http://www.markmorrisfiction.com/novella daily 0.75 2017-05-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558ec3e0e4b01327377556ab/1494326566695-1IC7YHHHM219RR60HSX7/albion+fay+snowbooks.jpg Novellas - ALBION FAY (Snowbooks edition) This new edition of my British Fantasy Award nominated novella ALBION FAY (blurb below) is available here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Albion-Fay-Snowbooks-Horror-Novellas/dp/1911390988/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1494326647&sr=1-1&keywords=albion+fay https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558ec3e0e4b01327377556ab/1494326566695-1IC7YHHHM219RR60HSX7/albion+fay+snowbooks.jpg Novellas - ALBION FAY (Snowbooks edition) This new edition of my British Fantasy Award nominated novella ALBION FAY (blurb below) is available here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Albion-Fay-Snowbooks-Horror-Novellas/dp/1911390988/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1494326647&sr=1-1&keywords=albion+fay https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558ec3e0e4b01327377556ab/1442076869817-HCMT0A5YNMOT5244F91J/albion+fay+cover.jpg Novellas - Albion Fay "I know exactly when this photo was taken: July 1975. And I know where it was taken: on the sloping lawn beneath Albion Fay. The boy in the photograph is me. The girl is my sister, Angie. This is the morning of the day when web went into the caves for the first time. It is the day when our lives changed forever." Albion Fay, a holiday house in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by nature's bounty. For the adults, a time for relaxation and to recharge the batteries, while for the children, a chance for exploration and adventure in the English countryside. A happy time for all; nothing could possibly go wrong. Or could it? What should be a magical time ends in tragedy - but what really happened that summer? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558ec3e0e4b01327377556ab/1435587123925-TM0IKIM8S3UG66VP1KOC/covers21.jpg Novellas - It Sustains When Adam was 15, a terrible thing happened. So terrible that he and his father ran away in an attempt to put it behind them. But the past is not so easy to shake off. And a new start does not necessarily mean a better start. Who is the figure at the top of the stairs? Whose is the face in the mirror? what is the thing in the pond? And why does Adam often feel he is being followed, only for his pursuers to dissolve into shadow when he turns to confront them? "Mark Morris writes from the heart and strikes you to the depths of your soul. This nightmarish coming-of-age story once again proves he is one of the best horror writers out there" - Stephen Volk "A remarkable study of grief, first love, and what it's like to be a child when everything around you is new and exciting and dangerous. Mark Morris's skill is he can flip you between shocks and scares, and break your heart in the process" - Robert Shearman https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558ec3e0e4b01327377556ab/1435587116245-IGYYW5V74843W40RE51O/covers19.jpg Novellas - Stumps Bridget and Colin move to the country to start afresh. But Bridget notices some mysterious stumps in the garden of their new house. What are they? And more importantly, why do they have such a strange influence over Colin? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558ec3e0e4b01327377556ab/1435587111877-IZ389X9PGQQM32SWLN1G/covers18.jpg Novellas - The Dogs Alice arrives to live at her aunt's house as a frightened young orphan. She leaves years later - alone and far more frightened. when things you love disappear, it's unbearable. 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With a whoop, he flung it down. It struck with a thick squelching crunch, and the screaming stopped…” HORN OF THE HUNTER by Simon Bestwick https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558ec3e0e4b01327377556ab/1442396590894-KXKALZBLX9FF60FQ2PRT/spectral+horror+2_design.jpg As Editor - The 2nd spectral book of horror stories 19 TWISTED NEW NIGHTMARES, OOZING WITH THE SAP OF FEAR, COME BLINKING AND SQUEALING INTO THE WAKING WORLD! “One of Ghedi’s friends had been hit by a dropped stanchion on an earlier raid, bursting his head open so that his brains had spattered out and ended up looking like worms on the deck, pink and crawling…” LITTLE TRAVELLER by Simon Kurt Unsworth “It was reaching out toward the glass door, toward Buck, with a hand or a paw that seemed to be tipped with thick, black claws like the talons of an eagle…” WHERE THE FOREST ENDS by Sean Logan “One of the big horses bounded in, a black silhouette against the pale sky, the rider rearing on its back, lugged spear held aloft. With a whoop, he flung it down. It struck with a thick squelching crunch, and the screaming stopped…” HORN OF THE HUNTER by Simon Bestwick https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558ec3e0e4b01327377556ab/1435586158023-PV5BERWTGMNMBHANPUFP/covers31.jpg As Editor - The Spectral Book of Horror Stories 19 brand new tales to chill your blood and haunt your dreams! “The figure crouched over his mother was… taking something from her, sliding some spidery thing that struggled and screamed soundlessly out of her side and into his leathery dark bag…” THE NIGHT DOCTOR by Steve Rasnic Tem “I saw her skin turn black and erupt in blisters and pustules as in one last mute appeal she stretched her hand towards me over the flames…” THE BOOK AND THE RING by Reggie Oliver “There wasn’t much of a struggle even when Tomas lashed him, limb by limb, to the stakes, although he had plenty to say to Tomas’s back as he walked away. It was when Tomas reappeared, leading the shaggy, horned thing from the barn, that Mr Sunshine really started to squeal…” CURES FOR A SICKENED WORLD by Brian Hodge https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558ec3e0e4b01327377556ab/1435586169317-VVS6NKEXCS14OCCO3AWB/covers30.jpg As Editor - Cinema Futura This time featuring a line-up of sixty genre luminaries, Cinema Futura is even bigger than its predecessor. And what a stellar line-up it is! We have the inimitable Joe Lansdale extolling the virtues of Invaders of Mars, top crime writer John Connolly waxing lyrical about The 7th Voyage of Sinbad, and author of The Prestige, Christopher Priest telling us why he loves La Jetée. With further contributions from such top genre names as Lucius Shepard, David J. Schow, Alastair Reynolds, Stephen Volk, Sarah Pinborough, Robert Shearman, Peter F. Hamilton, Steven Erikson and many more, Cinema Futura is set to become an essential addition to the bookshelves of every movie buff and science-fiction fan worldwide. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558ec3e0e4b01327377556ab/1435586144780-N6L66ORO2DX80FHZEEKZ/covers29.jpg As Editor - Cinema Macabre Horror movies are big business. Ever since the first flickering images started appearing on that magical silver screen, people have enjoyed being scared. What is it that compels us to seek the kinds of experiences we wouldn't dream of wishing for in real life? Is it the visceral thrill, the physical kick to our system that we crave? Or are the reasons more deep-rooted? Are horror movies like waking dreams, sluicing out the clutter of our unconscious minds, purging our anxieties and fears by confronting us with them in a safe environment? Travel back along the memory-paths of any current practitioner of strange fiction, of any professional creator of bizarre imagery - be they artist, writer, movie-maker, perhaps a combination of two, or even all three - and you will find, embedded in those paths, glinting like gold, seminal moments from countless horror movies, nightmare images that shaped that particular individual's mind, influenced his or her life in positive, creative ways. In Cinema Macabre the editor, Mark Morris, asked fifty genre practitioners to elect their favourite horror movie and to wax lyrical about it. The choices are eclectic, enlightening, occasionally startling. Come with us as we delve into some of the most fertile, imaginative minds working in the genre today, as we examine what frightens those who in turn frighten us. Contributors include Neil Gaiman, China Mieville, Simon Pegg, Michael Marshall Smith, Brian Aldiss, Christopher Fowler, Kim Newman, Thomas Tessier, Tim Lebbon, Mark Chadbourn and Ramsey Campbell. http://www.markmorrisfiction.com/news-1 daily 0.75 2019-01-15 http://www.markmorrisfiction.com/news-1/2019/1/15/my-reading-year-2018 monthly 0.5 2019-01-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558ec3e0e4b01327377556ab/1547571460125-N1J7XG2A2OS5RV2B8VS2/Books+Read+2018.jpg Blog - MY READING YEAR 2018 BOOKS READ 2018 http://www.markmorrisfiction.com/news-1/2017/12/31/my-reading-year monthly 0.5 2017-12-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558ec3e0e4b01327377556ab/1514731236536-NXYWRCCGEVG3UJ0CYXLW/reading+year+2017.jpg Blog - MY READING YEAR http://www.markmorrisfiction.com/news-1/2017/11/17/monsters monthly 0.5 2017-11-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558ec3e0e4b01327377556ab/1510919672964-6Q157CUWYGU8J3IOHXIG/chaney+wolfman.jpg Blog - MONSTERS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558ec3e0e4b01327377556ab/1510920223869-ECRJYX6A5X4NOS9XSW8O/monster3.jpg Blog - MONSTERS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558ec3e0e4b01327377556ab/1510920506612-QL7H87XE5KFL2345FO2H/monster4.jpg Blog - MONSTERS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558ec3e0e4b01327377556ab/1510920401465-H82RNWRVKPKBZ6KHND0C/monster2.jpg Blog - MONSTERS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558ec3e0e4b01327377556ab/1510920697219-9RU3M5LNXU2Y39CC5BUR/monster5.jpg Blog - MONSTERS http://www.markmorrisfiction.com/news-1/2017/10/24/new-fears-and-the-limitless-parameters-of-horror monthly 0.5 2017-10-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558ec3e0e4b01327377556ab/1508843159716-062SNAFZ7GACQCZR6CHV/blogpic5.jpg Blog - NEW FEARS and the limitless parameters of horror https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558ec3e0e4b01327377556ab/1508843369401-W1IVK82WEF55UHDMWZYD/new+fears+cover.jpg Blog - NEW FEARS and the limitless parameters of horror https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558ec3e0e4b01327377556ab/1508842713178-2BWTGYFZSWVPIEEXFCUB/blogpic2.jpg Blog - NEW FEARS and the limitless parameters of horror https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558ec3e0e4b01327377556ab/1508842022284-X36R7N4B37IAMX53UUPE/blogpic1.jpg Blog - NEW FEARS and the limitless parameters of horror https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558ec3e0e4b01327377556ab/1508843066405-N0XR4KEAPBGMFWDH23ZM/blogpic4.jpg Blog - NEW FEARS and the limitless parameters of horror https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558ec3e0e4b01327377556ab/1508842923431-8HOWASF89FKVOQ38RVVY/blogpic3.jpg Blog - NEW FEARS and the limitless parameters of horror http://www.markmorrisfiction.com/news-1/2017/5/8/im-back monthly 0.5 2017-05-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558ec3e0e4b01327377556ab/1494258058390-K851057AQ34W5F7G4SNJ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - I'm Back! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558ec3e0e4b01327377556ab/1494257942307-DQ4LLRQN49ISHME6JUNB/image-asset.jpeg Blog - I'm Back! http://www.markmorrisfiction.com/news-1/2015/10/17/its-out monthly 0.5 2015-10-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558ec3e0e4b01327377556ab/1445080267413-DXYAW6QHGXBGFAI882XN/image-asset.jpeg Blog - IT'S OUT! http://www.markmorrisfiction.com/news-1/2015/9/2/first-post-1 monthly 0.5 2015-09-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558ec3e0e4b01327377556ab/1442075856630-3HL4UZKUUTDRTH5CYQRC/image-asset.jpeg Blog - New book! http://www.markmorrisfiction.com/novels-1 daily 0.75 2017-05-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558ec3e0e4b01327377556ab/1494261845454-YBZPJI699D0QXVAKWA9U/wraiths+final.jpg Novels - THE WRAITHS OF WAR Alex Locke is desperately trying to hold on to the disparate threads of the complex web of time he has created. He travels to the First World War, living through the horrors of trench warfare in order to befriend a young soldier crucial to his story; then to the 1930s to uncover the secrets of a mysterious stage magician. He moves back and forth in time, always with the strange and terrifying Dark Man on his heels, gradually getting closer to uncovering the true nature of his destiny with the obsidian heart.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558ec3e0e4b01327377556ab/1494261845454-YBZPJI699D0QXVAKWA9U/wraiths+final.jpg Novels - THE WRAITHS OF WAR Alex Locke is desperately trying to hold on to the disparate threads of the complex web of time he has created. He travels to the First World War, living through the horrors of trench warfare in order to befriend a young soldier crucial to his story; then to the 1930s to uncover the secrets of a mysterious stage magician. He moves back and forth in time, always with the strange and terrifying Dark Man on his heels, gradually getting closer to uncovering the true nature of his destiny with the obsidian heart.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558ec3e0e4b01327377556ab/1442076446559-AWMC84CIS40KNNLAT7YD/society+of+blood+cover.jpg Novels - The Society of Blood Alex Locke is still searching for his missing young daughter. Transported through time to the dank streets of Victorian London, his only hope of finding her lies with the obsidian heart, the enigmatic object to which his fate seems inextricably linked. Desperately seeking the heart, which has been taken from him, Alex follows the trail of a gruesome murderer that will lead him through the opium dens of Limehouse into the dark and twisted world of the Society of Blood, and ever closer to unlocking the secrets of the heart - and finding his daughter. Order https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558ec3e0e4b01327377556ab/1435587682774-285K977A4NDYI35C1KQP/covers28.jpg Novels - The Wolves of London Alex Locke is a reformed ex-convict, forced back into London’s criminal underworld for one more job. He agrees to steal a priceless artefact – a human heart carved from blackest obsidian – from the home of a decrepit old man. But when the burglary goes horribly wrong, Alex is plunged into the nightmarish world of the Wolves of London, a band of unearthly assassins who will stop at nothing to reclaim the heart. As he races to unlock the secrets of the mysterious object, Alex must learn to wield its dark power – or be destroyed by it. “A new novel from Morris is always cause for celebration, and this first in a brand new trilogy ushers in his greatest, most complex and compelling work yet” – Tim Lebbon “In The Wolves of London, Mark Morris not only crosses genre boundaries, but creates an entirely new territory in the landscape of dark fiction. Part crime novel, part fantasy, part science fiction – entirely engrossing” – Sarah Pinborough https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558ec3e0e4b01327377556ab/1435587683794-BGWR43EBG4QX2D8XN9IV/covers27.jpg Novels - The Black Kate Nolan is a successful magazine editor with a loving husband, James, and a five year old son, Max. Her life couldn’t be more perfect—but one day she receives a phone call from James, which changes everything. Clearly distressed, James tells Kate to meet him at midnight outside the beach café once owned by her long-dead grandmother in the seaside town of Seahaven, where they both grew up. A strange request, made even more sinister by the fact that in recent weeks Seahaven has become prey to a serial killer who is targeting the local children. Kate keeps the midnight appointment, but instead of finding her husband and son, she finds herself drawn into an ever-tightening web of past misdeeds and long-buried secrets. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558ec3e0e4b01327377556ab/1435586964041-QOPRARCL4J4QMJ9L21RE/covers12.jpg Novels - The Deluge It came from nowhere. The only warning was the endless rumbling of a growing earthquake. Then the water came—crashing, rushing water, covering everything. Destroying everything. When it stopped, all that was left was the gentle lapping of waves against the few remaining buildings rising above the surface of the sea. Will the isolated survivors be able to rebuild their lives, their civilization, when nearly all they knew has been wiped out? It seems hopeless. But what lurks beneath the swirling water, waiting to emerge, is far worse. When the floodwaters finally recede, the true horror will be revealed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558ec3e0e4b01327377556ab/1435586958440-V8VLMO0A4IMJH78QAE3G/covers10.jpg Novels - Nowhere Near an Angel During the long, hot summer of 1976 sixteen year-old Rob Swann decides to kill himself. Then, on a tinny transistor radio, he hears the Sex Pistols for the first time and it changes everything. Over a quarter of a century later, Rob is a man with a colourful past. Ex-punk, drug addict, gangster and jailbird, he has finally put his troubled life behind him and is enjoying a settled, law-abiding, carefree existence. Then one day he meets and befriends the enigmatic Suzi - at which point everything begins to unravel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558ec3e0e4b01327377556ab/1435586963971-SN8OEF460SJKQU1EVE4I/covers11.jpg Novels - The Uglimen 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 that he has to cope with. A mysterious, hissing voice on the phone informs him that his father was murdered and that his murderers - the uglimen - are targeting Rob as their next victim. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558ec3e0e4b01327377556ab/1435586963799-7S74YGRIQ6V4HM4EEZU7/covers8.jpg Novels - Fiddleback When Ruth Gemmill's younger brother Alex fails to return her calls, she sets off to check up on him. Unable to find him in Greenwell, the town where he has been living and teaching, she begins her tentative enquiries. She soon discovers the locals to be frustratingly unhelpful, while the eerie town holds more questions than clues. Why are the police so uncooperative? Why is Greenwell so dark and lonely? And who is the 'grey man' the schoolchildren saw Alex with not long before he went missing? “Eerie, assured and utterly compelling, this is a novel you will not forget” – Michael Marshall Smith “Nightmarish… Morris writes superbly about a small town’s gathering of menacing forces” – Time Out https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558ec3e0e4b01327377556ab/1435586952587-9CJPY3CBMTVPD61FTGJQ/covers9.jpg Novels - Genesis It’s breaking through… In a nightclub rest room a man mumbles these words and then puts a shotgun in his mouth and pulls the trigger. The only witness, music journalist Nick Finch, watches in horror as he crumples to the ground beside the similarly slain bodies of a woman and a little girl. Nick exits the room fast, but when someone goes in to check out his story the bodies are no longer there. Then things get really strange. Unspeakable nightmares. Hallucinations. Mysterious figures shadowing him. Is Nick losing his mind? Or is someone – or something – planting ideas in his head? And why does that word – GENESIS – keep cropping up? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558ec3e0e4b01327377556ab/1435586924970-NNEMYILZ0CFIBOZ6STZU/covers6.jpg Novels - Longbarrow If you run round the church seven times in an anti-clockwise direction, you’ll wake the Seven Sleepers… The sleepy Yorkshire village of Longbarrow looks normal enough. But David Wisher finds a place steeped in the stories and beliefs of the past. Of all the legends that surround Longbarrow, one above all fascinates David: the story of the Seven Sleepers defeated in an ancient battle and trapped throughout the centuries, their evil powers dormant. Redcap, Uther, Vinegar Tom, Gerennius, Shuck, Pyewackett and Cullen. Together they spread terror, pestilence, destruction. And now, because of David’s unwitting actions, they are stirring once more… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558ec3e0e4b01327377556ab/1435420171831-A1DK5T6CK90UX8NUY7NE/covers5.jpg Novels - Mr Bad Face It started as a harmless practical joke. But then the real nightmare begins...John Straker is the neighbourhood bogeyman. Hideously disfigured, he hides himself away from the rest of the world - until the night when a group of children set fire to his house and reduce it - and its owner - to ashes. Mr Bad Face has been well and truly laid to rest. Or so the children think... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558ec3e0e4b01327377556ab/1435420168616-2UPX4GQTM6EWKOHAHC1T/covers4.jpg Novels - The Secret of Anatomy David Fox, fast approaching his fortieth birthday, is in the throes of a mid-life crisis. That is until he finds a message in a bottle whilst walking on the beach. The message, written in 1953, is from a boy called John Marshall who claims his father is trying to kill him. And with a new, invigorating purpose to his life David is compelled to find out what happened all those years ago. “Finely crafted and powerfully written, The Secret of Anatomy is an apocalyptic journey into dark and forbidden territory” – Clive Barker “Morris orchestrates the non-stop occult action with fearsome intensity” – Christopher Fowler, Time Out https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558ec3e0e4b01327377556ab/1435420168924-J13T91ZTK7LQFE8D8MW2/covers3.jpg Novels - The Immaculate Jack Stone writes works of dark and tortured fantasy, which have captured the public imagination. Despite his celebrity status, however, he is a lonely man whose smart London life is a form of exile. He has painful memories he does not wish to examine, roots he refuses to revisit – until he meets Gail, a beautiful, empathic girl who seems to sense the shadows that surround him. When news arrives of a death in his family, Jack is forced to return to the horror that has coloured his nightmares for years: his childhood home. There he finds the terror and humiliation he remembers from his upbringing, but he discovers something else as well – a revelation more startling than he could ever have dreamed up in his wildest flights of fancy… “Easily Mark Morris’s best novel so far… A real contribution to the literature of the ghostly” – Ramsey Campbell https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558ec3e0e4b01327377556ab/1435420161439-E3NV3WQDV5PG62JYRYDP/covers2.jpg Novels - Stitch 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 The Crack – an organization with the power to shape and alter its followers’ personalities, pushing them onto mindless heights of pleasure and pain. When hitherto bright and vivacious Stephanie Peele becomes one of his converts, her worried roommate 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… “A sizzling banquet of the bizarre that simply demands to be read” – Julian Lloyd Webber, Sunday Express “A big, blusteringly red-faced, glowering novel of neo-religious cults, bizarre sex and rarely plumbed levels of almost impenetrable blackness… the essence of true horror” – Peter Crowther, Fear Magazine https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558ec3e0e4b01327377556ab/1435420160765-PHVZHDJ8W7VZ1SXVQG3E/covers1.jpg Novels - Toady 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 movies, books and comics. But then they admit a fourth member to their club – Toady, a far from ordinary boy. From the moment he lures the others into a nerve-jangling séance in a house with a chilling reputation, their lives are blighted by worse horror than they ever could have imagined. Terror stalks the familiar streets of a sleepy seaside town and waits to invade the safest home. The pervasive stain of evil spreads like ripples on a pond, leaving a trail of sacrilege and death in its wake. One by one the members of the Horror Club are forced into a netherworld, halfway between illusion and reality. Eventually it is up to the final member to fight alone against the evil they have unleashed. “A strikingly imaginative mixture of horror and fantasy, with a real sense of supernatural terror and with scenes of horror so strange they border on surrealism” – Ramsey Campbell http://www.markmorrisfiction.com/new-gallery daily 0.75 2017-05-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558ec3e0e4b01327377556ab/1494327845423-84A8Q88MPCMBF7JKIQ1U/wrapped+in+skin.jpg Short story collections - WRAPPED IN SKIN A GLIMPSE BENEATH THE SKIN... A woman haunted by a mysterious upside-down door. A meeting between a famous punk rocker and a voodoo priestess. A group of friends who willingly place themselves in the path of bullets that travel through time... These stories are wrapped in strange skin. Skin suffused with regret and grief and anger. Skin that twitches with bad dreams and appalling memories. Skin that is so thin it is unable to prevent the terrors of the past from breaking through. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558ec3e0e4b01327377556ab/1494327845423-84A8Q88MPCMBF7JKIQ1U/wrapped+in+skin.jpg Short story collections - WRAPPED IN SKIN A GLIMPSE BENEATH THE SKIN... A woman haunted by a mysterious upside-down door. A meeting between a famous punk rocker and a voodoo priestess. A group of friends who willingly place themselves in the path of bullets that travel through time... These stories are wrapped in strange skin. Skin suffused with regret and grief and anger. Skin that twitches with bad dreams and appalling memories. Skin that is so thin it is unable to prevent the terrors of the past from breaking through. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558ec3e0e4b01327377556ab/1435421490352-O983BHBL52XS987JBPCT/covers23.jpg Short story collections - Long Shadows, Nightmare Light From the Foreword by Mark Morris: “Short stories are the lifeblood of the horror genre. I grew up reading the Pan and Fontana books of horror and ghost stories, the Armada books of ghost, monster and SF stories, numerous anthologies edited by the prolific Peter Haining, John Burke’s wonderful Tales of Unease collections, and many more. I still adore unearthing obscure anthologies, particularly if they contain unread stories by favourite authors. And it still gives me a huge kick whenever I sell one of my own stories to an anthology, because by doing so I feel as though, in my own small way, I’m contributing to a rich, proud and long-standing genre tradition. The stories in Long Shadows, Nightmare Light span a period of eighteen years. Most have been published before – in anthologies, magazines and online – though a couple have been written specifically for this collection. One of the things I love about old anthologies is the one-line teaser trailers you often get for some of the stories – so here are mine. Within these pages you’ll encounter: an amnesiac man who finds himself alone in a mysterious town… a world in which seemingly bottomless holes appear in busy city streets… a pair of lost dogs that return after nine years, having not aged a day… the Christmas haunting of a heavily-pregnant woman…” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558ec3e0e4b01327377556ab/1435586527547-QQKRAES2B6S0OUCAWQLK/covers7.jpg Short story collections - Close to the Bone Close to the Bone: eleven carefully-crafted masterpieces, each of which guarantees a shudder and perhaps a sleepless night. The Schizophrenic held prisoner by his own psyche - the man whose aversion to a certain colour leads to violence and death - the gang forced to relive, year after year, a childhood tragedy: these are tales of obsession, of human despair, of a world gone mad. So what makes you afraid? Whatever it is, you'll find it here. Foreword by Ramsey Campbell. http://www.markmorrisfiction.com/nonfiction daily 0.75 2017-05-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558ec3e0e4b01327377556ab/1494330695980-MD279ISADSRYVO2GV3ZV/we+are+the+martians.jpg Nonfiction Article on Beasts by Nigel Kneale in We Are the Martians edited by Neil Snowdon (PS Publishing, 2017) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558ec3e0e4b01327377556ab/1494330695980-MD279ISADSRYVO2GV3ZV/we+are+the+martians.jpg Nonfiction Article on Beasts by Nigel Kneale in We Are the Martians edited by Neil Snowdon (PS Publishing, 2017) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558ec3e0e4b01327377556ab/1494330185277-UFQLH65XHZFKAYABYX40/art+of+the+novel.jpg Nonfiction Article (How Important is Characterisation in Horror Fiction) in The Art of the Novel edited by Nicholas Royle (Salt Publishing, 2015) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558ec3e0e4b01327377556ab/1494330008220-ES0K520I2K5H23NS1TCL/blood+of+angels2.jpg Nonfiction Introduction to The Blood of Angels by Stephen Gregory (Valancourt Books, 2015) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558ec3e0e4b01327377556ab/1442608220299-QJV6LF02UNAV842OGWRA/Non-Fiction13.jpg Nonfiction Introduction to The Moorstone Sickness by Bernard Taylor (Valancourt Books, 2015) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558ec3e0e4b01327377556ab/1442610190357-GBQ1L10AJPHPXML8KTPO/Non-Fiction14.jpg Nonfiction Foreword to Out of the Night Volume 2 (PS Publishing, 2013) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558ec3e0e4b01327377556ab/1442608215092-X4JL5L1VVVLKM2JUXCXI/Non-Fiction12.jpg Nonfiction Afterword to Whitstable by Stephen Volk (Spectral Press, 2013) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558ec3e0e4b01327377556ab/1442608198911-PERKBJ7ZWGLBUXMVCMJJ/Non-Fiction11.jpg Nonfiction Interviewed by James Cooper in In Conversation: A Writer's Perspective (British Fantasy Society, 2009) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558ec3e0e4b01327377556ab/1442608182565-8AE735LVWCOYOYIH8153/Non-Fiction10.jpg Nonfiction Introduction to We Fade To Grey edited by Gary McMahon (Pendragon Press, 2008) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558ec3e0e4b01327377556ab/1442608169225-AP9L40IA1WYAT5RH4CTO/Non-Fiction9.jpg Nonfiction Introduction to World Wide Web and Other Lovecraftian Upgrades by Gary Fry (Humdrumming, 2007) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558ec3e0e4b01327377556ab/1442608160501-WFV9YIKG69528C8B4EVD/Non-Fiction8.jpg Nonfiction Introduction to The First Humdrumming Book of Horror Stories selected by Ian Alexander Martin (Humdrumming, 2007) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558ec3e0e4b01327377556ab/1442608214226-Z9RGNVV45P68W2HGM549/Non-Fiction7.jpg Nonfiction Introduction to The Face of Twilight by Mark Samuels (PS Publishing, 2006) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558ec3e0e4b01327377556ab/1442608152196-8GKKGU9Q4HY3MATSO17E/Non-Fiction6.jpg Nonfiction Introduction to Vessels by Kealan Patrick Burke (Bloodletting Press, 2006) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558ec3e0e4b01327377556ab/1442608152272-PIM2XMVSGJWHXLQGVZ9Q/Non-Fiction5.jpg Nonfiction Article on Christine by Stephen King in Le Livre Des Livres De Stephen King edited by Daniel Conrad and Benoit Domis (Dreampress, 2006) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558ec3e0e4b01327377556ab/1442608143056-U8DZFJO6BZFVWH0DPHZJ/Non-Fiction4.jpg Nonfiction Article on The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham in Horror: Another 100 Best Books edited by Stephen Jones and Kim Newman (Carroll & Graf, 2005) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558ec3e0e4b01327377556ab/1442608134558-1Y80T2IT4TGO15WTBZG3/Non-Fiction3.jpg Nonfiction Introduction to The Overnight by Ramsey Campbell (PS Publishing, 2004) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558ec3e0e4b01327377556ab/1442608139255-90C6RUYHX5IDEWX2KFRJ/Non-Fiction2.jpg Nonfiction Article (The Shadow of Tomorrow) in Dancing With the Dark edited by Stephen Jones (Vista, 1997) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558ec3e0e4b01327377556ab/1442608116876-XBRU0IGOUS4P4YDFNZLY/Non-Fiction1.jpg Nonfiction Article in The Tiger Garden: A Book of Writers' Dreams edited by Nicholas Royle (Serpent's Tail, 1996) http://www.markmorrisfiction.com/tie-in-work daily 0.75 2017-09-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558ec3e0e4b01327377556ab/1494327573253-V8DZMV1U5VP1MRH3TW8B/the_great_wall_novel.jpg Tie-In work - THE GREAT WALL 1700 years to build. 5500 miles long. What were they trying to keep out? When a mercenary warrior is imprisoned within the Great Wall, he discovers the mystery behind one of the greatest wonders of our world. As wave after wave of marauding beasts besiege the massive structure, his quest for fortune turns into a journey toward heroism as he joins a huge army of elite warriors to confront this unimaginable and seemingly unstoppable force. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558ec3e0e4b01327377556ab/1494327573253-V8DZMV1U5VP1MRH3TW8B/the_great_wall_novel.jpg Tie-In work - THE GREAT WALL 1700 years to build. 5500 miles long. What were they trying to keep out? When a mercenary warrior is imprisoned within the Great Wall, he discovers the mystery behind one of the greatest wonders of our world. As wave after wave of marauding beasts besiege the massive structure, his quest for fortune turns into a journey toward heroism as he joins a huge army of elite warriors to confront this unimaginable and seemingly unstoppable force. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558ec3e0e4b01327377556ab/1435586647059-9TD0MUBJHNBT0WYCFWX0/covers25.jpg Tie-In work - Zombie Apocalypse! Horror Hospital Inside this hospital… the prognosis is terminal! For Staff Nurse Cat Harris the night shift at her hospital in south London starts off like any other. But she isn’t expecting the four girls who were attacked by a crazed stranger in a nightclub… the trio of local gang members involved in a shooting incident… or the spread of an unknown virus that starts bringing the recently dead back to a horrible semblance of life. Soon heavily armed troops have the hospital in lockdown, and as the disease rapidly spreads through staff, patients and members of the public, a small group of survivors battle to stay alive against an ever-increasing army of the flesh-eating “infected”. Set during the dawning hours of the outbreak, ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE! HORROR HOSPITAL expands the story begun in ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE! and ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE! FIGHTBACK, both edited by Stephen Jones. Here we discover more about the reanimation virus as it expands out from All Hallows Church, the secret of the swarms of insects, what horrors haunt the Medical Museum, and how, behind it all, emerges the sinister figure of Thomas Moreby himself… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558ec3e0e4b01327377556ab/1494327177142-M76MZGAZLCW37OSHQ118/great+wall.jpg Tie-In work - THE GREAT WALL 1700 years to build. 5500 miles long. What were they trying to keep out? When a mercenary warrior (Matt Damon) is imprisoned within the Great Wall, he discovers the mystery behind one of the greatest wonders of our world. As wave after wave of marauding beasts besiege the massive structure, his quest for fortune turns into a journey toward heroism as he joins a huge army of elite warriors to confront this unimaginable and seemingly unstoppable force.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558ec3e0e4b01327377556ab/1435586646259-TNZ7ISQX2ADJNBT9RQBB/covers26.jpg Tie-In work - Noah One man’s quest to save mankind. When he has a vision about a flood sent to destroy all life on earth, Noah knows what he must do. Together with his family, he must save two of every living animal. He must build an ark. Noah has to evade the many dangers that would see him fail and leave the world to ruin, and overcome his own struggles to fulfill his mission. This is the epic story of one man’s attempt to preserve life for a new world. The official novelization of the movie NOAH, written and directed by Darren Aronofsky, and starring Russell Crowe, Ray Winstone, Anthony Hopkins, Emma Watson and Jennifer Connolly. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558ec3e0e4b01327377556ab/1442396348292-DP7KYSXJTTQDSN4RA8YY/image-asset.jpeg Tie-In work - Vampire circus "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 enter or leave, they must do their utmost to protect their loved ones. Before it is too late… An updated 'reimagining' of the 1971 Hammer movie VAMPIRE CIRCUS, directed by Robert Young and starring Adrienne Corri, Thorley Walters, Anthony Corlan, Laurence Payne, Lynn Frederick, Robert Tayman and Lalla Ward. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558ec3e0e4b01327377556ab/1435586636988-2GTROB92MF3QLFO846ZF/covers24.jpg Tie-In work - Spartacus - Morituri Spartacus is the hit TV series which has captivated viewers with its blood-soaked action, exotic sexuality, villainy and heroism. This original novel from the world of Spartacus: Blood and Sand relates a thrilling new tale of blood, sex and politics set in the brutal world of the arena. Spartacus and his fellow gladiators endure bout after bout of fierce and bloody fighting, while their opponent’s numbers never seem to shrink. Can Batiatus’s ludus survive against such odds? An epic battle ensues against a vicious enemy, determined to soak the arena in the blood of his rivals. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558ec3e0e4b01327377556ab/1435586611971-SE1R2S96TJMYHTHQHXR9/covers22.jpg Tie-In work - Dead Island 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, broken out across the island. The local islanders, hotel guests and workers alike are struck down - only to rise again, craving the flesh and the blood of the still living. For four of the holidaymakers and a handful of others scattered around Banoi who are seemingly unaffected by the plague, they must face the awful, terrifying reality of a zombie apocalypse. Now there is only one thing left to do: survive. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558ec3e0e4b01327377556ab/1435586576312-PSQQ9K6KZ1POL02X28L0/covers20.jpg Tie-In work - Hellboy - The All-Seeing Eye In a London funeral parlour the dead rise and walk again. On a train in the London Underground a young couple is terrorized by a demon. In the suburbs a poltergeist forces a family to flee their home. Hellboy has his hands full. While the supernatural is on a rampage in London, a series of brutal "Torso Murders" turns up at various sites around the city. All of the corpses are headless, limbless, and drained of their blood. Called in to investigate the killings, B.P.R.D. agents Abe Sapien and Liz Sherman discover a wellspring of black magic under the London streets. They also find a sack of heads. Hellboy descends into the dark underworld of London, encountering demons who prophesy the coming of plague and the opening of an eye to the otherworld, bringing forth death and destruction upon the land. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558ec3e0e4b01327377556ab/1435421004803-30D31F922H60ZWI9M0YW/covers17.jpg Tie-In work - Torchwood - Bay of the Dead When the city sleeps, the dead start to walk… Something has sealed off Cardiff, and living corpses are stalking the streets, leaving a trail of half-eaten bodies. Animals are butchered. A young couple in their car never reach their home. A stolen boat is brought back to shore, carrying only human remains. And a couple of girls heading back from the pub watch the mysterious drivers of a big black SUV take over a crime scene. Torchwood have to deal with the intangible barrier surrounding Cardiff, and some unidentified space debris that seems to be regenerating itself. Plus, of course, the all-night zombie horror show! Not that they really believe in zombies. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558ec3e0e4b01327377556ab/1442610671337-UHEWYG8NFD9LIHWAU9ET/tales.jpg Tie-In work - Doctor Who - Tales of Trenzalore As it had been foretold, the armies of the Universe gathered at Trenzalore. Only one thing stood between the planet and destruction – the Doctor. For nine hundred years he defended the planet and the tiny town of Christmas against the forces that would destroy it. Some of what happened during those terrible years is well documented. But most of it has remained shrouded in mystery and darkness. Until now. This is a glimpse of just some of the terrors the people faced, the monstrous threats the Doctor defeated. These are the tales of the monsters who found themselves afraid - and of the one man who was not. Tales of Trenzalore collects four of the Doctor’s adventures from different periods during the Siege of Trenzalore and the ensuing battle: Let it Snow by Justin Richards An Apple a Day by George Mann Strangers in the Outland by Paul Finch The Dreaming by Mark Morris https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558ec3e0e4b01327377556ab/1435421005238-WNOTUUWGT2FNA8Q145RQ/covers16.jpg Tie-In work - Doctor Who - Ghosts of India India in 1947 is a country in the grip of chaos - a country torn apart by internal strife. When the Doctor and Donna arrive in Calcutta, they are instantly swept up in violent events. Barely escaping with their lives, they discover that the city is rife with tales of 'half-made men', who roam the streets at night and steal people away. These creatures, it is said, are as white as salt and have only shadows where their eyes should be. With help from India’s great spiritual leader, Mohandas ‘Mahatma’ Gandhi, the Doctor and Donna set out to investigate these rumours. What is the real truth behind the ‘half-made men’? Why is Gandhi’s role in history under threat? And has an ancient, all-powerful god of destruction really come back to wreak his vengeance upon the Earth? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558ec3e0e4b01327377556ab/1435420994796-1KCDCV13JRSDZ8TYNC6C/covers15.jpg Tie-In work - Doctor Who - Forever Autumn It is almost Halloween in the sleepy New England town of Blackwood Falls. Autumn leaves litter lawns and sidewalks, paper skeletons hang in windows, and carved pumpkins leer from stoops and front porches. The Doctor and Martha soon discover that something long-dormant has awoken in the town, and this will be no ordinary Halloween. What is the secret of the ancient chestnut tree and the mysterious book discovered tangled in its roots? What rises from the local churchyard in the dead of night, sealing up the lips of the only witness? And why are the harmless trappings of Halloween suddenly taking on a creepy new life of their own? As nightmarish creatures prowl the streets, the Doctor and Martha must battle to prevent both the townspeople and themselves from suffering a grisly fate… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558ec3e0e4b01327377556ab/1435420958451-C1FCRYIVGF6T2MS8KY9L/covers14.jpg Tie-In work - Doctor Who - Deep Blue When a lighthouse keeper reports seeing a ball of light plunging into the sea off Tayborough Sands, UNIT sends Mike Yates to investigate. The last thing he expects to find there is an old friend – with a new face… The Doctor and his companions arrive on a pleasure beach in the 1970s, hoping for time off after their recent adventures. But they do not get to relax for long. Violent incidents are at an all-time high in the area and people are going missing – or else changing into something more than human… The Doctor soon realizes a malign presence lurks in the cold seas off Tayborough Sands – a presence with sinister designs upon humanity. Featuring the 5th Doctor, Tegan, Turlough and UNIT, this adventure takes place between the TV stories WARRIORS OF THE DEEP and THE AWAKENING. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558ec3e0e4b01327377556ab/1435420959838-7YPMZW0DVL0SNQ9FT0QI/covers13.jpg Tie-In work - Doctor Who - Bodysnatchers London 1894. Amid the fog, cold and degradation a gruesome business is being conducted. The bodies of the dead are being stolen from their graves for the sinister purpose of a very mysterious gentleman. When the Doctor and Sam arrive they are witness to a horrifying scene in the evil-smelling fog: something rises up from the filthy waters of the Thames and devours a man – a man terrified for his life and on the run from the Devil himself… Teaming up with an old friend, pathologist Professor George Litefoot, the Doctor is determined to get to the bottom of the mystery. Together with Sam, they discover there is a far graver threat facing London than just earthly grave robbers. Deadly alien beings the Doctor has encountered before are at work, and they bring a whole new twist to the word ‘bodysnatchers’… Featuring the Zygons, who battled the 4th Doctor on TV in TERROR OF THE ZYGONS, this novel is one of a series of original adventures featuring the 8th Doctor and his companion, Sam. http://www.markmorrisfiction.com/audios-1 daily 0.75 2015-09-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558ec3e0e4b01327377556ab/1441898117850-M4MZATSZ4IN5QXO2TEA5/audio+45.jpg Audios - Doctor who:False Gods Released in 2008, my first foray into scriptwriting was the 25-minute Doctor Who audio drama False Gods, starring Sylvester McCoy (7th Doctor), Sophie Aldred (Ace), Philip Olivier (Hex) and Benedict Cumberbatch (Howard Carter). One of four audio dramas released under the umbrella title Forty-Five (a number significant to each story and also a nod to the forty-fifth anniversary of the series itself), my story, set in 1902, concerns the opening of an ancient tomb by archeologist Howard Carter in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt – a tomb whose discovery sheds new light on the history of the world as we know it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558ec3e0e4b01327377556ab/1441898117850-M4MZATSZ4IN5QXO2TEA5/audio+45.jpg Audios - Doctor who:False Gods Released in 2008, my first foray into scriptwriting was the 25-minute Doctor Who audio drama False Gods, starring Sylvester McCoy (7th Doctor), Sophie Aldred (Ace), Philip Olivier (Hex) and Benedict Cumberbatch (Howard Carter). One of four audio dramas released under the umbrella title Forty-Five (a number significant to each story and also a nod to the forty-fifth anniversary of the series itself), my story, set in 1902, concerns the opening of an ancient tomb by archeologist Howard Carter in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt – a tomb whose discovery sheds new light on the history of the world as we know it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558ec3e0e4b01327377556ab/1441898142481-VH3M9I118HKNTCAU8R2G/audio+plague.jpg Audios - DOCTOR WHO: PLAGUE OF THE DALEKS According to the guide books Stockbridge is the loveliest village in England. But something is coming to this rural idyll. Something which turns mild-mannered villagers into ravening zombies. It is a plague such as the Earth has never seen before, falling through history from a time when humanity’s greatest enemy was a race known as the Daleks. Released in 2009, this 4-part audio drama stars Peter Davison (5th Doctor), Sarah Sutton (Nyssa), Keith Barron (Isaac Barclay), Liza Tarbuck (Lysette Barclay) and Nicholas Briggs as the voice of the Daleks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558ec3e0e4b01327377556ab/1441898131438-V6UY7L7ERJPIHQIKUNAT/audio+house.jpg Audios - DOCTOR WHO: HOUSE OF BLUE FIRE Aquaphobia – an abnormal fear of water, or drowning. Blattodephobia – the morbid fear of cockroaches. Catoptrophobia – the fear of mirrors, or seeing one’s own reflection. There’s a whole ABC of horrors at Bluefire House, as four young people, drawn together to this tumbledown hotel at the edge of nowhere, are about to discover. But what is the ancient, foul thing that has emerged from the wilderness to bring them here? And why does speaking of it only strengthen it? The Doctor alone knows what lurks at the heart of Bluefire House. The monster of his childhood dreams is coming. And just this once, the Doctor is afraid. Released in 2011, this 4-part audio drama stars Sylvester McCoy (7th Doctor), Timothy West (Dr Magnus Soames), Miranda Keeling (Number 5), Howard Gossington (Number 12), Ray Emmett Brown (Number 16), Amy Pemberton (Number 18) and Lizzy Watts (Eve Pritchard). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558ec3e0e4b01327377556ab/1441898136798-22J9J84N7A29SR49AWAU/audio+moonflesh.jpg Audios - DOCTOR WHO: MOONFLESH You wouldn’t normally expect to find wild animals roaming free in Suffolk in the year 1911. But when the Doctor and Nyssa arrive they find themselves pursued through the English countryside by a hungry lioness. They soon discover they have landed in the private hunting grounds of the famous explorer Nathaniel Whitlock, who has brought together a motley group of acquaintances for a weekend’s shooting. But one of Whitlock’s guests isn’t all that they seem. One of them wants the secrets of the Moonflesh, the strange red crystal discovered by Whitlock’s retainer, a Native American known as Silver Crow. Because the Moonflesh is reputed to have the power to call upon spirits from another realm… …And soon the hunters will become the hunted. Released in 2014, this 4-part audio drama stars Peter Davison (5th Doctor), Sarah Sutton (Nyssa), Tim Bentinck (Nathaniel Whitlock), Rosanna Miles (Phoebe Whitlock), John Banks (Silver Crow), Francesca Hunt (Hannah Bartholomew), Hugh Fraser (Edwin Tremayne) and Geoffrey Breton (Hector Tremayne). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558ec3e0e4b01327377556ab/1441898124342-SMYHC23QJ89IJVO8G97L/audio+freakshow.jpg Audios - DOCTOR WHO (THE COMPANION CHRONICLES): FREAKSHOW The TARDIS arrives in Arizona in 1905, where travelling showman Thaddeus P. Winklemeyer is offering the residents of Buzzard Creek the elixir of life. Winklemeyer also owns a unique carnival full of caged alien creatures. And in the Doctor’s companion Turlough he has found a brand new exhibit… Part narration, part drama, this story, released as part of the boxset Doctor Who – The Companion Chronicles – The Specials in 2011, stars Mark Strickson (Turlough) and Toby Longworth (Thaddeus P. Winklemeyer). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558ec3e0e4b01327377556ab/1441898118770-0E8E8DEGQFYI9NSPYU1Y/audio+darkstar.jpg Audios - DOCTOR WHO: DARKSTAR ACADEMY When the TARDIS is buffeted by ‘time slippage’ the Doctor experiences a terrible vision of the end of everything. Tracking the source of the disruption, he, Amy and Rory arrive at what appears to be an English public school in the 1950s. Upon further investigation, however, the time travellers discover that the prefects at this particular school carry guns, and that the school grounds are surrounded by an invisible forcefield. But it isn’t until the school is attacked by a swarm of foot-long, crab-like carnivores with spiny, armoured bodies that things really start to go wrong! Written specially for audio, this hour-long story, released in 2012, features the 11th Doctor, as portrayed on TV by Matt Smith, and his companions Amy and Rory. It is read by Alexander Armstrong. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558ec3e0e4b01327377556ab/1441898137846-4K7D55ZACFMO0TK4P0DH/audio+necropolis.jpg Audios - JAGO & LITEFOOT: THE NECROPOLIS EXPRESS Strange things are happening in the pauper’s graveyard at Charnel’s End. There are hideous creatures in the undergrowth, a mysterious light emanating from the church, and something deadly beneath the ground itself. Someone from Litefoot’s past has come back to haunt him, and things may never be the same again… Released in 2011, this Victorian-set audio drama features the characters Henry Gordon Jago and George Litefoot (from the hugely popular 1977 BBC TV Doctor Who story The Talons of Weng-Chiang, which starred Tom Baker as the 4th Doctor) in one of their own series of adventures. The Necropolis Express was the second of four stories released as part of the box set Jago & Litefoot – Investigators of Infernal Incidents – Series Two and starred Christopher Benjamin (Jago), Trevor Baxter (Litefoot), Lisa Bowerman (Ellie Higson), Vernon Dobtcheff (Reuben Mord), David Collings (Gabriel Sanders) and Alex Mallinson (The Station Master). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558ec3e0e4b01327377556ab/1441898143543-LGZ7GSQC4D4SU3SC1XT0/audio+torchwood.jpg Audios - TORCHWOOD: MR INVINCIBLE Ross Chapman is one of life’s losers. So when he survives a point-blank shooting, dons a superhero costume and becomes a crime-busting vigilante, something strange is clearly going on. And Ross’s transformation isn’t the only odd thing happening in Cardiff. Time is distorting – around the city, some people are aging, dying and decomposing in a matter of minutes, while others are reverting to childhood. Sgt Andy Davidson knows he’s out of his depth – so when Jack Harkness sweeps into the police station, he’s glad of the help that only Torchwood can provide. But for Jack the stakes are higher than ever. He’s seen a vision of Gwen, dead, murdered by an unknown gunman. And if he can’t solve the mystery of Mr Invincible, he can’t save her. Released in 2012, this hour-long story, written specially for audio, is read by Tom Price, who played Sgt Andy Davidson in the hit BBC television series. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558ec3e0e4b01327377556ab/1441898129202-WZ3AT8IAWDEZIJKZR5YO/audio+hammer.jpg Audios - HAMMER CHILLERS: THE FIXATION When Ian Hibbert witnesses a man dumping a bag of rubbish outside his house he decides enough is enough. But after initiating a local clean-up campaign, he discovers, to his cost, that someone – or something – is resistant to his efforts. Lethally resistant. Released in 2013, audio drama The Fixation is one of six stories that comprise the box set Hammer Chillers – Series One. The other stories are The Box by Stephen Gallagher, Sticks and Stones by Robin Ince, The Devil in the Darkness by Christopher Fowler, Spanish Ladies by Paul Magrs and Don’t Go There by Stephen Volk. 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