Personally, I wanted to be known as Lemondrop Pennyfeather, but that suggested nom de plume was cruelly stricken down.Īaaanywhoo, I've written this book, The Troop. Not that I'm putting myself in their league, no way no how, but I'm just saying that was the idea behind the name. Horror writers should have crisp, punchy names. A cool, tough pen name! Your mileage will vary on whether you agree, but that was the thinking. I've been asked to set this up by The Powers That Be, and I'm more than happy to, although I can't really say much about myself seeing as Nick Cutter doesn't exactly exist-he's a pen name. 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…and perhaps to encounter an evil blacker than anything one could possibly imagine. In order to study this phenomenon, a special research lab, the Trieste, has been built eight miles under the sea’s surface. It may just be the key to a universal 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. Then their bodies forget how to function involuntarily…and there is no cure. 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. From the acclaimed author of The Troop-which Stephen King raved “scared the hell out of me and I couldn’t put it down.…old-school horror at its best”-comes this utterly terrifying novel where The Abyss meets The Shining.Ī strange plague called the ’Gets is decimating humanity on a global scale.

The Deep by Nick Cutter