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

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Had she stumbled, unknowingly, into an as-yet-unwritten horror novel of Nick’s own subconscious making? The legend, the master, the man - Marenghi is sure to deliver chills that will scare you to your bone jelly. Still, it's easy reading and the first section at least is a minor masterpiece of ludicrous pastiche. Presumably then something happened to him inside the house, which stopped him coming out again alive, because he was never seen again.

To be clear, that’s a rhetorical question and neither bears nor woods feature as key elements in the plot.It’s just as good as the tv show and I frequently found myself laughing out loud, it’s everything a fan of Garth Marenghi could want and I’d highly recommend it. It’s not for everyone, but if you’re the type of person who’s amused by bad writing or irrational stupidity this may be a good book for you. Horrormeister Garth Marenghi makes a triumphant comeback with three linked tales of shuddersome, mind-bending fear . A sound like a walking pile of twigs, or a loosened bag of discarded rubble that had somehow suddenly developed the ability to move.

Forced to fight his escaping imagination - now leaking out of his own brain - Nick must defend the town of Stalkford from his own fictional horrors, including avascular-necrosis-obsessed serial killer Nelson Strain and Nick's dreaded throppleganger, the Dark Third. Reads like Garth’s classic oeuvre of paperback horrors crossed with the X-Files, Faustian myth and bits of Manimal. I know the joke is centred in Garth's obvious "talent," that or not so much talent, but the biggest joke is having to struggle through almost 300 pages worth of it.

Given that Jacinta had yet to forgive me for press-ganging our daughter into an early proofreading career, it would hardly come as a surprise to her if I suddenly recommenced hostilities out of the blue. The humour works on so many levels and reaches a form of genius and it genuinely pushes some limits in the horror genre (immediately deflated by asides and arguments about editing).

They’re horror cliches, but cliches work for a reason and in the hands of a good author these stories could work.Even better is his obvious confusion where he reads out the table of contents and the copyright page. Fans of Garth Marenghi's Darkplace will inevitably hear his unique voice while reading, but for a proper experience that follows naturally from the TV show format, you should listen to this one. Back then, with first Fright Knight and then Netherhead – and Darkplace, in due course – Holness wasn’t alone, but working with an estimable gathering of stage talent.