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Nick Cutter on His Disturbing New Book ‘The Queen,’ Becoming an Unlikely TikTok Star and Why ‘The Troop’ Movie Has Been So Hard to Make
Horror author Nick Cutter opens up about his emotional and disturbing new novel "The Queen," being an unwitting TikTok star and the "Troop" movie.
While firing up our Zoom conversation to discuss his new book, “ The Queen,” I told Cutter I was riveted by the story, but my wife could only make it halfway through the galley, as the vivid descriptions of body horror and insects made her stomach churn. He notes that the Cutter persona speaks to “the horror that I grew up on”: Stephen King, Clive Barker and Dean Koontz, of course, but more specifically “men and women in the drugstore spinning rack.” Cutter teased both stories with Variety, describing “The Dorians” as “a bunch of elderly people who have consented to assisted death are given an opportunity to go to this retreat where they have broken open the notion of the reversing the aging process.
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