But soon these new students have real problems to face, when friends of theirs mysteriously go missing, or have their personalities drastically altered. It follows the lives of various British college freshman, all living on campus, and Morris is great at capturing the university atmosphere, complete with all the minor trials and tribulations that seem so important to us when we're young.

I have no reservations in calling Stitch, Morris' second novel (not his fourth like another review here states), a masterpiece of horror. I've been going through some of my old horror magazines, and I keep coming across statements referring to Mark Morris as 'the next big thing' or 'the new Clive Barker.' Too bad the horror-fiction market crashed not too long after the author hit the scene, or else those magazines may have been right. His most recently published or forthcoming work includes a novella entitled It Sustains for Earthling Publications, a Torchwood novel entitled Bay of the Dead, several Doctor Who audios for Big Finish Productions, a follow-up volume to Cinema Macabre entitled Cinema Futura and a new short story collection, Long Shadows, Nightmare Light. His short stories, novellas, articles and reviews have appeared in a wide variety of anthologies and magazines, and he is editor of the highly-acclaimed Cinema Macabre, a book of fifty horror movie essays by genre luminaries, for which he won the 2007 British Fantasy Award.

He has since published a further sixteen novels, among which are Stitch, The Immaculate, The Secret of Anatomy, Fiddleback, The Deluge and four books in the popular Doctor Who range. Mark Morris became a full-time writer in 1988 on the Enterprise Allowance Scheme, and a year later saw the release of his first novel, Toady.

There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.

Stitch by Mark Morris