One of my favorite tropes ever is twisted games, like the saw movies, or the hunger games series. I would love some more recommendations with this trope. I’m talking psychological, mind games, messing with the victim, all that jazz. I’m okay with anything from YA with dark themes, to super intense horror novels. As long as there’s messed up games! Thank you!
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if you liked the hunger games, read HAPPYHEAD, it’s essentially a better, more modern version
The Long Walk and The Running Man (so much better than the movie) both by Stephen King. Written under his early pseudonym Richard Bachman.
Edit: they are both short stories in The Bachman Books collection.
If you can find The Bachman Books by Stephen King, you might like that. Four short stories he wrote under the pen-name Richard Bachman. Two of the four stories involve weird sports:
* one is The Long Walk, which is about a walk-to-the-death contest in a dystopian future
* the other is The Running Man, which was made in to a movie starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, and there are plans for a remake. Another literal title: contestants in a game where they’re trying to escape a city, while everyone is after them with guns.