Toady

About this book

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 clubs 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 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 ally. Toady is a staggering achievement from a young first novelist. Mark Morris takes all the established horror conventions and reworks them in a way that is completely fresh and inimitably his own. Not since Clive Barker has there been such a mesmerising debut.