Horror writer Garth Marenghi is set to return after many years in the darkness.
Comedian/actor Matthew Holness, who plays Marenghi, released a video clip to announce a new book on social media.
“I have returned at last from the darkness – figurative darkness that is, I’m not a spelunker – to bring you Garth Marenghi’s TerrorTome, my latest novel of supernatural terror. Hence, TerrorTome. It’s out on November 10th. Which is technically after Halloween but I had an argument with the editor and things got delayed a bit. Pre-order now and you will receive the entire book on publication day. Frightfully yours, Garth Marenghi."
Marenghi/Holness, alongside Richard Ayoade and Alice Lowe, won the Perrier Award for Best Comedy Show at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2001. They went on to star in the C4 cult sitcom Dark Place, which also featured Matt Berry.
The blurb pretty much says it all:
Dare you crack open the TerrorTome? (Mind the spine)
When horror writer Nick Steen gets sucked into a cursed typewriter by the terrifying Type-Face, Dark Lord of the Prolix, the hellish visions inside his head are unleashed for real. Forced to fight his escaping imagination - now leaking out of his own brain - Nick must defend the town of Stalkford from his own fictional horrors, including avascular-necrosis-obsessed serial killer Nelson Strain and Nick's dreaded throppleganger, the Dark Third.
Can he and Roz, his frequently incorrect female editor, hunt down these incarnate denizens of Nick's rampaging imaginata before they destroy Stalkford, outer Stalkford and possibly slightly further?
From the twisted genius of horror master Garth Marenghi - Frighternerman, Darkscribe, Doomsage (plus Man-Shee) - come three dark tales from his long-lost multi-volume epic: TerrorTome.
Can a brain leak?
(Yes, it can)
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'Reads like Garth's classic oeuvre of paperback horrors crossed with the X-Files, Faustian myth and bits of Manimal. Plus the cover is embossed with genuine foil at his insistence and at your expense'
Ken Hodder, Head of Hodder
'These three tales of terror by Garth Marenghi are... quality'
Queen Fang, NosFor(at)um.com
'A strong beginning, deepening intrigue and a knockout ending'
How to Write Magazine
Pre-order Terrortome here.
