on him by Graham Masterton.
So, I figure why not and downloaded two of Cook’s short collections, volumes 2 and 4. Both under 100 pages, so not much of a commitment either way.
And both turned out to be very entertaining reads. A nice balance of the dark psychological and outright viscerally brutal and gory. Oodles of fun for genre fans.
I don’t know if I’d say these were great reads or quite a match for all the aforementioned praise lavished over the first few pages of the volumes, but very entertaining is, indeed, perfectly good. In fact, the author offers another freebie through a subscription to his newsletter at the end of each volume and I already downloaded that one too for more of Cook’s nightmares. Worth checking out, especially if you score them as freebies.
I wonder how come I’m the first to rate and review this on GR. Granted I’ve not heard about the author until I came across these freebies on Amazon, but people apparently have heard of him. He’s got praise from some very respectable sources including the one that sold me on him by Graham Masterton.
So, I figure why not and downloaded two of Cook’s short collections, volumes 2 and 4. Both under 100 pages, so not much of a commitment either way.
And both turned out to be very entertaining reads. A nice balance of the dark psychological and outright viscerally brutal and gory. Oodles of fun for genre fans.
I don’t know if I’d say these were great reads or quite a match for all the aforementioned praise lavished over the first few pages of the volumes, but very entertaining is, indeed, perfectly good. In fact, the author offers another freebie through a subscription to his newsletter at the end of each volume and I already downloaded that one too for more of Cook’s nightmares. Worth checking out, especially if you score them as freebies.
June 20, 2025
Good style and substance.
As usual, William Cook's writing style is concise. Direct, but not simplistic. No unnecessary language. Nothing flowery.
Putting together stories that are neither redundant nor easily predicted. Good stuff that's not for the feint of heart!
As usual, William Cook's writing style is concise. Direct, but not simplistic. No unnecessary language. Nothing flowery.
Putting together stories that are neither redundant nor easily predicted. Good stuff that's not for the feint of heart!
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