Garth Marenghi

Garth Marenghi

This Bursted Earth

After changing the horror genre forever with his 2023 Sunday Times bestseller Incarcerat, horror provocateur Garth Marenghi has announced the latest book of his Nick Steen series, This Bursted Earth, as well as an accompanying book tour which will feature shows in Cork Opera House on Thursday 9th April 2026, followed by Dublin’s 3Olympia Theatre on Friday 10th April 2026 and Belfast's Ulster Hall on Saturday 11th April 2026

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Horror author Nick Steen is having visions… A sinister Black Steeple; eerie lights in the sky that look like a Catherine wheel but are not remotely a Catherine wheel… Plus a giant skeleton with a moustache. Are they omens? Auguries? Portenderings of things to come? (Spoiler - yes, they are).

For Nick Steen’s imagination is bursting out of his brain and threatening to burst in turn the entirety of Stalkford.

Can Nick stop the aforesaid bursting? Or have things already slightly burst regardless? And will there ultimately be a grand finale to this three-book series (aka a trilogy) or a more open-ended conclusion in order to leave potential room for further sequels? (That, btw, will ultimately be Garth’s decision.)

From the fevered imaginata of Horror Fiction’s Grand Frightener Garth Marenghi, author of Sunday Times-Bestselling Garth Marenghi’s TerrorTome and Garth Marenghi’s Incarcerat, come three freshly rancid tales of…

…THIS BURSTED EARTH…*

“So dense with brilliant jokes that it cannot safely be read while drinking hot liquid” -Inews.co.uk

“puts the ‘boo’ into book tour” – The Guardian

“had the crowd hooting and hanging, insatiably, on every line.” -The Telegraph

“Seriously, buy this book.” – ThisisHorror.co.uk

“A pitch-perfect parody of terrible genre writing” – Chortle

 

About Garth Marenghi

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.