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Garth Marenghi’s TerrorTome

Dreamweaver, Doomsage, Sunday Times bestseller
By Garth Marenghi
Series: TerrorTome
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Garth Marenghi’s TerrorTome follows the tale of horror author Nick Steen who becomes ensnared in a terrifying and surreal world after unleashing dark entities from his manuscript. As the boundaries between fiction and reality blur, he must navigate this macabre landscape filled with nightmarish creatures and face the sinister forces threatening his life and sanity. The book is a satirical homage to horror tropes, delivered with dark humour and creativity.
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You might enjoy this book if you revel in spine-chilling horror blended with dark humour and a touch of satire. It's perfect for readers who appreciate a parody of the horror genre, played out through an engaging and eccentric narrative style. Prepare to be amused by its clever wit while being thrilled by its twisted adventures.

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From the mind of horror master Garth Marenghi: a masterful multi-volume horror masterpiece thirty years in the making...

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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)

'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'

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  • Garth Marenghi’s TerrorTome
    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...
    By Garth Marenghi
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Garth Marenghi’s TerrorTome is praised for its brilliant parody of the horror genre with its intentionally over-the-top, clichéd prose. Critics admire its skilful balance of deliberate corniness and genuine affection for the style it mimics, resulting in an engaging, humour-laden read that both honours and pokes fun at classic supernatural tales. The book is recognised as an addictive, joyful homage to schlocky 1980s horror, filled with razor-sharp wit and delightfully dreadful storytelling.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781529399424

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 25 May 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Coronet Books

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 22.0mm

Width: 128.0mm

Height: 196.0mm

Weight: 215g

Pages: 304

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Fiction Garth Marenghi General Fiction Horror & Supernatural Humour Series: TerrorTome

About the Author

Garth Marenghi was born in the past, graduated from his local comprehensive (now bulldozed) with some O levels in subjects. He taught for nine years at his local library reading group before becoming a full-time horror writer. He has published numerous novels of terror (too numerous to list, nay count), over five hundred short stories, and has edited thirty anthologies of his own work, which have all received the Grand Master of Darkdom Award. He wrote, directed and starred in Garth Marenghi's Darkplace for the Peruvian market, which subsequently aired on Channel 4 and has not been repeated due to its radical and polemic content. He commenced work on TerrorTome during the late 1980s, continued on it alone and unaided by editors throughout the 1990s, and on into the early 2000s, then the mid-2000s, and has only now found a publisher brave enough to unleash its chilling portendings. He is an honorary fellow.

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