



From the start of the novel, Morris weaves a graphic, and at times disturbing tale that keeps a fast pace throughout. Drawing upon his dark imagination, Morris' novel 'Stitch' delivers a nasty tale of a bizarre magical force that empowers its victims that become part of it's cult. Morris 'Fiddleback' and 'The Lonely Places'). While the campus is further beset by an unknown knife-wielding psychopath, Annie and Ian pit their strength against the forces of evil, as personified by Latcher and his infinitely more potent puppet master, Peregrine Stitch, voraciously sucking in new converts body and soul."īack in 1991 the author Mark Morris released his forth novel 'Stitch' through Piatkus Books (his first two novels were released under the pseudo name J. With hitherto bright, vivacious fresher Stephanie Peele becomes one of his converts, her worried room-mate Annie enlists the support of fellow student Ian. Dan Latcher, a previously quiet and withdrawn student, blossoms overnight into the forceful illusion-working leader of a charismatic student movement, The Crack - an organisation with the power to shape and alter its followers' personalities, pushing them on to mindless heights of pleasure and pain. "Autumn term at Maybury university, and as the nights draw in, so does an atmosphere of menace.
