Nick Cutter
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Born
Toronto, Canada
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Influences
The usual. Alcohol, mainly.
Member Since
June 2013
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The Troop
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2014
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The Deep
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Little Heaven
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2017
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The Handyman Method
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2023
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The Acolyte
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Dark Cities
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Howls From the Wreckage: An Anthology of Disaster Horror
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A Very DC Halloween
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The Queen
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2024
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Nick Cutter
answered a question about
The Handyman Method:
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“It came down to that flexibility of a person’s mind. An ability to withstand horrors and snap back, like a fresh elastic band. A flinty mind shattered. In this way, he was glad not to be an adult. A grown-up’s mind—even one belonging to a decent man like Scoutmaster Tim—lacked that elasticity. The world had been robbed of all its mysteries, and with those mysteries went the horror. Adults didn’t believe in old wives’ tales. You didn’t see adults stepping over sidewalk cracks out of the fear that they might somehow, some way, break their mothers’ backs. They didn’t wish on stars: not with the squinty-eyed fierceness of kids, anyway. You’ll never find an adult who believes that saying “Bloody Mary” three times in front of a mirror in a dark room will summon a dark, blood-hungry entity. Adults were scared of different things: their jobs, their mortgages, whether they hung out with the “right people,” whether they would die unloved. These were pallid compared to the fears of a child—leering clowns under the bed and slimy monsters capering beyond the basement’s light and faceless sucking horrors from beyond the stars. There’s no 12-step or self-help group for dealing with those fears. Or maybe there is: you just grow up. And when you do, you surrender the nimbleness of mind required to believe in such things—but also to cope with them. And so when adults find themselves in a situation where that nimbleness is needed . . . well, they can’t summon it. So they fall to pieces: go insane, panic, suffer heart attacks and aneurysms brought on by fright. Why? They simply don’t believe it could be happening. That’s what’s different about kids: they believe everything can happen, and fully expect it to.”
― The Troop
― The Troop
Polls
1st Quarter 2019 - Horror #2
The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell, 305p
Sawkill Girls by Claire Legrand, 450p
We Sold Our Souls by Grady Hendrix, 337p
Little Eve by Catriona Ward, 288p
Handling the Undead by John Ajvide Lindqvist, 384p
Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill, 376p
Carpathia by Matt Forbeck, 324p
The Troop by Nick Cutter, 358p
The Eye Collector by Sebastian Fitzek, 436p
The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle, 149p
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I’m Looking forward to reading Little Heaven this year! I’m sure it will be brilliant!
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