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Garth Marenghi’s TerrorTome

Dreamweaver, Doomsage, Sunday Times bestseller

Garth Marenghi author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Hodder & Stoughton

Published:25th May '23

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In Garth Marenghi’s TerrorTome, horror writer Nick Steen battles his own terrifying creations to save his town from chaos and destruction.

In Garth Marenghi’s TerrorTome, horror writer Nick Steen finds himself ensnared in a cursed typewriter, unleashing nightmarish visions that threaten to consume him and the town of Stalkford. As the Dark Lord of the Prolix, Type-Face, wreaks havoc, Nick must confront the terrifying creations of his own imagination. Among these horrors are a serial killer obsessed with avascular necrosis and Nick's own dark doppelgänger, the Dark Third. The stakes rise as these fictional entities begin to manifest in the real world, forcing Nick into a desperate battle to save his town.

Joined by his often misguided editor Roz, Nick embarks on a perilous quest to capture these incarnate nightmares before they wreak havoc beyond Stalkford. The narrative unfolds with a blend of dark humor and chilling suspense, characteristic of Garth Marenghi’s unique storytelling style. As the duo navigates through a landscape filled with bizarre characters and surreal challenges, readers are drawn into a world where the line between fiction and reality blurs.

Garth Marenghi’s TerrorTome presents three interconnected tales that delve into the depths of horror, imagination, and the consequences of creativity. With a witty and self-aware tone, the book not only pays homage to classic horror tropes but also provides a fresh perspective on the genre. Can Nick regain control of his mind and save Stalkford from his own creations, or will he succumb to the terror he has unleashed?

Beautifully bonkers, with a razor-sharp understanding of the genre, Garth Marenghi's prose is schlocky, corny, cliché-ridden and over-written. Full of dread and deliberately dreadful - in other words, addictive and quite perfect * SciFi Bulletin *
The mercurial horror maestro and star of Darkplace delivers a trio of blood curdling tales from his long-lost opus in this side-splittingly spot-on parody of grisly supernatural blockbusters * Waterstones *
Read if you dare, but know that not one bone in your body will remain unchilled * Financial Times *
Books like TerrorTome - so dense with brilliant jokes that it cannot safely be read while drinking hot liquid - are rare indeed. It is clear that Holness loves horror; like the recent Ladybird books and BBC Two's Philomena Cunk, this is a parody that knows and respects its source material. The result is something very bad - and very, very good * The i *
A delight, whether you're a devotee of the shlocky 1980s horror genre or not. TerrorTome is a pitch-perfect parody of terrible genre writing, with overblown, clichéd prose and heavily signposted metaphor * Chortle *
A new Garth Marenghi novel is like a new album by ZZ Top or Status Quo: you know what you're going to get, but by heck you'll love it * Buzz *
Horrormeister Garth Marenghi makes a triumphant comeback with three linked tales of shuddersome, mind-bending fear . . . Top-notch spoofy spookiness * Financial Times, Best Books of 2022 *

ISBN: 9781529399424

Dimensions: 196mm x 128mm x 22mm

Weight: 215g

304 pages