From Julia & 705 to The Walk: Building a Universe of Psychological Horror

When I first released 705, I wanted to trap readers in a single room where reality bent against them. Now, with The Walk, the walls have fallen away—but the paranoia is worse. Both novels explore the same core obsession: what happens when you can no longer trust your mind, your family, or even the shape of the world around you?

Why Psychological Horror Hits Harder Than Gore

In the best psychological thrillers and horror novels, the terror isn’t about monsters—it’s about the ordinary turning subtly wrong. A mirror reflection that smiles when you don’t. A digital clock that freezes at the same time every night. A loved one who speaks in a voice that doesn’t feel like theirs.

That’s the kind of horror I write at MindTwist Books—stories where silence has weight, where paranoia spreads like cracks in glass, and where the reader starts to doubt their own senses.

705: Death in a Motel Room That Won’t Let You Leave

705 begins in a roadside motel, where guests wake to find their own dead bodies in the bathroom. But the horror isn’t just the body—it’s the way time loops, the exits vanish, and reality itself becomes a prison.

Readers called it “tense, dark and unpredictable” because the motel wasn’t haunted by ghosts, but by the truth: once you step inside, you can’t escape yourself.

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The Walk: When Reality Starts to Drown

Where 705 confined you to one room, The Walk forces you into endless corridors. Marcus Chen, an engineer, discovers something wrong in the city’s water supply—but the contamination spreads to more than the rivers.

Clocks freeze at 3:47. Faucets drip with static instead of water. His wife and daughter speak lines that feel rehearsed. And always, the phrase repeats: “WALK INITIATED.”

This is psychological horror turned inward, where the mind becomes the experiment.

A Shared Universe of Dread

Though 705 and The Walk are separate stories, they live in the same universe of themes:

• Repetition (3:47, the motel room numbers)

• Isolation (a locked room, an endless tunnel)

• Identity collapse (am I the observer, or the echo?)

They’re novels for readers who enjoy psychological suspense books like The Shining or Gone Girl, but want something darker—something that doesn’t explain everything away.

Why I Write This Way

Because the scariest horror isn’t loud. It’s quiet. It’s when your spouse says a word they never use. When a clock shows the wrong time. When the walls of your home don’t feel like they’re yours anymore.

That’s what The Walk is about. That’s what all my stories are about.

Ready to Step Inside?

The FREE prologue of The Walk is releasing next week right here on the site. Subscribers to the MindTwist Readers Circle will get it even earlier.

💀 If you thought 705 was unsettling, wait until you step into this tunnel.

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