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Nick Cutter

    Questo autore crea racconti horror agghiaccianti che esplorano frequentemente i limiti della resistenza umana di fronte a un male inimmaginabile. Il suo stile è noto per la sua cruda intensità e la capacità di rappresentare scenari terrificanti con un'urgenza che cattura il lettore. Attraverso le sue narrazioni, cerca di esporre gli aspetti più oscuri della natura umana e di esaminare cosa accade quando i personaggi sono costretti ad affrontare le loro paure più profonde in ambienti isolati e pericolosi.

    Nick Cutter
    The Handyman Method: A Story of Terror
    The Handyman Method
    The Acolyte
    The Deep
    Little heaven
    The troop
    • Leading a troop of boys into the Canadian wilderness for a traditional weekend camping trip, scoutmaster Tim Riggs encounters a disturbing, voraciously hungry intruder in the woods who infects the troop with a bioengineered disease.

      The troop
      3,8
    • Little heaven

      • 486pagine
      • 18 ore di lettura

      A trio of mismatched mercenaries is hired by a young woman to evaluate the safety of a boy who may have been taken against his will to a New Mexico backwoods settlement, where the mercenaries encounter paranoia, mistrust, and insanity in the shadow of a monolithic idol.

      Little heaven
      3,8
    • The Deep

      • 528pagine
      • 19 ore di lettura

      "A strange plague called the 'Gets is decimating humanity on a global scale. It causes people to forget--small things at first, like where they left their keys...then the not-so-small things like how to drive, or the letters of the alphabet. Then their bodies forget how to function involuntarily...and there is no cure. But now, far below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, deep in the Marianas Trench, an heretofore unknown substance hailed as "ambrosia" has been discovered--a universal healer, from initial reports. It may just be the key to a universal cure. In order to study this phenomenon, a special research lab, the Trieste, has been built eight miles under the sea's surface. But now the station is incommunicado, and it's up to a brave few to descend through the lightless fathoms in hopes of unraveling the mysteries lurking at those crushing depths..."--

      The Deep
      3,5
    • In an alternate future of ruling religious fanatacism, one man has lost faith.

      The Acolyte
      3,4
    • The Handyman Method

      • 304pagine
      • 11 ore di lettura

      "When a young family moves into an unfinished development community, cracks begin to emerge in both their new residence and their lives, as a mysterious online DIY instructor delivers dark subliminal suggestions about how to handle any problem around the house"--

      The Handyman Method
      3,3
    • A chilling domestic story of terror for fans of Black Mirror and The Amityville Horror. When a young family moves into an unfinished development community, cracks begin to emerge in both their new residence and their lives, as a mysterious online DIY instructor delivers dark subliminal suggestions about how to handle any problem around the house. The trials of home improvement, destructive insecurities, and haunted house horror all collide in this thrilling story perfect for fans of Nick Cutter’s bestsellers The Troop and The Deep.

      The Handyman Method: A Story of Terror
      3,3
    • Die Erlöser

      Thriller

      • 368pagine
      • 13 ore di lettura

      Unsere Welt in naher Zukunft: Die westliche Hemisphäre wird von religiösem Fundamentalismus regiert. Das Mantra der Neuen Republik lautet: Die Kirche ist der Staat. Jonah Murtag ist ein treuer Staatsdiener. Er arbeitet für die Religionspolizei, die brutal gegen Andersgläubige vorgeht. Alle sogenannten Sünder werden »umerzogen « oder hingerichtet. Als die Republik von einer Serie grausamer Attentate heimgesucht wird, gerät Jonahs Weltbild ins Wanken. Er stellt sich gegen die Republik – und wird zum Gehetzten …

      Die Erlöser
      3,5