Web novels tagged Psychological, sorted by what's popular on NovelCult.
Askel is a young Norwegian who has spent his life trying to prove that the monsters he saw as a child were real. As an adult, he discovers that he is part of a group of people called the Blessed. The Blessed are people who care for the Aether, the energy of reality, and fight the Sinners who want to destroy humanity.
Noah · Mystery · 12 ch
Mages from across the plane dream of acceptance to the distant Oruss Academy for an erudite education in the arcane, but one young applicant, the eccentric memoirist "Lasset Milly", looks to make a mockery of the ancient institute, unless it bends to his whims and fits in his box.
Failnot · Fantasy · 1 ch
Cheryl Sakurai is a young woman with a fondness for portal fantasies. Her two friends are harmless theorists who think a cartoon character named "Jax" from a show called The Amazing Digital Circus is a trans woman they nickname Daisy. One day, Cheryl wakes up in another universe. Here, her friends think a flesh-and-blood popstar named Daisy Butler is a closeted lesbian. Oh, and they want to murder her boyfriend. … Also on Wattpad, Tumblr, and Tapas!
SnarkyLisa · Drama · 21 ch
Five hundred years after "The Shattering" left a scar on the world forever, humanity lives in a fragile " peace " upheld by the cold, iron grip of the Rogue Capture Team (R.C.T.). Terra Umbral doesn’t care about peace. He doesn’t even care much about his own name. As a "Dragon-Killer" with a kill count close to a thousand, Terra is a chaotic force of crimson Ether and lost memories. When a routine heist for a mysterious relic goes wrong in Washington D.C., Terra becomes the target of a full-scale manhunt led by the R.C.T.’s most elite and most unhinged operatives. Forced to take along Dash, a naive sporeborn youth whose life he has already ruined.
dumbhd · Action · 13 ch
In a technologically advanced future where elite academies compete for prestige, eleven exceptional students receive a mysterious invitation to participate in The Chrysalis Initiative, a secretive tournament reputed to challenge the world’s most brilliant minds. Within an advanced simulation, the participants are assigned concealed roles as Hunters or Survivors. With no certainty of who stands on which side—and with roles capable of shifting between rounds—alliances begin to form even as doubt quietly takes root. As the tournament progresses, every interaction becomes a test of perception and every decision a calculated risk. Trust begins to erode, and the students find themselves questioning not only those around them, but their own judgment, instincts, and sense of self. In a system built upon deception and survival, the question is no longer who will win, but how far someone can be pushed before losing the very humanity they are trying to protect.
Ryxel · Sci Fi · 9 ch
After surviving the greatest school massacre of the century, a young man awakens with no memory of who he is. No past. No memories. No identity. He tries to move forward, leaving behind the scars he cannot even remember. However, the more he distances himself, the more fate insists on pulling him back. Encounters with people who seem to know him reveal fragments of a story he never knew was buried… or perhaps one he wanted to forget. Between what was lost and what still lingers in the shadows, submerged beneath the underground of his own truth, a question haunts him like a constant whisper… What did I leave behind?
NovelsEmFragmentos · Urban Fantasy · 1 ch
An unfeeling young man bored of his stable yet monotone life has his entire reality changed after a strange power is given to him by a place that doesn't exist. He now must decide what to do with it and if he should carry out his plans for the world while also maintaining his dying relationship with the people around him.
The4th · Psychological · 3 ch
The city of Letcham was lorded over by a vampiric ruling class from Castle Sangmont. However, twenty years ago they had been massacred, and in their stead the church took hold of the city. Their religion was less about gods and more a worship of human kind's advancement and, when the plague swept the city, bloodshed. This plague was not a normal sickness, it turned folks ravenous. They acted more like beasts than men when infected, so they were called as much. One day a young woman named Mayme was sent to get supplies from the city in her ailing father's stead. The only issue was that she was the daughter of a leech of Sangmont. A monster the church would not take too kindly too-- nor would the man in Letcham who made it his life's mission to slay the rest of her wretched kind. The very man she was forced to rely upon when she got trapped outside with the beasts by the city's nightly lockdown. [Content Warning: Violence & Gore, Physical Abuse, Sexual Assault, Medical Torture]
Lavinia Lambb · Horror · 1 ch
"Yes, of course I'm scared. I don't know what to expect from tomorrow." Lance Klint is eighteen, a caring delivery guy, and a brother searching for a sister who disappeared without a trace. During a failed delivery, he will find himself torn between his old world and the new reality built by horrors beyond comprehension, a forgotten pantheon, and the very madness that consumed the archipelago he once called his home. Lance will understand that nothing is quite what it really is and that his family tragedy was something far greater than what he thought it had been. ------------------------------ Schedule: Currently striving to translate my OWN work (non native eng. speaker). Since the chapters are pretty heavy and deserve thorough translation, this novel will strive to offer its readers at least two chapters per week. Disclaimer: This Novel has a romance subplot (No harem) - Mature themes and graphic depictions - No system or cultivation - Longer chapters than usual.
Ludwika · Urban Fantasy · 132 ch
Foolan was hired to make a room full of strangers laugh. He should have asked why they were mourning someone who hadn’t died. A concealed painting, an empty chair, and one careless joke leave him trapped inside an artwork with a missing man beneath the table. In this world, original paintings can be entered. Those who survive and comprehend their meaning return with power. The first successful comprehender claims its strongest form. Everyone afterward receives a weaker echo. Some return changed in ways nobody knows how to repair. Foolan wants to get out, collect his fee, and discover who decided his life was worth twelve marks. His search leads through disputed collections, dangerous expeditions, and a trade in weapons extracted from artworks. The Feathers have a place in that trade. They also have reasons to keep certain disappearances unexplained. One of their recruiters offers Foolan help. He sees through the jokes with an accuracy Foolan finds difficult to refuse. For once, someone understands him. Foolan has yet to learn what that will cost.
Iakalam · Action · 2 ch
Synopsis FBI Agent. Closet Sociopath. Giant. All of these words describe SAC Imai. A man - no, a thing, unleashed onto the word to exact his hate filled vengeance on the proxies of his suffering. Ready to use any means - legal or otherwise - to bring the criminal element to 'justice'. And not the hollow victory of imprisonment. He would bring the only true measure of punishment to greatest amount of people possible. Death - painful if possible. Not just in its physicality but in the sheer destructiveness wrought onto society expertly hidden from prying eyes. Combat. Manipulation. Murder. All key disciplines of warfare. A war fought by a one-man army in the shadows of US law enforcement. /// Introduction - Justice is truly blind, O.I. Hate. It is powerful - it endures the longest amid the dying stars of human emotion. Hate. Utter contempt for one's own race. How far would someone go. How terrible their resolve. How deep the machinations. To extract their revenge - satiate that cool fire - against the object of that burning hate. What heights would such a being reach - when they abhor the sky that hangs overhead and the earth beneath their feet. Their weakness shackles them. Their humanity binds them. Not a wildfire, no, it would be slow. Painful. Equal. An instrument of justice become odium incarnate. A grudge so deep it would consume the soul. A predator unleashed upon ‘polite’ society. How far would such a being go? To make them feel true fear.
Herald · Action · 30 ch
All living will suffer. All shall die. All things must end. In the land of fire and dust, In the land where time isn't defined, Where everything is unknown, yet known to many. **Yet every ending begins.**
alizabihi1387 · Fantasy · 3 ch
Tansetsuki Yuume just wanted to revive his older brother, sister-in-law and little niece. He didn't know that he would have to save one more person. And why this person had suddenly become so important to him? _________ Cover and other arts by Kann ("Aoihito", "The Middle of Nowhere") Updates: Sundays
adawinry · Urban Fantasy · 6 ch
Expect: - Found family - A morally complex lead - DIY bunker takedowns that turn into something way deeper - An ensemble cast of survivors The wrong people survived the end of the world. Madeleine is going to fix that. Sixteen-year-old Madeleine has already lost everything. Her family. Her future. Her faith in humanity. The only thing left: revenge. And a book that delivers exactly what its title promises: 101 Doomsday Bunkers & How to Raid Them. When the apocalypse hits, Madeleine learns fast that surviving it was the easy part. Surviving those who survived it is a whole different beast. She saves her classmates, seizes the first doomsday bunker by locking its legitimate owners out to die, and forges the Leftover Legion—a bunch of kids who realize they're all orphans now. But they've found a new family. And a purpose: turning bunkers into a war machine on skates, leveling up with every raid, getting ready for the boss fortress, where only Madeleine knows what awaits them. They must learn to fight as family, knowing that every raid could take one of them away. A Psychological Survival LitRPG (Found Family - Ice Wasteland - Base-Building) saga where the apocalypse is only level one, and a bunch of ragtag kids fight to reclaim a world stolen by the rich and powerful.
Yubens · Apocalypse · 30 ch
A seventeen-year-old misanthrope who sees humans as devils, is forced to confront the one thing he can't explain—kindness from a stranger, and must decide if the world is truly rotten, or if he's been blind to the light.
RefugiusAmarael · Mystery · 29 ch
In the city of Bellwether, things that almost happened never truly disappear. Unsent letters, forgotten possibilities, and lives that were never lived gather in a hidden world beneath the streets. Seventeen-year-old Nilo Venn has spent his life repairing broken objects, never realizing that some of them contain fragments of unrealized futures. Everything changes when a mysterious girl carrying a yellow umbrella arrives at his shop with a terrifying message: Nilo will die tomorrow. As impossible events begin rewriting the city's history, Nilo searches for his missing mother and discovers a secret buried inside his own past. But the deeper he ventures into the world beneath Bellwether, the more he questions whether the people he loves ever existed at all. Someone is collecting abandoned possibilities to create a world where nothing unexpected can happen again. And Nilo may be the only person capable of stopping them. To save tomorrow, he must first discover what happened to yesterday.
SAMARCHANDRAKAR · Fantasy · 7 ch
The Rushu village once existed peacefully, in the valley of the wailing phantoms. But one day, they were unannouncedly attacked. By a force unknown and immune to their poison arts. In the midst of this one-sided massacre, a singular boy survived and was saved by his lone ambition of exploration that had led him far from his village. And far too late back. Alone, and standing on the slope if the hill that bordered his village to the left. Only two things remained between the boy and air itself. Despair. And a deep longing for revenge!
Gyrr0Glyph1c · Adventure · 4 ch
After years of torment and regret: Kino, the unblessed priest, came back to a certain place after it changed his life.
Zenostromz · Horror · 1 ch