Tender Prey is the fifth studio album by the Australian rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, released on 19 September 1988 on Mute Records.

Produced by Flood, the album was recorded during several sessions over the course of four months in London and West Berlin (where the band were based at the time of its release) and dedicated to the Brazilian actor Fernando Ramos da Silva.

"Deanna" is loosely based on the Edwin Hawkins Singers version of the hymn "Oh Happy Day".

Upon its release, Tender Prey received positive reviews and charted in the United Kingdom and Greece.

"[14] Cave later admitted that the album, "was made at a difficult time in my life when things were spiralling out of control in a lot of areas.