Toady
by Mark Morris
On This Page
Description
NEW LOWER PRICE! NEW HARDER BINDING! SAME CLASSIC CONTENT! NOT A WORD HAS BEEN REMOVED; EVEN THE DIRTY ONES!Welcome to the Horror Club: a world of werewolves and poltergeists, psychopaths and shape changers, the un-quiet and the living dead.A fantasy world, of course, for Richard, Robin and Nigel, the cluba'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 show more club - Toady, a far from ordinary boy with a taste for the macabre in real life. From the moment he lures the others into a nerve-jangling seance in a house with a chilling reputation, their lives are blighted by worse horror than they have ever imagined.In a fusion of nightmare and reality, 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 overcome and forced into a netherworld, halfway between illusion and reality. It is up to the final member to fight alone against the evil they have unleashed - until, in the final battle, he is joined by an unexpected allya?|Toady is a staggering achievement. BFS Award-nominated author Mark Morris takes all the established horror conventions and reworks them in a way that is completely fresh and inimitably his own, in this; his first novel. show lessTags
Recommendations
Member Reviews
Synopsis:
Richard, Robin and Nigel are ordinary boys who share a taste for the macabre in films, videos, books and comics. Then they admit a fourth member to their club - Toady, who is not at all an ordinary boy. From the moment he lures the boys to a seance, unimagined horror overtakes their lives.
Richard, Robin and Nigel are ordinary boys who share a taste for the macabre in films, videos, books and comics. Then they admit a fourth member to their club - Toady, who is not at all an ordinary boy. From the moment he lures the boys to a seance, unimagined horror overtakes their lives.
Ratings
Members
- Recently Added By
Lists
Jones & Newman: Best Horror Books Further Recommended Reading
577 works; 4 members
Author Information
80+ Works 3,118 Members
Mark Morris has written tie-in novels for Hellboy,
Spartacus, Doctor Who and Torchwood, and novelizations
for Vampire Circus and the game Dead Island. He has
published 10 critically acclaimed novels, and in 2007 he
won the British Fantasy Award for his anthology Cinema
Macabre. In 2014, Titan Books will publish The Obsidian
Heart, the first novel show more in Morris's new paranormal trilogy. show less
Common Knowledge
- Original publication date
- 1989
Classifications
Statistics
- Members
- 94
- Popularity
- 341,908
- Reviews
- 1
- Rating
- (3.89)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 6
- ASINs
- 1
