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The Dorians
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About The Book
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…
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Product Details
- Publisher: Gallery Books (May 19, 2026)
- Length: 400 pages
- ISBN13: 9781668079560
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Raves and 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 descent into body horror, [The Dorians] is brimming with squirm-worthy moments and pure textural malevolence that feel like classic Cutter, but it also offers new ways for [him] to explore deeper themes...Cutter’s gift for tension as tight as piano wire kicks into gear. The book moves at breakneck pace...an up-all-night horror story...[and a] warm character drama that is one of the author’s best works." —BookPage (starred review)
"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
“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
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
"Nick Cutter writes some of the scariest . . . horror novels around." —Variety
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
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