Stitch
Contributors: Peter Crowther (review); John Gilbert (interview)
Edition: New Expanded edition
Publisher: Humdrumming
Published: September 21, 2007
Place of publication: Stratford-upon-Avon, England, UK
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9781905532421
Subjects: Horror & ghost stories
First sentence: Light slithered over him, shaping the blue-white putty of his face, throwing zebra stripes of shadow across his shirt front.
Description: Autumn term at Maybury University and, as the nights draw in, so does an atmosphere of menace. Dan Latcher — a previously quiet and withdrawn student — blossoms overnight into the forceful illusion-working leader of a charismatic student movement, ‘The Crack’; an organization with the power to shape and alter its followers’ personalities, pushing them on to mindless heights of pleasure and pain.
When hitherto bright, vivacious fresher Stephanie Peele becomes one of his converts, her worried room-mate Annie enlists the support of fellow student Ian.
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…
Notes: Hardcover, expanded edition, replaces ISBN: 0-440-21259-6 (Dell, Mass-Market Paper-Back; August, 1992)
Table of contents: value: Introduction: The Difficult Second Novel; value: Part One: The Crack; value: Part Two: The Thousand-Mile Stare; value: Part Three: Happy as Larry; value: Part Four: Parting the Red Sleaze; value: Epilogue; value: Exclusive Bonus Material: "Fear Magazine" Review; value: Exclusive Bonus Material: “l’Enfant Terrible” ("Fear Magazine" Interview); value: Exclusive Bonus Material: “Warts and All” (Short Story)