![]() That story centres on the members of the ‘Horror Club’ a group of school boys who delight in horror fiction and movies (Ramsey Campbell gets a nod). ![]() Toady was published in the USA as The Horror Club.There’s nothing that’s obviously bloated or slow here, just a lot of incident and story. Like King when he’s on form, Morris manages to justify that length. It’s also very long (not ‘IT’ long, but 700 pages for a first novel is pretty hardcore). ![]() Instead, it’s creepy, imaginative and very, very English. It’s a credit to Mark Morris that despite those similarities ‘Toady’ never feels derivative. Like Stephen King’s novel of three years earlier, the book features a gang of school kids battling a shapeshifting monster in a small town. If you wanted to sum up Mark Morris’s ‘Toady’ in 2 words, you’d say it was a British ‘IT’ (BrIT, maybe). ![]() Year: 1989 | Pages: 702 | Genre: Horror | Language: English | Source: Self-purchased | Starred Review: Yes Title: Toady | Author: Mark Morris | Publisher: Corgi | Pub. From the moment he lures the boys to a seance, unimagined horror overtakes their lives. Then they admit a fourth member to their club – Toady, who is not at all an ordinary boy. Richard, Robin and Nigel are ordinary boys who share a taste for the macabre in films, videos, books and comics. ![]()
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