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Mark David Welsh

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in Norwich, The United Kingdom

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Fantasy, Science Fiction, Horror

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As a child of the sixties, it might be assumed that I had a wild and crazy upbringing. Instead, it was the beige suffocation of 1970s English suburbia, all broken tarmac, parkas, flares, chopper bikes and Doctor Who at teatime on the telly on a Saturday night. This early exposure to Sea Devils, Ice Warriors and the like, along with late-night showings of the classic Universal monster movies on BBC2, provided my escape from the mundanities of double woodwork on a Thursday afternoon, the unforgivable sin of being bad at sports and the inevitable humiliation of wearing National Health Service glasses. As a voracious reader from the moment I left the womb (I was probably trying to read my mother's chart moments after delivery), my tastes crysta ...more

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	Vagabond Sky 4.29 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kingdom of Ghosts 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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A collection of four short novels based on Hammer Horror movies, ‘The Reptile’, ‘The Plague of the Zombies’, ‘Rasputin the Mad Monk’, and ‘Dracula: Prince of Darkness’. Seemingly written specifically for this Omnibus, the length of these novels do mak ...more
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Ten tales from the wonderful William Hope Hodgson, which form a very solid introduction to his weird fiction for anyone unfamiliar with his work. Four of these are from his ‘Carnacki, the Ghost Finder’ series, and include two of my favourites ‘The Hor ...more
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Terrific and wonderfully comprehensive guide to horror films of the 1930s. As a huge fan of classic horror from that era, I'd assumed that there wouldn’t be many films covered here that I’d never seen, but I was completely wrong. Yes, most of those ar ...more
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Roland Clewe is perhaps the greatest genius that the world has ever known. He’s conceived and built a revolutionary new submersible called the ‘Dipsey’, which he sends to the Arctic regions on an expedition to discover the North Pole. At the same tim ...more
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