The #iHunt Universe
TL;DR
A monster-hunting universe with a built-in audience, now in development as a feature film, TV series, and an online vertical.
For over a decade, Olivia Hill has been conjuring #iHunt — seven novels, a gold-bestselling RPG, and a thousand pages of full-color material, with an audience that found all of it on its own. Olivia didn't expand this world alone. Her co-conspirator Filamena Young has been in it from the start, writing two of the novels herself and co-writing the screen pilot. No studio, no marketing budget, pure passion. Olivia and Filamena are the architects of San Jenaro. Once you come inside, you’ll see they've made plenty of room for everyone. Whether you make it out is up to you.
The film and the series aren't where the #iHunt story begins. They’re the inevitable next chapter. #iHunt is officially entering its screen era.
The OG
Here’s where #iHunt began...and the receipts
Over 58,000 copies sold on DriveThruRPG, which IS the digital RPG market. A gold-bestseller the month it launched, with no Kickstarter which is virtually unheard of. Created and written by Filamena Young & Olivia Hill, modified Fate Core, and people are still playing it years later.
Seven novels, half a million words, set in San Jenaro, a city where the supernatural is just another exploitative industry and the rent’s still due on the 1st.
A 4.6 average across 200 Amazon ratings, several titles sitting at a perfect five. The people who read it love it.
33 full-color zines, 16 to 50 pages each, collected into five hardcover seasons, over a thousand pages in all. Themed “decades” editions set in the 1920s, ’50s, ’80s, and ’90s.
A short film, Loose Threads (2025), that won the Short of the Year Online Audience Award.
All of this with no machine behind it. Imagine it with some backing.
Paper trail
2010
• 🩸 At PAX East, Olivia Hill guides about 300 strangers through building a playable RPG live, in under an hour. Kotaku and The Escapist cover it.
• 🩸 That same year she’s named Industry Insider Guest of Honor at Gen Con.
2016
• 🩸 Blood Flow.
• #iHunt: Killing Monsters in the Gig Economy.
2018 — ULTRA.
2019
• Reaching Out, written by Filamena Young and The Chosen One.
• The whole catalogue gets re-released with branded covers.
• 🩸 December: the RPG drops
2020 — A Fourgy, an anthology of #iHunt novellas.
2022 — Reaching In, written by Filamena Young.
2025
• Loose Threads goes into production — directed by Stirling Matheson, written by Olivia Hill.
• 🩸 The feature script is written — #iHunt: Killing Monsters in the Gig Economy.
• Loose Threads premieres August 9 — and wins the Short of the Year Online Audience Award.
2026
• 🩸 The vertical is written — #iHunt: A Night in the Life, first two episodes.
• 🩸 The series pilot is written — #iHunt, episode one (working title: Lana and the Impalers) written by Olivia Hill & Filamena Young
• Gen Con screening of short film, Loose Threads, July 30.
• All three screen tracks now in active development.
The San Jenaro Gothics
Playing catch-up? Start here — the whole seven-novel run.
Killing Monsters in the Gig Economy · The Chosen One · Reaching Out · Reaching In · ULTRA · Blood Flow · A Fourgy
Coming Attractions
There are three ways in. Pick a door. None of them are wrong. Each one lives in San Jenaro with its own characters, and you’re welcome to stay as long as you can handle it.
The Feature — #iHunt: Killing Monsters in the Gig Economy.
Charlotte’s story, as a cinematic event.
The Series — #iHunt.
Lana’s world, one-hour appointment television. Every episode gets a different title; the crew’s never-ending search for the perfect name for their group.
The Vertical — #iHunt: A Night in the Life.
Hannah on her nightly rounds — sixty seconds of danger and fun.