About THE NEED TO FEED: A Northern Gorilla Survival Horror:
THE NEED TO FEEDA Northern Gorilla Survival Horrorby Allison WoodsSnow. Silence. Blood.High in the Alaskan backcountry, the world narrows to white and breath. Hunters vanish. Camps are torn open like carcasses. The locals whisper of what walks the ridgelines when the storm closes in: the Mountain Spirit—a white-furred thing with a man’s stance, a predator’s patience, and a law older than language.Dr. Travis Holt didn’t come chasing legends. A zoologist haunted by a past failure, he came for data: missing wolves, odd migrations, an ecosystem gone wrong. But the deeper his team pushes into the trees, the clearer it becomes—something else now rules the food chain. The silence is unnatural. The forest is marked. And then the rules hunt them back.When a blizzard drives them into the creature’s domain, science snaps into survival. Alongside Travis are Emily Carter, his fellow zoologist who refuses to scare; Malik and Nathan, local men steeped in mountain superstition; Leon, the talkative field tech who masks fear with humor; and Walter, the expedition’s nervous, impulsive leader whose decisions carry the weight of life or death.Together they stumble into a nightmare written in claw marks and bone. And the myth steps out of the white—not Bigfoot, not bear, but something older, built to dominate, bound by a single law that governs every breath it takes:the need to feed.But teeth and ice aren’t the only dangers. Terror corrodes from within. Panic fractures loyalties. Grief drags like a weight. Guilt festers until it’s as lethal as claws. Travis knows the cost of hesitation—he’s paid it before. Now, with Emily’s life in the balance and the storm erasing their tracks, he must learn to read what the forest is telling them: the silence between the howls, the geometry carved into bark, the sense that every step crosses a line they were never meant to cross. One mistake, and they’re no longer explorers. They’re prey.What you’ll find inside:Cryptid horror, brutal and real: A northern ape born of folklore and biology, hunting with strategy, testing territory, leaving warnings carved into wood and bone.Survival under pressure: Whiteout conditions, dwindling choices, and the deadly math of fatigue, cold, and fear.Psychological stakes that cut deep: Guilt, love, and the splintering of a small team when the only way out is through each other.Cinematic set pieces: A lair of hides and ice; a pursuit through marked trees; a final stand where science and superstition collide.Equal parts creature-feature and survival horror, THE NEED TO FEED delivers not just the blood and terror of the hunt, but the human cost of facing something that should not exist.Allison Woods turns the frozen wilderness into a cathedral of dread—every groan of ice, every hush of falling snow, a reminder that the mountain doesn’t care whether you believe in monsters.Open the first page and the storm shuts behind you. The silence thickens. The forest watches.Something moves in the white, and it is hungry.
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Author Bio:
Allison Woods is a celebrated international author whose works have captivated readers around the world. Her books, available in English, Russian, Ukrainian, and Spanish, are sold globally on major platforms such as Amazon. Known for her evocative storytelling and profound insight into the human experience, Woods has become a literary phenomenon—transcending cultural and linguistic boundaries.
Early Life and Background
Born in a small town and raised amidst the serene beauty of nature, Allison carries the quiet strength and sensitivity of her Eastern European roots. Her love for stories emerged at a young age, inspired by the books she discovered in her local library and the bedtime tales her grandmother told. Woods often describes her grandmother—a woman of warmth and wisdom—as her first muse and the source of her fascination with human emotion and myth.
Allison loves hearing from readers around the world. Readers can reach her directly at allisonwoods.monsters at gmail dot com