Garth Marenghi’s TerrorTome novel is now available!

A creation of comedians Matthew Holness and Richard Ayoade, Garth Marenghi is a fictional horror author who has earned a fan following through his appearances in the stage shows Garth Marenghi’s Fright Knight and Garth Marenghi’s Netherhead, as well as the TV shows Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace and Man to Man with Dean Learner. Now Marenghi (who has been played on stage and screen by Holness) is back – and fans finally have the chance to read one of his novels! Garth Marenghi’s TerrorTome has been published and is now available to order in e-book or audiobook editions at THIS LINK.

Garth Marenghi’s TerrorTome has the following description:

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)

Marenghi had this to say about his new book: “Less a book, more a petrifying mind-realm, or ‘psych-zone’, if you will (and you must), TerrorTome charts the paranormal adventures of fictional horror paperback author Nick Steen. Rejected by both Heaven and Hell for his blasphemous visions, Nick is a fallen angel now living in purgative limbo (his hometown of Stalkford), chained (literally) to a cursed typewriter, in a flat which also forms a part-cosmic portal to unexplored demonic realms. When Nick’s imagination escapes, leaking out of his own head, Stalkford is overrun with the fictional horrors of his own books, their incarnate denizens hellbent on destroying Stalkford, outer Stalkford and possibly sightly further. Can Nick (plus Roz, his frequently incorrect female editor) hunt down these horrors of Nick’s tortured imaginata before they destroy Stalkford and beyond (like I just explained)? Garth Marenghi’s TerrorTome will read like my 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 my insistence and at your expense. So curl up with my new book, pilgrim, and die…“

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