Short stories by Mark Morris
Mark Morris has written over thirty books, among which are the novels Toady, Stitch, The Immaculate, The Secret of Anatomy, Fiddleback, The Deluge and four books in the popular Doctor Who range. He is also the author of three short story collections, Close to the Bone; Long Shadows, Nightmare Light and Wrapped In Skin, and several novellas.His short fiction, articles and reviews have appeared in a wide variety of anthologies and magazines, and he is editor of Cinema Macabre, a book of horror movie essays by genre luminaries for which he won the 2007 British Fantasy Award, its follow-up Cinema Futura, and two volumes of The Spectral Book of Horror Stories. His script work includes audio dramas for Big Finish Productions’ Doctor Who and Jago & Litefoot ranges, and also for Bafflegab’s Hammer Chillers series, and his recently published work includes the official movie tie-in novelisations of Darren Aronofsky’s Noah and Zhang Yimou's The Great Wall,two novellas – It Sustains (Earthling Publications), which was nominated for a 2013 Shirley Jackson Award, and Albion Fay (Snow Books) – and The Wraiths of War, book three of the Obsidian Heart trilogy (Titan Books). Upcoming is Indigo (St Martin's Press), a horror novel about a new kind of superhero co-written with nine other authors, and, as editor, New Fears (Titan Books).
Listing 2 stories.
A teacher takes her students on a field trip to a tin mine. While underground, a haunting legend foreshadows a grotesque, karmic tragedy.
A man, who gives his wife space by revisiting the seaside bed and breakfast from his childhood, becomes part of a murder investigation and is intrigued by a mysterious woman.