Dorians

Nick Cutter

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Dorians

Dorians

Nick Cutter

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The all-new novel of terror from "one of the hottest horror authors on the planet" (Paste) and writer of the #HorrorBookTok sensation The Troop!

On a remote island in the Canadian wilderness, five elderly volunteers from different walks of life are given a tantalizing offer: to stall their biological clocks or even reverse them, restoring their lost youth. The chance to put death on pause--forever, perhaps. The remarkable secret lies in the high-tech harnessing of an ancient and extraordinary biological agent...one with no conscience, yet possessed with a single-minded purpose that has helped it persist for eons: the will to survive. The dark heart of unbridled human ambition finds its apex in an unholy experiment that now tests the limits of both creator and subject, eclipsing all bounds of morality and sanity....

About the Author

Nick Cutter is the author of the critically acclaimed national bestseller The Troop (which is currently being developed for film with producer James Wan), The Deep, Little Heaven, The Queen, and The Handyman Method, cowritten with Andrew F. Sullivan. Nick Cutter is the pseudonym for Craig Davidson, whose much-lauded literary fiction includes Rust and Bone, The Saturday Night Ghost Club, and, most recently, the short story collection Cascade. His story "Medium Tough" was selected by author Jennifer Egan for The Best American Short Stories 2014. He lives in Toronto, Canada.

Critical Reviews

"Nick Cutter is a dark magician at the peak of his storytelling powers. Innovative, shocking, and downright terrifying, The Dorians is the terror trip all horror fans have been waiting for. Playing God has never felt so tempting...or deadly." --Richard Chizmar, New York Times bestselling author of Widow's Point: The Complete Haunting and Chasing the Boogeyman

"Cutter tackles the concept of mortality while channeling his inner Oscar Wilde, yet present is all the squirmy, gruesome, icky wonderfulness that has made Nick Cutter such a treat to read. Fans of his previous books will find him here at the top of his ghastly game. Highly recommended." --Ronald Malfi, bestselling author of The Hive and Small Town Horror

"This modern sci-fi/horror hybrid shares DNA with Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, but that DNA has mutated into something gleefully grotesque...Cutter once again shows his knack for straddling the razor-thin line between fully realized characters and skin-crawling body horror...readers, both fascinated and appalled, cannot look away." --Library Journal (starred review)

"A grisly squirmfest......ghastly...Cutter drives [The Dorians] to a crackling finale that unfolds, appropriately, during a dark and stormy night. Horror fans with a taste for the gruesome will not be disappointed." --Publishers Weekly

"I have seen the future of 21st century horror, and his name is Nick Cutter...grimly fascinating and deeply unnerving...The Dorians is a grand slam, a major new work by a major author in the horror field, and one that will leave your reeling, and thinking, long after you've finished with it." --Robert Mammone, Grimdark Magazine

"Nick Cutter [is] one of the hottest horror authors on the planet." --Paste

"Nick Cutter writes some of the scariest . . . horror novels around." --Variety

Praise for the works of Nick Cutter:
THE TROOP
"The Troop scared the hell out of me, and I couldn't put it down. This is old-school horror at its best." --Stephen King

"Lean and crisp and over-the-top. Disquieting, disturbing." --Scott Smith, New York Times bestselling author of The Ruins

THE DEEP
"Utterly terrifying." --Clive Barker

LITTLE HEAVEN
"Gripping and terrifying....An intense experience, and one not to be missed!" --Robert McCammon

"A slow boil of unrelenting terror and inescapable consequences. Nick Cutter ups his game every time. Beautifully written--menace drips from every page." --Seanan McGuire

THE HANDYMAN METHOD (with Andrew F. Sullivan)
"A hallucinatory, chilling read that raises its level of dread and tension with each turn of the page...horrifying." --Gus Moreno, acclaimed author of This Thing Between Us

THE QUEEN
"Terrifying . . . On the horror front, this book is a triumph. . . . Cutter knows how to get under your skin, which he does time and again." --The New York Times Book Review

"Harrowing . . . unforgettable . . . Cutter's writing kept me utterly enthralled. I have never turned pages faster, but I'm certain my brain will be buzzing with this book for a long time to come." --Ling Ling Huang, award-winning author of Natural Beauty

"You may think you know where this story is going, and you will be totally wrong--Nick Cutter is at the wheel, and he's one hell of a driver! One of the most original books I've ever read. Relatable, surprising, and frightening from the first moment, in more ways than one." --CJ Leede, acclaimed author of American Rapture and Maeve Fly

"At its core, all horror is about death, but in his latest, Cutter challenges readers to directly confront living, aging, and dying...this is a gripping, original, and existentially terrifying story...allow[s] the unease to increase organically as readers get swept up in the people, the drama, and the scientific wonder until they find themselves stuck in its tendrils, facing the horror on the page and their own mortality." --Booklist

Publishing Information

Publisher: Gallery Books
Pub date: 2026-05-19
Length: 400 pages

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