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Welcome to The CrackAutumn term at Maybury University and, as the nights draw in, so does an atmosphere of menace. Dan Latcher a? a previously quiet and withdrawn student a? blossoms overnight into the forceful illusion-working leader of a charismatic student movement, a?The Cracka?; an organization with the power to shape and alter its followersa? personalities, pushing them on to mindless heights of pleasure and pain.When hitherto bright, vivacious fresher Stephanie Peele becomes one of show more 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 soula?|This special edition also includes the following bonus material: * a brand new introduction by the author * an interview conducted at the time of the booka's original release * a bonus short story a?Warts and Alla? written the same yearmaking this the definitive edition of Marka's second novel! A big, blusteringly red-faced, glowering novel of neo-religious cults, bizarre sex and rarely plumbed levels of almost impenetrable blacknessa?| the essence of true horror. a? Peter Crowther, Fear Magazine A sizzling banquet of the bizarre that simply demands to be read. a? Julian Lloyd Webber, Sunday Express show less

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A well written horror story. I loved that we got real character development from Annie and Ian. They are freshmen at a university and when Annie’s roommate falls under the spell of the mysterious Dan Latcher, Annie is determined to help her.

This book was interesting and creepy. We don’t know exactly what Stitch is up to until the very end. I thought the final battle a little silly, but before that was a great story.

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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

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Fiction and Literature, Horror
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823.914Literature & rhetoricEnglish & Old English literaturesEnglish fiction1900-1901-19991945-1999
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PR6063 .O763Language and LiteratureEnglishEnglish Literature1961-2000

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