Matthew Petchinsky
When the lights go out, evolution wakes up.A sudden global blackout fractures civilization across five major cities. What emerges from the darkness is not animal, not machine-but something older, rewritten. Raptors adapted beyond sound. Beyond sight. Beyond instinct. They hunt through resonance, silence, and pattern, reshaping the underground into living nests while humanity struggles to understand what it has already lost.As survivors descend into tunnels and forgotten infrastructure, a horrifying truth surfaces: the creatures are no longer feeding-they are building. Breeding grounds form beneath cities. Human bodies become data. Memory becomes a liability. And one woman, briefly connected to the predators’ intelligence, realizes the most terrifying revelation of all: humanity was never the enemy.It was the tutorial.Cretaceous Black is a relentless techno-horror epic that blends evolutionary dread, survival terror, and apocalyptic science fiction into a story where extinction is not an ending-but a strategy. As predators stop hunting humans and begin organizing among themselves, the question is no longer whether humanity will survive......but whether it still matters.Dark, intelligent, and disturbingly plausible, Cretaceous Black launches a series that redefines what it means to be prey in a world no longer built for us.
