Was there a point as a child or teenager when you abruptly realized you wanted to make your living writing horror? Morris and his family live in Tadcaster, North Yorkshire.Īs a child, you watched Doctor Who and the Hammer films, and you’ve mentioned both as influences. His most recent releases are the tie-in novel for the Darren Aronofsky film Noah, and Zombie Apocalypse!: Horror Hospital, a stand-alone novel set within the Zombie Apocalypse! world created by editor Stephen Jones. After PanMacmillan passed on his next novel, Morris found success in writing Doctor Who and Torchwood tie-ins, editing nonfiction anthologies of film essays, and contributing short fiction to dozens of anthologies. Morris,” to reflect the book’s female protagonist. Morris changed his name to the gender-neutral “J. His 2002 novel Fiddleback was acquired by PanMacmillan and received a significant advance from Random House for an American release . . . When his fourth novel, The Secret of Anatomy, was published by HarperCollins in 1995, he was being called “the new Clive Barker,” but his next few novels were victims of a serious downturn in horror. Mark Morris has been a major figure on the British horror scene since 1989, when Toady, the first of his sixteen novels, was published to critical acclaim and solid sales (the 1990 paperback release debuted at number seven on the bestseller list).
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