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TerrorTome: The perfectly imperfect, hilarious return of the Titan of Terror

Spoof horror maestro Garth Marenghi delivers a trio of interlocking dark tales full of bathos and banalities

Garth Marenghi: a master of bathos, Marenghi is constantly undercutting the horror with banalities

It’s been nearly 20 years since conceited hack writer Garth Marenghi first graced our television screens in Darkplace – a mockumentary about a lost 1980s horror show that failed to gain an audience as it was “too radical”, according to the “dream weaver” himself.

Written by Richard Ayoade and Matthew Holness (who played Marenghi and has penned this book in character), the hokey programme was replete with continuity errors and stiffly delivered dialogue, intercut by ...