Nick Cutter is a pen name used by Craig Davidson for horror that pushes bodies and groups of people into extreme physical pressure. The Troop strands a Scout troop on an island with a horrifying parasitic infection, mixing survival horror with graphic body transformation. The Deep sends a research team into an undersea station while a mysterious disease affects the world above, and The Acolyte imagines a theocratic society policed through religious violence. Little Heaven brings mercenaries, a religious settlement and an inhuman presence together in the wilderness. Cutter's books are fast, bleak and deliberately graphic, using isolation and biological threat more than subtle supernatural suggestion. The natural catalogue links are body horror, survival horror and contemporary extreme horror. Read more Less