His latest book, The Queen, is about a scientific scheme involving wasps and a billionaire. Needless to say, things go badly
When many Canadian writers approach their craft, they seem to consider how melancholy and ruminative they can become with recondite and lyrical descriptions of characters and their environments. When Nick Cutter sits down to write, his driving concern is what might happen if an angry, overly aggressive wasp stung someone in the eyeball.. The sequence, which features the novel’s protagonist, Margaret Carpenter, taking refuge in the walk-in freezer of the St.
In the years since Cutter, who also writes more literary fare under his real name, Craig Davidson, has been publishing horror fiction, his muse has taken him to some frankly bizarre places. His 2014 debut,, was about a Scout troop that succumbs to a grotesque infection by bioengineered worms while on a weekend camping trip.
Cutter’s approach to horror, which has not changed markedly since his first foray into the woods with that doomed Scout troop, has always reached back to the kind of 1980s pulp paperbacks he grew up reading. This is where the author claims affinity and inspiration – in the work of Stephen King, Robert R. McCammon, Clive Barker and their ilk. For.
No one seemed more surprised by this development than Cutter himself. “The way that books are being popularized has changed,” he says. “You’re grateful if you get swept up, because the idea is that it’s for the new generation of writers. But every so often, they go back and pick up an old chestnut.”will match the earlier book’s success, there is undoubtedly a loyal horror readership that will be eager to seek it out and discover what new mayhem the author has in store.
“I just don’t read reviews at this point,” he says. “The nice ones, you tend to think, ‘You’re just being a cupcake on me.’ And the bad ones, you think, ‘You’ve found the most corroded and base part of my soul and squeezed it in your fist.’”Switch gears. Give your brain a workout and do today's Daily Cryptic Crossword.
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