The Dorians
The Terrifying New Body Horror Spectacular Set On A Remote Island
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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!
Five dying people: On a remote island in the Canadian wilderness, five elderly volunteers are offering themselves up to an extraordinary secret experiment: they'll take a miracle drug, one that promises to stall the human biological clock or even reverse it, to restore lost youth. The chance to put death on pause, perhaps forever.
One miracle cure: By harnessing an ancient and extraordinary biological agent, scientists can turn back time for their five patients. But this real-world fountain of youth is derived from the DNA of something with no heart, no mind and no conscience, something possessed with a single-minded purpose: the will to survive, whatever it takes.
What could possibly go wrong: And as the experiment takes on a terrifying life of its own, those few who are able to fight back will have to use everything they've got just to stay alive . . . and human.
A terrifying descent into mayhem, murder and madness from the twisted mind behind THE TROOP and THE DEEP.
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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.
