I have been looking for creepy stories of the predator/prey variety.
Searching for 5 years I have had limited success in finding descent stories that sends that unwanted shiver down your spine; that feeling in your stomach that says you are screwed. Finding a story like this has been hard for me. Mabye the stories I have found have just grown on me.

My favorite set of stories so far is the jack the rabbit series. It is creepy and clever. The characters are gripping and have many flaws that further adds to the immersion. The characters are put in shitty situations and have to figure out how to get them selves out of them. I subjest this line up of stories to any one.

If any one has any links to a story along these lines I would be thankful for your time. Also if any one has a scary story/dream/experience they would like to share, feel free. I would like to share mine.

~Thank you for your time.

Si_288 said:
I have been looking for creepy stories of the predator/prey variety.
Searching for 5 years I have had limited success in finding descent stories that sends that unwanted shiver down your spine; that feeling in your stomach that says you are screwed.

Sounds like horror-thriller with a major theme of being hunted. Also many slasher films fit that description, and then there's psychological horror. Which is to say, if you wanted to find more of the same, I suggest keeping those genre keywords in mind.

As for myself, growing up I felt I subjected myself to enough crappy rental horror films that I didn't want to watch but couldn't look away for one reason or another such that I've sworn off the genre of overt horror for the rest of my life.

My favorite set of stories so far is the jack the rabbit series. It is creepy and clever. The characters are gripping and have many flaws that further adds to the immersion. The characters are put in shitty situations and have to figure out how to get them selves out of them. I subjest this line up of stories to any one.

I can drop a few names that might interest you:

First there's Dexter, a TV series based on the book series about a serial killer who tracks down and murders other killers and unrepentant criminals who would otherwise escape the criminal justice system as a "safe" outlet for his own bloodlust. This was not watered down television. I watched four or five seasons and liked the first one the most as tends to happen. The following seasons explored other plotlines but always seemed to milk the premise of the first, which I tolerated for a while until the drama felt too forced and the series overlong.Two stories I read in "an old as fuck book " (1944) come to mind: "The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell and "Leiningen versus the Ants" by Carl Stephenson. These are both classic short stories that were adapted to movies decades ago and have elements you mentioned in your post. Honestly, I thought neither story was good, but they gained pop culture fame in years past regardless of my opinions. Flipping through that book now, I can't remember much of the rest of the stories, and those I do remember seem irrelevant or difficult to recommend.However, I can recommend two even more famous short stories: "The Willows" by Algernon Blackwood and "It's a Good Life" by Jerome Bixby. Neither story involves hunting, but they both have "characters put into shitty situations" with a developing sense of terror as you realize just how shitty those situations are. On the other hand, "The Autopsy" by Michael Shea and "Flat Diana" by Daniel Abraham each feature a predator/prey relationship--but not the ones you'd expect--and rising desperation from the main characters until they are driven past their breaking points. These stories are good and can all be found in this book along with 1000 textbook-sized pages (so more like 2000+ pages of a normal-sized book) of other mostly good stories.You'll have to use Google skills to find copies of these.And for what it's worth, many stories can elicit "that unwanted shiver down your spine; that feeling in your stomach that says you are screwed" that don't feature a predator/prey relationship, unless of course the threat of vore especially sweetens the deal for you.

abadbird said:
Sounds like horror-thriller with a major theme of being hunted. Also many slasher films fit that description, and then there's psychological horror. Which is to say, if you wanted to find more of the same, I suggest keeping those genre keywords in mind.

As for myself, growing up I felt I subjected myself to enough crappy rental horror films that I didn't want to watch but couldn't look away for one reason or another such that I've sworn off the genre of overt horror for the rest of my life.

I can drop a few names that might interest you:

First there's Dexter, a TV series based on the book series about a serial killer who tracks down and murders other killers and unrepentant criminals who would otherwise escape the criminal justice system as a "safe" outlet for his own bloodlust. This was not watered down television. I watched four or five seasons and liked the first one the most as tends to happen. The following seasons explored other plotlines but always seemed to milk the premise of the first, which I tolerated for a while until the drama felt too forced and the series overlong.Two stories I read in "an old as fuck book " (1944) come to mind: "The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell and "Leiningen versus the Ants" by Carl Stephenson. These are both classic short stories that were adapted to movies decades ago and have elements you mentioned in your post. Honestly, I thought neither story was good, but they gained pop culture fame in years past regardless of my opinions. Flipping through that book now, I can't remember much of the rest of the stories, and those I do remember seem irrelevant or difficult to recommend.However, I can recommend two even more famous short stories: "The Willows" by Algernon Blackwood and "It's a Good Life" by Jerome Bixby. Neither story involves hunting, but they both have "characters put into shitty situations" with a developing sense of terror as you realize just how shitty those situations are. On the other hand, "The Autopsy" by Michael Shea and "Flat Diana" by Daniel Abraham each feature a predator/prey relationship--but not the ones you'd expect--and rising desperation from the main characters until they are driven past their breaking points. These stories are good and can all be found in this book along with 1000 textbook-sized pages (so more like 2000+ pages of a normal-sized book) of other mostly good stories.You'll have to use Google skills to find copies of these.And for what it's worth, many stories can elicit "that unwanted shiver down your spine; that feeling in your stomach that says you are screwed" that don't feature a predator/prey relationship, unless of course the threat of vore especially sweetens the deal for you.

I remember The Most Dangerous Game. That was fun to read in high school.
Dexter kinda bores me.

The books you mentioned I will be taking a look at. Including that old as fuck book. That sounds like a cool book.

It's not so much the threat of vore that sweetens the deal for me. It is the fact there are characters that would go out of their way into to spare another character even though they will have to be pained because of that choice. I guess you could call it mercy play if that's really what is and I do not know it my self.

Thank you for the links. Time to read.