Garth Marenghi

This Bursted Earth Book Tour

thursday 19 march 2026

£20.00 +bf

doors 7.00 pm : show 7.30 pm : ends 9.30 pm

14 years & over*

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Garth Marenghi This Bursted Earth Book Tour

“ 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

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

Hardback copies of This Bursted Earth will be available for purchase on the day. Be warned: signings are strictly time-limited. You’ll get no more than one minute with the world’s greatest Frighternerman, Darkscribe, Doomsage (plus Man-Shee) before you’re moved on and/or manhandled.

• The venue and bar will be open from 6.45pm
• *Proof of age may be requested. The acceptable forms of ID are: Valid passport, a photo driving licence or a proof of age card such as the PASS card from the national Proof of Age Standards Scheme. No refunds will be issued for anyone under the age restriction stated above.

14 and 15 year olds will need to be under the supervision of an adult and each adult may accompany a maximum of 2 children.

16 and 17 year olds may attend but must leave the venue once the show has ended.

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