Craig Davidson is a Canadian writer of literary fiction, short stories, memoir, and horror. He publishes his horror novels as Nick Cutter, a pseudonym confirmed on his official website. His work moves between realist and speculative modes while remaining attentive to character, physical vulnerability, and the pressures of place.
Under his own name, Davidson wrote the story collection Rust and Bone, which inspired Jacques Audiard’s film of the same name, as well as the novel Cataract City, the memoir Precious Cargo, the novel The Saturday Night Ghost Club, and the collection Cascade. His story “Medium Tough” was selected for The Best American Short Stories 2014.
As Nick Cutter, Davidson has become associated with contemporary horror through novels including The Troop, The Deep, Little Heaven, The Handyman Method, and The Queen. The catalog title The Dorians continues this strand of his work: it concerns an experimental treatment intended to reverse aging on a remote Canadian island. The Troop won the inaugural James Herbert Award for Horror Writing in 2015. Davidson’s literary-fiction honours also include finalist placements for Cataract City at the 2013 Scotiabank Giller Prize and for The Saturday Night Ghost Club at the 2018 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize.
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