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Mark Morris

Hardcover with sprayed edges. A new chiller from multi award winning author of over 50 novels, winner of the New York Festival Radio Award for Best Drama Special and Festival Radio Awards.In 2004 a group of six students, who have newly arrived at university and quickly become friends, are beset by supernatural forces, which seem to centre around a 5th floor room in an otherwise innocuous student hall of residence. So insidious and terrifying is their ordeal that on...

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Mark Morris

Welcome to the Horror Club: a world of werewolves and poltergeists, psychopaths and shape changers, the unquiet and the living dead...A fantasy world, of course, for Richard, Robin, and Nigel, the club's members are ordinary boys from ordinary families, who just happen to share a taste for the macabre in films and videos, books, and comics. And then they admit a fourth member to their club — Toady, a far-from-ordinary boy with a taste for the macabre in real life. From the moment h...

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Mark Morris

Mark Morris describes himself as one of the UK's most stubborn horror writers. His first novel Toady was published thirty years ago during the genre's last great boom period. Back then publishers were falling over themselves to find and publish as many exciting new horror writers as they could. It was an exciting time—but eventually over-saturation of the market became horror's downfall. Faced with too much choice, the horror-reading public became more selective, and the majority of horror...

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Mark Morris

David Fox, fast approaching his fortieth birthday, is in the throes of a mid-life crisis—going nowhere, no purpose in life... Until one day, whilst walking on the beach, he comes across a message in a bottle, washed up at his feet.The message, written in 1953, is from a boy called John Marshall who claims his father is trying to kill him. David feels compelled to find out what happened to the boy all those years ago—and so he sets off to discover the truth. But the truth is more bi...

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Stephen Volk, Mark Morris, Tim Lebbon, Stephen R. Bissette, Christopher Golden

"I think it's true to say," says horror wunderkind Stephen Volk, "that many of us horror writers of a certain generation have treasured memories of Hammer Films, Amicus Productions and their ilk. In fact, their output of genre classics is so important that some of us have secretly longed for a way to relive and recapture the excitement we had when we first experienced them."That was my exact impulse when I first talked to Mark Morris about a book proposal entitled The Blythewood Ho...

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Caolán Mac an Aircinn, Alan Baxter, A.K. Benedict, Clay McLeod Chapman, Kay Chronister, Ryan Cole, Craig DiLouie, Tracy Fahey, Jeffrey Ford, Philip Fracassi, Rob Francis, Christopher Golden, Rebecca Harrison, C.J. Leede, Chad Lutzke, Gary McMahon, Tanya Pell, Priya Sharma, Lucy A. Snyder, Tim Waggoner, Kaaron Warren

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The Flame Tree Book of Horror

A powerful sixth book in the horror anthology series which Booklist called "Highly recommended for longstanding horror fans and those readers who may not think horror is for them. There is something for everyone in this one."Fever Dreams is the sixth volume in the non-themed horror series of original stories, showcasing the very best short fiction that the genre has to offer, and edited by Mark Morris. This new anthology contains 20 original horro...

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Mark Morris

What will you do? How far will you go? What will you become?Welcome to Banoi, a tropical island where you can leave the stresses of the world behind...Welcome to the Royal Palms Resort - which offers its guests from around the world the ultimate in luxury and relaxation...Welcome to the holiday paradise where your dreams should come true...but where a nightmare is about to begin....Because a mysterious epidemic has suddenly, and without warning, bro...

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Mark Morris

“The uglimen are coming. Watch your back. They killed your dad. They’ll kill you too if they can.”Rob Loomis has everything he could wish for: a beautiful girlfriend, a job he loves, a nice flat in London. Life is sweet—until the day that his mother rings him at work to tell him that his quiet, thoughtful and apparently contented father has hung himself from the banister of their family home. Before long, Rob finds that it is not only his own and his mother's grief...

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Mark Morri

Sydney, 1998. Personal trainer Brett Boyd arrives home to find a package waiting in the driveway. It’s addressed to his girlfriend, model and part-time escort Simone Farrow. Hours later, Boyd is in hospital, fighting for his life. The parcel was a bomb that had exploded in his face, leaving him badly disfigured and lucky to be alive. Who was behind such a violent and calculated attack? What did they want? And why was the parcel addressed to his girlfriend?Suspicion immediately falls...

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Mark Morris

A new chiller from multi award winning author of over 50 novels, winner of the New York Festival Radio Award for Best Drama Special and Festival Radio Awards.That Which Stands Outside is a horror novel inspired by Nordic folklore. After Todd Kingston rescues Yrsa Helgerson from muggers one rainy London night, their resulting friendship quickly develops into a romance. When Yrsa’s mother dies, Todd accompanies her back to her childhood home, an isolated Nor...

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Mark Morris

'Your children will die. Your community will die. To give me back my life.'The small rural community of Shettle has fallen into a decline. It is rife with crime and its inhabitants plagued by ill-fortune. When the Circus of Nights arrives the people are drawn to it like moths to a flame: it's as though they are bewitched.Only four men realise that there is something terribly wrong. And as the town is enclosed in a barrier of 'sickness' through which no one can ente...

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Heidi Marks Morris

Half of all new teachers quit. This book is your lifeline.You survived student teaching. You landed the job. And now you're staring down a classroom full of teenagers, wondering how on earth you're supposed to connect with them, teach your subject, manage the chaos, and still feel like yourself at the end of the day. The education courses prepared you in theory. But nobody told you what to actually do on Day One, or Day Two, or the hundred days after that.Teaching Matters i...