Garth Marenghi: This Bursted Earth

It seems pretty apparent by now that a second season of Matthew Holness’s sublimely preposterous haunted hospital soap opera Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace is not going to be forthcoming. However, Holness’s monumentally self-important, subtext-loathing horror author Marenghi lives on and he’s got a new book out: This Bursted Earth, a trio of monumentally overripe tales of dread. And he’s got an in character book tour, which is about as close as you’re going to get to Darkplace in this day and age and is arguably a more fun way to consume Holness’ contemporary work than actually reading an entire book of deliberately bad horror.