Mark Morris became a full-time writer in 1988 on the Enterprise Allowance Scheme. A year later his first novel, Toady, was published. He has since published a further sixteen novels, including Stitch, The Immaculate, The Secret of Anatomy, Fiddleback, The Deluge and four books in the Doctor Who series, including the bestselling Ghosts of India, and the Torchwood novel, Bay of the Dead.
His short stories, novellas, articles and reviews have appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines, and he is editor of the acclaimed Cinema Macabre, a book of horror movie essays by genre luminaries, for which he won the 2007 British Fantasy Award. He lives in Tadcaster, N. Yorks.