5/12/2023 0 Comments The deep nick cutter book![]() ![]() While I believe Stephen King is absolutely right to acknowledge the importance of old-school scares and blood-soaked pages in The Troop, for me it’s the confident sense of character, eidetic language and kinetic writing style that makes this a truly compelling winner. The first winner of a new prize can set expectations for years to come. The James Herbert award for horror writing, or the Herbert as it’ll probably be known, was launched in April 2014 with the aim of discovering and championing a new generation of horror authors and celebrating the life and career of one of its most loved writers. ![]() It’s a book horror fans will love, and one I believe James Herbert would have celebrated.Īs Kerry Herbert, James’s daughter and one of our judges, put it: “Human evil meets an insatiable force of nature to wreak havoc on kids, a scout troop, no less? My father would have chuckled in his chair.” I only ever met James Herbert briefly myself, but as a long-standing fan of his writing, that’s an image to relish. ![]() It was the unpredictable but tightly-plotted suspense, combined with credible characterisation and, yes, moments of full-on bloody horror, that made The Troop a clear winner for our panel of judges this year. ![]()
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