The Dorians
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- $20.99
Publisher Description
USA TODAY BESTSELLER
The all-new novel of terror from “one of the hottest horror authors on the planet” (Paste) and writer of the #HorrorBookTok sensation The Troop!
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….
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A laboratory experiment to reverse the aging process goes horribly awry in this grisly squirmfest from Cutter (The Troop). Its five principal characters are all chronically ill elders who are forestalled in their plans for medically assisted suicide by Astrid Marsh, a 19-year-old scientific prodigy who offers them a shot at both rehabilitation and rejuvenation at her clandestinely financed facility on a remote Canadian island. Astrid implants each with a "hydra," a jellyfish-like symbiote capable of restoring damaged body tissue, after which they all enjoy a remarkable reversal of their biological clocks, and revel as self-nicknamed "Dorians," after Oscar Wilde's youth-craving sensualist Dorian Gray. But all five face a terrible reckoning when unforeseen circumstances knock them off the path of eternal preservation and force them to contend with the ghastly complications of their altered biology. Though the plot feels formulaic, Cutter drives it 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.
