r/horrorlit discussion

Pick your poison (Nick Cutter book) you want to read and post your choice here. We will comment, compare, contrasts, and just generally share our Nick Cutter experiences. For myself, I'm going to start with The Deep

I’m going to start The Troop because I hear so much about it.

My local library has Little Heaven available so thats what I'll be reading! Just read The Troop earlier this week as well

I’ve read the Troop, the Deep is my next book when I finish my current one.

Was interested in the troop cause I’ve heard the most about it but my library only had the deep available so I’ll be reading that one starting probably later tonight

I’ll be reading Little Heaven after my current book 😁

Torn between The Troupe and The Deep. I want to read both!

I'm having a similar dilemma, between The Deep and The Acolyte. has anyone read both, or have input on which I should go with?

Read both The Troop and The Deep last year. Two extremely different experiences and enjoyment levels.

I really really loved The Troop. Very fun, classic type horror with tons of body horror if you’re into that.

I've seen a lot of people requesting The Troop over the years so I'll probably give that a shot here soon.

I read The Troop a couple of months ago (that was a visceral experience...!) and I have Little Heaven waiting for me on my Kindle, so I'm hoping to start that soon. I've heard mixed things.

I’ve only read The Troop but I really liked it. Looking forward to reading more.

I'll be reading The Troop once I finish My Best Friend's Exorcism.

Matthew wrote: "I'll be reading The Troop once I finish My Best Friend's Exorcism."


Ohhh My Best Friends Exorcism is SO good! Have fun with it!

Nicky نیکی wrote: "I’m going to start The Troop because I hear so much about it."

I just finished The Troop earlier in the week. Enjoy!

Read The Troop some time ago and loved it. Have The Deep on my shelf so will like to start that one.

Finished The Deep about a week ago and I decided I wanted to take some time before reviewing the book. I wasn't sure if my initial impressions (while reading) would remain the same after I had some time to process, and there was a lot to process.
While reading, I kept saying in my head, "I wish he would stick to the same kind of horror because, for me anyway, it would go back and forth between psychological horror and sci-fi monster horror. Was Luke seeing things in his head or were these things really happening in the physical (sci-fi monster) world? There were a lot of both, I think.
Maybe, the real problem was my own expectations. When I started reading, I was thinking we were headed in the direction of the Campbell novella, Who Goes There (source for The Thing movie), and I would have been perfectly happy with that. Then again, I could have enjoyed the characters suffering from purely psychological horror brought about by the oft referenced symptoms of being at that depth. The problem with switching back and forth, was that it made, for me least, the protagonist an unreliable narrator. Call me a wimp, but that is something I don't deal with very well.
Funny though, I liked the ending because, intentionally or not, it allowed me to decide for myself whether it was one or the other. I chose sci-fi monster.

Good question. I think I'll wait to see what the others in this group say about their Nick Cutter's. I could also be convinced to start another thread for a different author.
Would you consider the body horror and extension of the sci-fi horror? Obviously you can have one without the other, but I read it as making the sci-fi horror more gruesome.

Yes. And maybe I lack imagination, or either I'm a bit of a ghoul, but the body horror part of the sci-fi horror doesn't shock or bother me. For me that's part of the fun in fiction, I can experience the outrageous secure in the comfort that it's not real. "No animals [including humans] were harmed..." right?