Trophies: The Woods Where Cryptids Hunt. A Horror Novel

By Allison Woods

TROPHIES
The Woods Where Cryptids Hunt
A Horror Novel
By Allison Woods

When something watches from the trees...
it's already too late.

After a violent robbery, Ryan Carter and three other criminals vanish into a vast stretch of wilderness, carrying bags of stolen cash and hoping to lie low until the heat dies down.

Ryan knows these woods.

He grew up near them.

But even as a child he was warned never to go too deep.

Some places in the forest were simply... wrong.

Now, decades later, Ryan is leading the group straight into those same trees.

At first the forest seems quiet.

Too quiet.

But when the criminals encounter two hikers deep in the woods, the fragile balance inside the group begins to fracture.

And something else is already watching from the darkness.

Something patient.

Something intelligent.

Something that hunts in a pack.

When one of the creatures attacks, Ryan realizes the truth: these are not bears... not wolves... and not anything science can explain.

They are ancient predators of the deep woods.

And the forest is their territory.

The pack does not kill at random.

It chooses a target.

Then the hunt begins.

One by one, the humans are forced into a brutal game of survival as the creatures drive them deeper into the darkness - stalking, separating, and breaking them.

In the forest, fear spreads faster than blood.

Alliances shatter.

Secrets surface.

And the greatest threat may not be the monsters waiting in the trees... but the desperate people trying to survive beside you.

Because in these woods, everyone becomes prey.

As the night closes in and the hunt turns savage, Ryan must face the truth about the forest... and about himself.

If he wants to survive until dawn, he will have to make a choice.

Run.

Fight.

Or become just another trophy.

TROPHIES is a relentless, atmospheric horror novel about the things that live where the map ends... and what happens when humans wander into a forest that was never meant for them.

Some forests are older than memory.
And some things inside them have been hunting far longer than humans have been alive.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GWQPLQGT
• ISBN13: 9798255639809
• Release Date: April 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 138 Pages
• Weight: 0.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"