Tom Hunter, chair of judges, explains why Nick Cutter’s book The Troop would have had the prize’s founding inspiration ‘chuckling in his chair’
It’s been described as “old-school horror at its best” by no less than Stephen King. Now The Troop by Nick Cutter, a novel which centres on a group of boy scouts camping on a barren island in the Canadian wilderness, has won the inaugural James Herbert award for horror writing.
This being a prize for horror, I don’t think it’s much of a spoiler to reveal that for the boys on this particular trip, the Scout philosophy of Be Prepared falls horribly short. They are on the island to learn camping, hiking and bush skills. But after an emaciated man crashes into their camp begging for food, remaining alive becomes the main challenge. The horror they must face is: just what is it inside the man that he needs to feed?
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This being a prize for horror, I don’t think it’s much of a spoiler to reveal that for the boys on this particular trip, the Scout philosophy of Be Prepared falls horribly short. They are on the island to learn camping, hiking and bush skills. But after an emaciated man crashes into their camp begging for food, remaining alive becomes the main challenge. The horror they must face is: just what is it inside the man that he needs to feed?
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