Returning to our reclusive novelist James Printzler, we discover his next book seemingly continuing to write itself. However, his situation in the cabin begins to grow even stranger, tugging at Jame's growing unease, bordering on paranoia...

![TRIGGER WARNING: This episode includes references to alcohol abuse, self-harm, and physical violence.]

James Printzler's first novel was an overnight success. Now, days from the deadline for his next novel, he has nothing... but he's about to wake up to a few startling facts, especially when words start appearing on his computer. Words he swears he never wrote...

![TRIGGER WARNING: This episode includes references to suicide, self harm, alcohol abuse, and physical violence.]

Original Story, written by Chrispin Yata

MANHUNT COMPLETE is a full-length, single-episode version combining all 4 parts of the story. This is a cinematic, 30-minute episode is a horror story about adolescence, control, and what happens when bigotry is mistaken for belief.

Set in a humid southern town at the end of the 1990s, a group of high-school friends plays a late-night game of Manhunt to escape curfews, sermons, and the pressure closing in around them. But when the game bleeds into real life, the woods become something else entirely... and going home doesn't mean you're "safe."

As paranoia grows and the town closes ranks, this story explores how silence is enforced, how belief can be weaponized, and how easily authority turns predatory when no one is willing to look too closely at themselves. What begins as a coming-of-age memory becomes a relentless psychological descent where survival depends on knowing when to run... and not to follow blindly.

Dark, atmospheric, and deeply unsettling, MANHUNT is a story about growing up under judgment, the true cost of disobedience, and the truth that the most dangerous monsters are rarely the ones hiding in the woods.

MANHUNT, PART IV — Wade in the Water

The game is over, but eyes are still watching from the dark.

Paranoia turns into pursuit as Hannah returns to the woods she swore to avoid. What follows is a suffocating night of whispers, shadows, and a thunderous confrontation fueled by twisted belief and unchecked authority.

Dark, relentless, and deeply unsettling, “Wade in the Water” explores what happens when fear wears the mask of righteousness... and why survival sometimes means running without looking back.

MANHUNT, PART III: Confessions and Fire

A knock in the middle of the night turns fear into momentum. As faith hardens into accusation and confession becomes a weapon, loyalty is tested under flickering candlelight and watchful eyes. With nowhere left to run but back into the woods, the truth begins to surface in impossible choices. Some sins are demanded. Others are burned away.

MANHUNT, PART II: The Woods Do Not Forget

Morning brings answers no one asked for... and questions no one wants to face. As grief curdles into rumor and suspicion, the town closes ranks, faith tightens its grip, and the woods begin to feel less like a place and more like a witness.

What starts as mourning pulls a group of friends back into the dark, where something is watching, waiting, and refusing to stay buried. Some places remember what we ourselves try to forget... and they don’t give absolution without penance.

MANHUNT is a full-cast horror narrative told through a single survivor’s voice.

Part 1: Set in the last sweltering days of high school in a deeply religious Southern town, Manhunt follows a group of graduating seniors who play a nighttime game across their suburban neighborhood to escape oppressive homes, strict parents, and the suffocating weight of belief. What begins as rebellion, nostalgia, and dark humor turns into a nightmare when one of the girls vanishes in the woods...

In this episode of Campfire Horror Stories, Claire explores a cave... what happens next is for you to discover on your own. Just as Claire did...