Longbarrow 16 June 1997 Mr Bad Face About the Author Bibliography Mark Morris
Longbarrow 16 June 1997
Mr Bad Face
About the Author
Bibliography
Longbarrow
A chilling tale of an old evil awakening once more from
"One of the finest horror writers at work today" Clive Barker
'If you run round the church seven times in an anti-clockwise
direction, you’ll wake the Seven Sleepers. Then, if you look through the keyhole of
the church door, you'll see the Devil walking up the aisle towards you…' When David
Wisher's mother inherits a house in the peaceful Yorkshire village of Longbarrow, David
feels he is coming home. For he's seen the house in his dreams. And when he eventually
arrives in Longbarrow. He finds a place touched by the stories and beliefs of the past.
There's old Jonas Dyer, whose mystical visions have driven him to the verge of madness; Mr
Toot, who uses magic to cure all ills; the little men, too small to be human, who are said
to come out of the river; and Black Shuck, a ghostly dog with glowing eyes whose
appearance heralds approaching death. Most extraordinary of all, there’s the legend
of the Seven. Sleepers, defeated in an ancient battle and trapped throughout the
centuries, their evil powers dormant. Redcap, Uther, Vinegar Tom, Gerennius, Shuck,
Pyewackett and Cullen. Together they spread terror, pestilence and destruction. Now.
because of David's unwitting actions. the Seven Sleepers are stirring once more…
Mr Bad Face
It started as a haremless practical joke. But then the real
nightmare begins… John Straker is the neighbourhood bogeyman. Hideously disfigured,
he heides himself away form the rest of the world - until the night when a group of
children set fire to his house nad reduce it - and its owner - to ashes.
Mr Bad Face has been well and truly laid to rest. Or so the
children think...
They're grown up now and they've struggled hard to leave the
bad dreams behind. Then, without warning, a figure from the past casts his shasow across
the present. Mr Bad Face is back - and he wants revenge.
About The
Author
Mark Morris was born in the mining town of Bolsover in 1963,
and then spent his childhood in Tewkesbury, Hong Kong, Newark and Huddersfield. Mark
Morris lives near Leeds with his wife and young family. He became a full-time writer in
1988 on the Enterprise Allowance Scheme, and a year later saw the release of his first
novel, Toady. Since then he has published four more novels, Stitch, The Immaculate, Secret
of Anatomy and Mr Bad Face, as well as a collection of short stories, Close To The Bone.
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