The Conceptual Predator: A Cosmic Horror Novel of the Predatory Economy

You are tired because you are being hunted.
A forensic audit of humanity's predator economy.

When an alien forensic investigator arrives at the edge of our solar system, she expects to find a developing civilization. Instead, she finds a species drenched in the chemistry of fear.

Hearts racing. Hormones spiking. Bodies breaking. A world under siege, with no threat in sight.

As Auditor Zyd and her crew trace the source of humanity's terror through silent commuter trains, hospital lobbies, and hyper-active trading floors, they uncover something worse than any extinction-level event on record. It is an invisible predator, systemic, conceptual, and woven into every transaction, every screen, and every sleepless night.

It doesn't hunt with teeth. It hunts with debt, dopamine, and the promise that the line must always go up.

But when her crew's priorities begin to shift, Zyd realizes the predator doesn't just consume civilizations. It evolves through them.

And it has already noticed her.

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The Conceptual Predator // An audit of a predatory economy.

For readers of There Is No Antimemetics Division, Blindsight, and The Three-Body Problem.

The Accumulativis Cycle: Book One

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Dread Engine Press
Published: 07/10/2026
ISBN: 9781067862404
Pages: 362
Weight: 1.07lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d