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Mark Morris (b. 1963) was born in the mining town of Bolsover, and spent his childhood in the English towns of Tewkesbury, Newark and Huddersfield, as well as Hong Kong. He became a full-time writer in 1988 on the Enterprise Allowance Scheme, and a year later saw the publication of his first novel, Toady (aka The Horror Club). Since then he has had eight further novels published: Stitch, The Immaculate, The Secret of Anatomy, Mr. Bad Face, Longbarrow, Genesis, Fiddleback (as “J.M. Morris”) and Nowhere Near an Angel, along with the Doctor Who novelizations The Bodysnatchers and Deep Blue. His short fiction has appeared in such magazines and anthologies as Fear, Skeleton Crew, Peeping Tom, The Third Alternative, Interzone, Cemetery Dance, Subterranean, Final Shadows, Dark Voices 3, Darklands and Darklands 2, Blue Motel, Dark Terrors, The Mammoth Book of Werewolves, Taps and Sighs, Best New Horror, Fourbodings and Night Visions 12, and has been collected in Close to the Bone. He is the editor of Cinema Macabre, a multi-authored collection of essays on horror films avowedly modeled on Horror: 100 Best Books.