Mark called up to the boy who stood on top of a ruined fragment of castle wall. The boy was more than a dozen feet above the ground and swayed. The October breeze made Mark even colder in his Halloween costume. Shivers ran up his back. The boy¹s head slowly turned and he looked down, fixing his pale blue eyes on Mark¹s face. He said something. It sounded foreign. Then Mark understood the truth, and he was terrified....
Author
Born, 20th April, 1958, Simon Clark is the author of such highly regarded horror novels as Nailed By The Heart, Blood Crazy, Darker, Vampyrrhic and The Fall, while his short stories have been collected in Blood & Grit and Salt Snake & Other Bloody Cuts. He has also written prose material for the internationally famous rock band U2. Raised in a family of storytellers – family legend told of a stolen human skull buried beneath the Clark garage – he sold his first ghost story to a radio station in his teens. Before becoming a full-time writer he held a variety of day jobs, that have involved strawberry picking, supermarket shelf stacking, office work, and scripting video promos. He lives with his wife and two children in mystical territory that lies on the border of Robin Hood country in England.
