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Mon 30 Mar 2026
Garth Marenghi: This Bursted Earth Book Tour
Comedy

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? Portendings 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 imagination 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*

‘Puts the ‘boo’ into book tour’
Guardian

‘had the crowd hooting and hanging, insatiably, on every line’
Telegraph

‘A pitch-perfect parody of terrible genre writing’
Chortle

*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

    Date
    Mon 30 Mar 2026
    19:30 - 22:00

    Ticket price

    £24.00
    Accessibility
    Relaxed
    Accessible toilet
    Audio tours
    Baby changing facilities
    Family friendly venue
    Hearing aid loop
    Orientation visits
    Wheelchair accessible
    Guide dogs welcome
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