About this book

Autumn term at Maybury University and, as the nights draw in, so does an atmosphere of menace. Dan Latcher — a previously quiet and withdrawn student — blossoms overnight into the forceful illusion-working leader of a charismatic student movement, ‘The Crack’; an organization with the power to shape and alter its followers’ personalities, pushing them on to mindless heights of pleasure and pain. When hitherto bright, vivacious fresher Stephanie Peele becomes one of his converts, her worried room-mate Annie enlists the support of fellow student Ian. While the campus is further beset by an unknown knife-wielding psychopath, Annie and Ian pit their strength against the forces of evil as personified by Latcher and his infinitely more potent puppet master, Peregrine Stitch, voraciously sucking-in new converts body and soul…

Publication Details

Publisher
Dell
Published
1992
ISBN
9780440212591

About Unknown Author

Mark Morris became a full-time writer in 1988 on the Enterprise Allowance Scheme, and a year later saw the release of his first novel, Toady. He has since published a further thirteen novels, among which are Stitch, The Immaculate, The Secret of Anatomy, Mr. Bad Face, Fiddleback and Nowhere Near an Angel. His short stories, novellas, articles and reviews have appeared in a wide variety of anthologies and magazines, and he is editor of the highly-acclaimed Cinema Macabre, a book of fifty horror movie essays by genre luminaries, for which he won a British Fantasy Award in 2007. His latest novels are Doctor Who – Forever Autumn, which was voted “Best Doctor Who Book of 2007” by readers of Doctor Who Magazine, and The Deluge, published by Leisure Books in the USA. Forthcoming work includes a novella entitled It Sustains, a “Hellboy” novel entitled The All-Seeing Eye and another book in the immensely popular “Doctor Who” range, Ghosts of India.

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