Dark & Disturbing Books Set In Asylums🕯️📖🔒

There’s something uniquely unsettling about books set in asylums. The locked doors, unreliable memories and the feeling that nobody can fully be trusted - including the narrator. In today’s video, I’m diving into books that use psychiatric hospitals and institutions as settings for mystery, horror, and psychological suspense. A small content note before we start: these books include themes surrounding mental illness, institutional abuse, trauma and psychiatric treatment. A lot of them include outdated or harmful attitudes from the periods they were written in that made me feel very uncomfortable while I was reading them. I wanted to approach this topic carefully while still celebrating the atmosphere and storytelling that make these books so compelling so I hope this comes across in the video. We’ve got a mix of gothic, horror and psychological thrillers so hopefully you’ll find a new favourite read from this list. Books in this video: The Night Counsellor by LK Pang The Asylum by Karen Coles The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides The Mad Women’s Ball by Victoria Mas Phantom Limb by Lucinda Berry Ward D by Freida McFadden Crypt of the Moon Spider by Nathan Ballingrud One For Sorrow by Sarah A Denzil The Unravelling of Mary Reddish by David Whitfield Eight Cases of Janet by RJ Powell Blood On Her Tongue by Johanna Van Veen The Madness by Dawn Kurtagich No Women Were Harmed by Heather Mottershead TBR Books Asylum by Madeleine Roux The Asylum Confessions by Jack Steen Madwoman by Louisa Treger The Haunting of Abney Heights by Cat Thomas The Girl Behind the Gates by Brenda Davies Lily by Rose Tremain The Medea Complex by Rachel Florence Roberts Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane I really hope you enjoy this video. Please don’t forget to hit the subscribe button if you do enjoy my content and thank you so much for being here 🙏🏻💕 🔗 LINKS ⭐️ Channel Membership:    / @thepastelbookshelf   🎵 TikTok:     https://www.tiktok.com/@thepastelbook... 📸 Insta: https://www.instagram.com/thepastelbo... 📚 Goodreads: Check out my profile on Goodreads!   / 177060862   👚Bookish Merch - code CARLY15 for 15% off at Stitchess https://stitchess.co.uk 👓 GLASSES - code HBGD50 | https://www.firmoo.co.uk/?utm_source=... 📖Online Book Club: https://fable.co/club/books-bakes-boo... 🎧Free audiobook trial with Bookbeat: https://www.filify.co/SHEz9 * Collabs/Business Enquiries: [email protected] *this is an affiliate link so I do earn a small commission if you use my link. Thank you if you do! 🙌🏻🙏🏻 #booktube #HorrorBooks #PsychologicalThriller #GothicBooks #DarkReads #BookRecommendations #DisturbingBooks #AsylumBooks #HorrorReaders #ThrillerBooks #GothicHorror #Bookish #ReadingRecommendations #SpookyBooks