Garth Marenghi's Incarcerat: Volume 2 of TERRORTOME the SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

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Incarcerat is another perfect storm of terrible storytelling from the mind of Garth Marenghi (aka Matthew Holness). Will Nick regain control of his faculties, and crucially his particulars, before everyone, including his erstwhile editor Roz, dies horribly? But they get pretty stale if you read the whole novel at once (this is a common problem with comic novels). This tome (a compilation of three novellas) is particularly clever in that the meta literary stylings go deeper and further back than ever before in Garth's oeuvre.

PORTENTUM: In an escalating series of dangerous experiments, Nulltec tries to unleash and harness Nick’s psychic powers. Garth Marenghi, the renowned horror author famous for his spine-chilling works, is excited to announce a 14-date book tour starting in October 2023 for his latest novel, Incarcerat.

I mean I'm giving this five stars because it's the best, bad horror writing you will ever enjoy (well, I say enjoy), not that it really matters because as Garth himself says at the end of the audiobook he doesn't care how people rate or review his books. Oh, and one more thing: If we can have a huge amount of time devoted to Roz - can we please have some input from one of the finest characters in Merenghi's world; Thornton Reed?

It perhaps gets a little overstuffed with ideas in a couple of places, but its worth it for the middle novella, which is an astonishingly good (and very funny) gothic / folk horror pisstake. The three tales are joyously distinct this time around and Garth’s stabs at gothic horror and dream-infesting boogeymen (a priapic twist on Candyman and Freddy Krueger) are particularly fun experiences. As a huge fan of the original series Garth Marenghi's Darkplace and it's accompanying sister series Man To Man With Dean Learner I'm a huge fan of the character and his ludicrous tropes and writing choices, which are in fact a key part of the original joke.And the whole focus seems to have shifted in some essential way from writing a comedy AS this character to writing a work of actual sci fi ABOUT this character.

But this second book feels much more like a man with a story to tell than a comedian trying to make me laugh. In addition, you will learn important things about the R-Complex that will change your view of humanity and its place in the universe. Has even more of a suspicious amount of genital trauma than the first book, as well as more death, gore, excrement and general horror theming. Come down the travelators, exit Sainsbury's, turn right and follow the pedestrianised walkway to Crown Walk and turn right - and Coles will be right in front of you.Another brilliantly funny pastiche of 80s horror novels that also happens to be a set of three great horror stories in their own right.

Believing the ever-extending power outage was a curse that could only be lifted by finishing the book, I powered through Aarabella Mathers and The Randyman. And there’s an admirable boldness to sidelining the Marenghi analogue character for a vast swath of this, which allows for it to focus its lens a bit more sharply on both an emotional through-line about fatherly duty and also subverting at least some of the sexist tropes it’s homagjng. I didn't think anything could top previous offerings from his oeuvre such as Guygon vs Galgon and Randyman IV: Nightstench but Incarcerat is even more radical, risky and dangerous than them combined. He wrote, directed and starred in Garth Marenghi's Darkplace for the Peruvian market, which subsequently aired on Channel 4 and has not been repeated due to its radical and polemic content.

By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Another enjoyable romp through purple prose and ludicrous scenarios, but taking itself seriously enough as a meta literary enterprise that it succeeds on its own terms.