I first met Mark Morris at a FantasyCon in Birmingham: I guess it was the mid to late 1980s and his debut novel, Toady (aka The Horror Club in the USA) was either just out or imminent. I was in the early throes of putting together a contributor list for my debut anthology (Narrow Houses, as it turned out) and I liked the ‘cut of his jib’ as they say, so I asked him on board. He was sitting with Nick Royle and I asked Nick, too. (As it happens, Nick’s story—a riff on Schrodinger...