Matthew Holness

Get the audiobook version, it's all about the delivery here - and enjoy the novellas with some respite inbetween, it's a great joke but it's the same joke. Darkplace could alternate between the show and the mockumentary to give variety to the format and jokes. Terrortome can't, although there's a metafictional element of author's notes.
The satire is hilariously spot on for that special era of 80s to late 90s horror, particularly Stephen King, but not infrequently the many also-rans, Dean show more Koontz and even Clive Barker. By way of In the Mouth of Madness.
Garth writes his wafer thin alter egos like the great Stephen King/Richard Bachman-writing-about-a-writer, almost directly riffing on The Dark Half and some of the more rectocranial writing from The Dark Tower series, and I'm not sure that translates beyond that age group and readers who didn't grow up with those books and egos. But sometimes it's the simple beauty of the hapless but self-assured writer concocting sentences like "seeing as you can’t walk normally, as usual", or the (many) struggles to find the right word, proper phrasing, verbal precision, way of saying the thing, that transcends genre mockery into general bookish gripes, something that anyone might enjoy. show less

It takes actual skill and genre knowledge to write such riotously and hilarously awful horror, and more to read it in-character. If, like me, your favourite bits of his Darkspace were the introductions and readings by Marenghi himself, then this is perfect for you.

One of, if not the best horror story involving two monkeys written by one man, Garth Marenghi, who doesn't really exist, except as a fictional author of real tales of terror, like this book, which is real, unlike the monkeys which aren't (being the manifestation of Marenghi's horrific imagination).

Bad horror, the worst horror, seriously terrible horror - the real monster is the horror writer, and not just for his writing. Once more Garth Marenghi unleashes the horrors his literary creations on an unsuspecting world as his horrific literary creation Nick Steen unleashes the horrors of his literary creations on an unsuspecting world. Whether its crashing planes or getting kidnapped or being used in an abominable scientific experiment that grants him the power of a god to crash a plane, show more Nick Steen is certainly the viewpoint character for a lot of ths book. You'll scream with laughter. Until you die. Laughing. show less