Holness has been touring a live show since November in which, in character, he reads chapters from TerrorTome and then answers questions from the audience. Eventually making it in with an early Marenghi sketch was “one of the greatest feelings, for me, in the world”. Holness wore his granddad’s old glasses and channelled the pulp writers he loved. “That was the first thing I did in the Footlights that got a good reaction,” says Holness.

Marenghi also guests in the first episode of Dean Learner's talk series, Man to Man with Dean Learner, where he reveals that he lost an ear in an ambulance crash, has written a total of 436 books, and has filmed a new movie, War of the Wasps, [8] featuring most of the cast of Garth Marenghi's Darkplace. Marenghi has appeared in an episode of the Russell Howard Hour as part of a Christmas special to read a portion of one of his novels, Flay Bells Sting, Are You Glistening? [9] [10] Bibliography [ edit ] Novels [ edit ] The publication of INCARCERAT is scheduled for 31st October 2023, and the book tour will follow shortly after. Garth Marenghi is the pseudonym of writer and director Matthew Holness, who is best known for his role as the fictional horror author in the cult Channel 4 comedy series Garth Marenghi's Darkplace. Holness is the author of many short stories for horror anthologies and has written and directed several films, including the horror feature Possum. The Russell Howard Hour Series 6 - Christmas Special". British Comedy Guide . Retrieved 13 September 2023. Horror shows set in the 80s are all the rage now. Do you watch Stranger Things with a tinge of jealousy?

Edinburgh Festival Fringe – The Perrier Comedy Awards 2001". Edinburgh Guide. EdinburghGuide.com. August 2001. Archived from the original on 5 September 2008 . Retrieved 9 January 2008.

The UK's answer to Stephen King, Garth Marenghi, has announced a new tour for his latest horror novel, Incarcerat. Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2000 – The Perrier Comedy Awards 2000". EdinburghGuide.com. August 2000. Archived from the original on 12 February 2008 . Retrieved 9 January 2008. Still in my prime, thank you for asking. Though we’ve all put on a bit of weight. One of the main problems with remaking Darkplace is we’d have to change the aspect ratio to fit everyone on screen, probably going up to 16:9 or, on a particularly fat day, 21:9. Publishers Hodder & Stoughton have also bought the rights to a third book, to be released at a later date.after newsletter promotion Typing with more than two fingers is counterproductive for any horror writer; you need to concentrate your strength Some would cite the script, the acting and the essential message of Darkplace as the reason for its longevity. It’s all of those, of course, but Darkplace was ultimately the result of my brain alone. So I would say: my brain alone.

Heartbroken, he pressed on. “I was at a stage in my life where I thought gurning physically was funny, I thought I was the new [comic and rubber-faced impressionist] Phil Cool.” Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace is a show within a show – characters give talking-heads commentary on the 1980s hospital-based horror series in which they starred. That conceit started on stage, where Ayoade’s character, publisher Dean Learner, would introduce Marenghi and his latest theatrical horror production. (Later, they would even stay in character during press interviews.)British film-maker Carol Morley turns her fascination with real-life outsider artist Audrey Amiss into a fictionalised road trip, undertaken by Amiss, played here as an irrepressible force of nature by Monica Dolan, and her reluctant chauffeur Sandra (Kelly Macdonald), as the pair attempt to reach Amiss’s birthplace in Sunderland. a b c Garth Marenghi (February 2004). "Comic's corner: Garth Marenghi". The Telegraph. Telegraph Media Group Limited . Retrieved 14 January 2008.

Ayoade and Lowe joined, too, and in 2000 the three of them and future Paddington director Paul King took Garth Marenghi’s Fright Knight to the Edinburgh Fringe where it was nominated for the Perrier award. In 2001 their follow-up, Garth Marenghi’s Netherhead, won it. From the word processor (that’s correct) of the Archduke O’Darkness, Garth Marenghi – Chief Frightener, Quakerman and Lord High Petrifier – come three new dark tales. We had a bit of problem trying to find a publisher, mainly because the content is so terrifyingly prescient. But my job as a shaman is to evolve mankind. These are stories that need to be told. So, having fired several editors, I got chatting with Ken Hodder, head of Hodder books, who was sat to my immediate right at the same horror convention curry, but not level with me, as I was head of a rectangular table, remember? He’d agreed to read my manuscript in exchange for a free bhuna, but when the hot towels came I swapped his glass for the metal goblet I insist on quaffing from – which is deceptively deep – and got him to sign there and then. Give or take another bottle. Holness admits Netherhead was less fun – pressure was high following Fright Knight’s success – but it too was nominated for the comedy award, and won. “That was amazing,” says Lowe. “There was disbelief for me; there weren’t many women at Edinburgh at that time. I never had plans to go into comedy or thought I would earn money being an actor. It was life-changing.” Deans, Jason (15 September 2003). "Marenghi spoof to spook C4 viewers". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077 . Retrieved 23 November 2023.

Some dates for the show starring Matthew Holness in character had already been revealed, however today it has been confirmed that the tour will now run to 2024. I won’t sit between anybody. If it’s the annual horror convention curry, I am always head of a long, rectangular table. One year, I wasn’t sat there and cancelled the entire event. Last year, Richard Osman – who was in the area and had been staring in at us for 20 minutes through the window – tried to cadge a free pudding, saying he was hoping to segue into horror after conquering cosy crime. I sat him at the far end and we all completely ignored him. He left two of his three scoops entirely untouched. The term is “dramamentary”. That’s difficult to answer, because I’m legally bound not to discuss the show, anyone I worked with, nor – in fact – anything in my life up to 2009. I don’t think we could remake Darkplace because, the last I heard, the tapes had been covered in 300 metric tonnes of industrial cement by Channel 4. In many ways the current state of the world can be entirely blamed on Darkplace failing to enter the mainstream. Had more people absorbed its teachings, we would have evolved as a species. But that’s mankind’s problem now, not mine.