Darcy CoatesHorror · Gothic
Hunted
Synopsis
Hunted is a 2018 survival horror novel by bestselling Australian author Darcy Coates, a tense wilderness thriller about a search party that becomes the prey. When Eileen vanishes off-trail in the vast Ashlough Forest and her recovered camera shows impossible photographs taken after she went missing, her friend Chris refuses to give up on her.
Leading a small group deep into the mountains after the official search is called off, Chris uncovers signs that something deliberate and predatory is at work among the trees. Coates ratchets the dread steadily, trading jump-scares for creeping isolation and the growing certainty that the forest is not empty.
Atmospheric and relentlessly paced, Hunted will appeal to readers of survival horror and wilderness thrillers who like their scares grounded, claustrophobic, and human.
How it reads
Prose complexity 1/10
Content warnings (2)
ViolenceKidnapping
- Another well written horror from Darcy. She is now my go to when I'm feeling like a good horror story. She just has a way of drawing you in and getting the hairs up on your arms. This one was quite a bit different from her other stories as it drifted away from the supernatural elements but still just as excellent.
- This was a crime thriller, rather than the horror that I expected. Even then, it was pretty good. I don't mind violence but sometimes I get sensitive, lol. Some explanations ended up being on the bad side of absurd, but I'm not mad I read this.