The Troop is a 2014 horror novel written by Canadian author Craig Davidson under the pen name Nick Cutter. The novel was released in English in hardback, e-book, and audiobook on February 25, 2014 through Gallery Books. The following year, it won the inaugural James Herbert Award for Horror Writing. The novel follows a troop of Boy Scouts who must deal with not only the threats posed by killer tapeworms, but also the homicidal and sociopathic tendencies of one of their own.
This is the first horror book I have read that has made me feel unsettled. It is so disturbing! Despite (or because of?) this, I could not put the book down. It is well written and the story telling is fantastic.
