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

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Darkplace was a first TV gig for a generation of British comedy talent. Richard Ayoade played Dean Learner, Marenghi’s unscrupulous and dandyish agent; Matt Berry played thespian Todd Rivers and Alice Lowe was Madeleine Wool, who sadly disappeared somewhere in Eastern Europe before the show’s rediscovery. Their friends Noel Fielding and Julian Barratt of The Mighty Boosh popped up, too.

Garth Marenghi: ‘Sorry Garth, I apologise.’ He knows what he’s done. I can’t say yet whether I’ll accept it, but an apology would be a start. It has been 20 years since Channel 4 aired Darkplace, but its cult appeal remains so intense that even today Garth Marenghi’s fans ask detailed questions about very specific plot points. It gives the Q&A segment of his TerrorTome book tour the air of a horror convention, with devotees in thrall to every last detail of canon. Must Read Horror Articles 23 October 2023 Welcome to Must Read Horror, where we search the internet… He devoured horror novels, “to the point where my parents were genuinely called in and asked if I was all right”; he jumps up from his chair to show off a copy of an illustrated guide to the supernatural which first captured his imagination. When he passed the 11 plus, his reward was Peter Cushing’s autobiography. He once spotted Cushing in a bookshop and asked for an autograph (he was lovely, but horrified that boys of eight and 10 were watching his films). Holness, now 47, grew up in Whitstable, happy and secure with his parents and brother. Nonetheless, horror seemed to be everywhere: he was spooked by bleak news bulletins and the kinds of public information films that warned children of electrocution by pylons and drowning in quarries, and he became fascinated by what Marenghi would call “the fantastique”.Controls are responsive and the motion on the screen looks seamless, but the setup of the control takes a certain amount of time. Terrordrome can be a deep combat game - considering there’s so much lore surrounding its characters - but its dependency on button recall rather than a spontaneous gaming experience (like resorting to button mashing when you play Mortal Kombat or Tekken) put a damper on the fun. Is that all I hear you ask, no that is most definitely not all. There are far too many occurrences, unnerving events than I could list here so you were wrong to ask that. Bang wrong. Marenghi (Author. Dreamweaver. Visionary. Plus actor.) strikes gold once more on this; surely his 500th publishing. Discover these stories in a new light with the main protagonist Alex Van Helsing as he ventures his way to take down Dracula once and for all whilst meeting new allies and enemies along the way with playable characters like Frankenstein's Monster, Bigfoot, Bloody Mary and much more like some original monsters to create one of the most unique horror crossovers using as much as we can in the general public media to avoid lawsuits.

This is a movie that resists categorisation: in many ways, it feels like political cinema from an earlier age, a rough-and-ready document in which the Terrordome is something like Godard’s Alphaville or the alternative New York from Lizzie Borden’s Born in Flames. But interestingly, Onwurah is also engaging with more mainstream, commercial cinema and music, aiming to create a film like Escape from New York or Boyz N the Hood: a studio movie made with arthouse resources. At all events, this is a film that wouldn’t be pigeonholed. Maybe we’ve needed a quarter-century for its spiky refusal to compromise to be understood. It’s a film that speaks more to 2021 than 1995. From the mind of horror master Garth Marenghi: a masterful multi-volume horror masterpiece thirty years in the making...Why Early Access?“We wanted to release on Early Access so our audience can try the game out for themselves and help us support us later down the road.