Toady.

UK,thick 8vo+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,dw/dj unclipped - due to absence of publisher's price - an export copy? Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated colour pictorial artwork by Ken Leeder,illustrated upper wrap with red+white lettering,author b/w portrait photographic rear wrap; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present. Top+fore-edges generally bright and clean; contents bright,tight and clean also - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - an unread copy? Publisher's bright, crisp,clean,original plain maroon cloth boards with bright, crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,thick 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,vpp +1-522pp [paginated] includes dedication,Pts1-3 comprising 9 chapters+epilogue; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages. Welcome to the Horror Club; a world of werewolves and poltergeists, pyschpaths and shape changers,the unquiet and the living dead. . . . A fantasy world,of course,for Richard,Robin and Nigel,the club's members,are ordinary boys from ordinary families, who just happen to share a taste for the macabre in films and videos,books and comics.And then they admit a fourth member to their club - Toady,a far from ordinary boy with a taste for the macabre in real life.From the moment he lures the others into a nerve-jangling seance in a house with a chilling reputation, their lives are blighted by worse horror than they have ever imagined. In a fusion of nightmare and reality,terror stalks the familiar streets of a sleepy seaside town and waits to invade the safest home.The pervasive stain of evil spreads like ripples on a pond,leaving a trail of sacrilege and death in its wake. One by one the members of the Horror Club are overcome and forced into a netherworld,halfway between illusion and reality.It is up to the final member to fight alone against the evil they have unleashed - until,in the final battle,he is joined by an unexpected ally. 'Toady' is a staggering achievement from a young first novelist.Mark Morris takes all the established horror conventions and reworks them in a way that is completely fresh and inimitably his own.Not since Clive Barker has there been such a mesmerising debut. Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,because of the bulkier weight and the vale of this item,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence, then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **