Garth Marenghi’s TerrorTome: Dreamweaver, Doomsage, Sunday Times bestseller

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Garth is obviously not that author, but the result is that the plots aren’t as boring or perplexing as they might be were he to try something genuinely “revolutionary”. I love the show so I was excited to read this but the jokes got old real quick, especially anything to do with Roz and how useless women are.

The humour works on so many levels and reaches a form of genius and it genuinely pushes some limits in the horror genre (immediately deflated by asides and arguments about editing).

The final scenario with its recursive dark alter egos really left me wanting more and I really hope this is not the last we see of this fictional dark genius. First introduced in the short-lived cult classic Garth Marenghi's Darkplace almost twenty years ago, Marenghi's pretentiously hackneyed mind was always the main attraction. I don't care if that's not his name here, he says buddy 100% more than a normal person and wears a lab coat—that's Dr. But Matthew Holness, the man behind the mask, stayed true to billing, with a first half of excerpts from the book, and a second half taking questions from his assembled fans. Beware before partaking in these twisted delights, travelers, and don't forget to bring a change of shorts.

Nick Steen is the author of hundreds of horror books, when his storylines and ideas escape his mind and start wreaking havoc, Nick along with his editor Rox must find a way to fight back. Reads like Garth’s classic oeuvre of paperback horrors crossed with the X-Files, Faustian myth and bits of Manimal. He drew his former driving instructor’s Beretta 70 revolver, which he’d been given as a prize for passing, from the holster beneath his dressing gown (he’d come out in his pyjamas) and yanked open the Peugeot’s door. Not least (and perhaps the funniest) is the final 'chapter' where Garth reads out the copyright information.I couldn't get the footnotes to work on my Kindle and some of the redirects appeared to leave me in an alternate dimension, but I guess I should have expected that. Stepping outside the car, careful to avoid a big puddle, Capello stared out into the rainswept darkness.

I've put off reading it for a few months, knowing I could use it as a pick-me-up in a reading slump, and it definitely did that. It’s a pretty tricky thing to describe, so I’ve picked out some of my personal laugh out loud moments. 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? I got the audio book read by Garth himself, and I am glad I own it, as his pompous attitude reflects perfectly with the main character.Those wiper blades may or may not remain an issue and there’s plenty more car battery talk to sink your teeth into in the full book (but not literally, you’ll ruin the genuine foil embossed book cover). I initially struggled to find the sweet spot of the rhythm to his writing style which is hand-in-glove with the sardonic, sarcastic, at-times-puerile, clever humour utilised almost constantly. Though it should be said that the hardback (quite poorly typeset and copy-edited too) isn't much more than a souvenir, seeing as the audiobook is for surely the canonical version.