Matthew Holness @MrHolness Twitter profile

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Matthew Holness

@MrHolness

2 years

Coming in November in hardback, ebook and audio: three spine-shattering tales of fright from Garth Marenghi’s long-lost multi-volume epic: TerrorTome.

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3 years

US people, GARTH MARENGHI’S DARKPLACE is now streaming on *coughs* Amazon. They’ve surrounded us with gas as a mark of respect.

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Matthew Holness

@MrHolness

2 years

The Master of Darkdom returns…

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Matthew Holness

@MrHolness

3 months

Apparently Darkplace first aired twenty years ago today. I had no idea. I don’t remember it airing or where I even was. Time destroys all.

British Comedy Guide

@BritishComedy

3 months

The exceptional Garth Marenghi's Darkplace - starring Matthew @MrHolness , Matt Berry ( @porksmith ), @AliceLowe & @RichardAyoade - started on television 20 years ago today. Article:

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Matthew Holness

@MrHolness

1 year

After 15 years, Garth Marenghi returns to British television (a changed medium, and not for the better) TONIGHT! 👇🏻

Russell Howard

@russellhoward

1 year

In his first tv appearance in over 15 years, legendary horror writer Garth Marenghi ( @MrHolness ) returns to our screens on tonight’s show reading a passage from his terrifying festive horror novel. Join us tonight at 10pm on Sky Max.

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@MrHolness

2 years

Apparently Darkplace first aired 18 years ago today. I genuinely don’t remember it happening so let that be a warning that time destroys all.

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@MrHolness

3 months

The nerve.

Channel 4

@Channel4

3 months

Garth Marenghi's Darkplace premiered 20 years ago today. Happy anniversary @MrHolness @RichardAyoade @alicelowe @porksmith !

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@MrHolness

2 years

Garth will accept a cheque.

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Matthew Holness

@MrHolness

10 months

Just sell it, you prick.

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Matthew Holness

@MrHolness

8 months

Coming this Hallow’een’een…

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Matthew Holness

@MrHolness

1 year

Next week, Garth Marenghi returns to the stage to solve society’s ills.

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Matthew Holness

@MrHolness

8 months

BREAKING NEWS FROM GARTH MARENGHI

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Matthew Holness

@MrHolness

2 years

Pilgrims. Thy signed copies await ye/thee.

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Matthew Holness

@MrHolness

7 months

Soon, traveller…

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3 years

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Matthew Holness

@MrHolness

2 years

Watching ‘The Young Ones’ and this is bugging me. Is this painting of an oil rig famous, or did we (Darkplace) inadvertently re-use the same prop?

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@MrHolness

6 months

Big thanks to Faye, who presented Garth with this incredible crocheted Skipper the Eye-Child.

Faye Pickering

@craftedbyfae

6 months

Please tell your good friend Garth Marenghi that this post has over 600 likes 😳 @MrHolness

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Matthew Holness

@MrHolness

1 year

Coming 31st October… GARTH MARENGHI’S INCARCERAT

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@MrHolness

5 years

First Garth script we ever wrote. Impact title font. Tab issues. Abandoned after scene seven.

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Matthew Holness

@MrHolness

2 years

The Archduke o’ Darkdom returneth. ⁩

Garth Marenghi: ‘Many writers cite me as an influence ... and I will be suing them all’

After changing horror for ever with his TV series Darkplace, the dream weaver and horror novelist disappeared for two decades. Now he returns with a chilling new novel, TerrorTome, and some strong...

www.theguardian.com

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@MrHolness

1 year

Garth Marenghi on writing females.

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@MrHolness

2 years

UPDATE: Garth Marenghi’s TERRORTOME will now be published on November 3rd. Signed copies still available ⁦ @ForbiddenPlanet ⁩

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Matthew Holness

@MrHolness

2 years

Garth Marenghi’s TerrorTome AudioDome is now available.

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Matthew Holness

@MrHolness

2 years

POSSUM’s now on UK Prime if you’ve not seen. If you have, here are some of my location pics to justify this tweet.

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@MrHolness

1 year

Sat Navs won’t work in the Apocalypse. Let Garth Marenghi, Tour Guide o’ the ‘Geddon, steer you through The End Times.

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Matthew Holness

@MrHolness

6 months

Thanks to all who came to see Garth Marenghi at Stratford Literary Festival last night. Especially Cate who made him this incredible miniature writing study.

Stratford Literary Festival

@StratLitFest

6 months

Incredible and beautiful miniature of #garthmarenghi ’s desk created by fan Cate and given to the great man himself. Astonishing! @MrHolness

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Matthew Holness

@MrHolness

3 years

Coming soon - Renwick ‘Exploded’ Playset with detachable head, plus spade and mop accessories.

Readful Things

@Readful_Things

3 years

Here are some Darkplace figures I've made. A new Dr. Liz Asher figure coming soon. #darkplace

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@MrHolness

4 years

“It stood/slumped on rotten haunches like an out-of-date chicken, plucked to death, beckoning bird-like to Belinda Bevan, newly-appointed Hen executive to Sir Ben Cockerel, supplier of sacrificial chickens to the Black Black Magic market.” Garth Marenghi’s ‘The Squawking’

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Matthew Holness

@MrHolness

1 year

Garth is delighted to announce that GARTH MARENGHI’S TERRORTOME is an instant Sunday Times Bestseller! Massive thanks to all of you who have bought copies. Read. Learn. Evolve.

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@MrHolness

1 year

It begins… (again)

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Matthew Holness

@MrHolness

2 years

Fear the Reaper.

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Matthew Holness

@MrHolness

6 months

Garth Marenghi on culinary horror. These two hosts, meanwhile, are standing on boxes.

Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster

@OffMenuOfficial

6 months

💀 EPISODE 212 OUT NOW 💀 with… GARTH MARENGHI Listen, review, subscribe: 🍽 Apple: 🍽 Spotify: 🍽 Acast:

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Matthew Holness

@MrHolness

2 years

Thanks too, to @WaterstonesLPL and all who dropped by to hear Garth rant while he signed.

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Matthew Holness

@MrHolness

8 years

The Revenant is basically three hours of the Monty Python "It's..." man.

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Matthew Holness

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4 years

POSSUM artwork available soon, signed by Joe Avery.

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Matthew Holness

@MrHolness

2 years

I once failed an audition for a character described as being “exactly like Matthew Holness”.

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Matthew Holness

@MrHolness

3 years

My new Red Dead horse froze in the sky and then, confused and frightened, shat. 2020

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Matthew Holness

@MrHolness

2 years

1985 originals withdrawn by parental lobby after “burns”.

Readful Things

@Readful_Things

2 years

Here are a few Garth Marenghi's Darkplace pieces that I've made

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Matthew Holness

@MrHolness

2 months

“Kudos to all who witnessed my terrifying physical on-stage transformation in Dublin and London this weekend, but that’s it. Show’s over. Disperse. I now dream.” Garth Marenghi

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Matthew Holness

@MrHolness

3 months

In the 20th Anniversary year of his ground-breaking TV series GARTH MARENGHI’S DARKPLACE (though he himself celebrates the 19th and 23rd), Garth Marenghi returns to the stage THIS WEEK with a book-reading tour of his latest chiller INCARCERAT. Book now, pilgrim…

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@MrHolness

5 years

Happy Halloween, pilgrim. Here’s a rare clip from our pilot episode, GARTH MARENGHI’S ‘THE TOLD’, directed by Steve Bendelack.

Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace – Funeral

hungryman.com

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@MrHolness

3 years

From ‘Garth Marenghi’s Fright Knight’ to ‘Garth Marenghi’s Netherhead’. A history of the stage travesties.

Garth Marenghi: how the Edinburgh award winner found his Darkplace

Our series exploring the stage origins of hit comedies continues with the cult hospital horror show that scared up audiences to become a fringe sensation

www.theguardian.com

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Matthew Holness

@MrHolness

6 months

Except that I was there and witnessed it. So it did happen, you ‘it didn’t happen’ bellends.

Didn’t Happen of the Year Awards

@_DHOTYA

6 months

Life advice from the 11 year old in Primark

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Matthew Holness

@MrHolness

2 years

@MikeEverest7 Garth is.

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Matthew Holness

@MrHolness

1 year

All fire exits are locked. You are trapped in your seat. The only way out is to buy Garth’s book. GARTH MARENGHI’S INCARCERAT. Book NOW* *(i.e. a ticket to the live reading. The book itself isn’t out till Halloween)

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Matthew Holness

@MrHolness

3 months

20 years after Darkplace redefined the possibilities of the TV Horror repeat (mainly balls to the wall horror, plus more balls), Garth Marenghi tours INCARCERAT, his new book, answering your questions (max 1 per person within a strict ten second timeframe) about his dead cast.

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Matthew Holness

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4 years

Still my favourite comedy sketch of all time. Thank you, Terry Jones.

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Matthew Holness

@MrHolness

1 year

It’s finally down. Thank you SO much to everyone who reported it. Now time to get the upload removed as well. Much appreciated, folks.

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Matthew Holness

@MrHolness

7 years

In aid of #authorsforgrenfelltower here’s where you can bid for Garth Marenghi's official Dr Rick Dagless lab coat.

161: Official Dr Rick Dagless lab coat from ‘Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace’

ITEM: Official ‘Dr Rick Dagless’ lab coat (pictured) as worn by author Garth Marenghi (Matthew Holness) in Channel 4’s ‘Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace’. Only two of …

authorsforgrenfelltower.wordpress.com

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Matthew Holness

@MrHolness

4 years

Garth approveth.

Keenan Tamblyn

@KeenanTamblyn

4 years

went as author, dreamweaver, visionary plus actor Garth Marenghi/ @MrHolness for Halloween this year, #DarkPlace4ever

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Matthew Holness

@MrHolness

6 months

To promote INCARCERAT, and for a hefty fee, Garth visited @EscapeEntLdn and tried to dispatch some readers.

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4 years

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Matthew Holness

@MrHolness

2 years

Garth is going on tour.

Live Nation UK

@LiveNationUK

2 years

NEW: Garth Marenghi, Grand Archduke O’ Darkdom, returns with a book tour to mark the release of his long-lost multi-volume horror epic TerrorTome 😱 Book tickets this Friday at 10am! Tickets for Stratford-upon-Avon are up for grabs now 👉 @MrHolness

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Matthew Holness

@MrHolness

6 years

It’s out of the bag. POSSUM is released today in select cinemas and on demand.

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Matthew Holness

@MrHolness

3 years

Recently filmed a small role in ‘Bloods’ and was blessed to work again with stunt coordinator and Garth’s personal stunt double Andreas Petrides. A man who lives, laughs and leaps at danger.

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Matthew Holness

@MrHolness

4 years

Lost my horse in Red Dead today. We tumbled from a cliff. He got trapped halfway down, dying on the cliff, screaming. I climbed up the cliff-face time and again to get to him, but slipped back down each time. He died before I could send him to sleep. I have tuberculosis. I smoke.

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3 years

The papers have arrived, sir.

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@MrHolness

3 months

US folk - GARTH MARENGHI’S TERRORTOME is available in bookshops, or ‘stores’ if you insist, on your side of the Atlantic (the wrong side) from today.

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@MrHolness

1 year

The Archduke O’ Darkdom profounds.

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Matthew Holness

@MrHolness

4 years

Bored and want more? My short films can be watched online here. Plus Darkplace is available everywhere for fucking free.

SMUTCH

Smutch - Sky Halloween Shorts 2016 Written and directed by Matthew Holness

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Matthew Holness

@MrHolness

1 year

Writers. Hard as it feels at times, NEVER work for free.

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Matthew Holness

@MrHolness

1 year

Appalling treatment towards screenwriters is now the norm. Bullying writers to work upfront for no pay is common practise, and hugely detrimental to their mental health. The WGA strike is important.

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Matthew Holness

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2 years

Ten years since I parked this Allegro outside Margate’s Dreamland for ‘A Gun For George’, the best filming experience of my entire life. Thanks to my brilliant cast and crew. For those who care, Terry’s still out there somewhere, alone, but will return one day.

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Matthew Holness

@MrHolness

8 months

I hate my iPhone. I wish I’d never bought it. I hate it. I hate all the fucking swipe shit. I hate my iPhone and one day I will smash it to fucking pieces. It scratched on the first day. And btw, no-one’s getting this iPhone that I hate. I will kill it first.

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Matthew Holness

@MrHolness

2 years

Pre-order an exclusive signed copy of Garth Marenghi’s TerrorTome from @ForbiddenPlanet :

Garth Marenghi’s TerrorTome (Exclusive Signed... @ ForbiddenPlanet.com

Dare you crack open the TerrorTome? (Mind the spine) When horror writer Nick Steen gets sucked into a cursed typewriter by the terrifying Type-Face, Dark Lord of the Prolix, the hellish visions...

forbiddenplanet.com

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@MrHolness

1 year

GARTH MARENGHI’S TERRORTOME LIVE TOUR is done and dusted. Sincere thanks to all who came along to the gigs, bought books and lost their collective bejesus. GARTH MARENGHI’S INCARCERAT LIVE TOUR commences this Autumn.

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6 months

Soon.

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1 year

Time for FEAR.

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@MrHolness

3 months

Soon it will be Springtime, and Horror will once more stalk the land… Garth Marenghi’s Incarcerat Live Book Tour continues next week.

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@MrHolness

1 year

Apologies to Glasgow TERRORTOME attendees. Your individual complimentary shortbread ‘peace’ offering from Garth Marenghi (strictly one slice each) was stolen by a Scotch Mob at baggage retrieval.

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1 year

Thanks to all who attended Garth Marenghi’s TerrorTome in Liverpool tonight. And thanks to Garth for staring down an emerging Hell Demon, thus saving the lives (and souls) of his audience. York tomorrow.

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7 months

Behold Garth Marenghi’s Prolegomenon.

Waterstones

@Waterstones

7 months

Horror icon Garth Marenghi doesn't sign books, doesn't like the word 'blog', and definitely isn't giving away 'content' for free.Thanks to watertight contractual obligations we're proud to share Garth Marenghi's *checks notes* PROLEGOMENON: @MrHolness

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@MrHolness

1 year

Time for Garth to square things with Glasgow.

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@MrHolness

2 years

Garth Marenghi’s TerrorTome is published TODAY. Protect it from rain.

Garth Marenghi’s TerrorTome

Dare you crack open the TerrorTome? (Mind the spine) When horror writer Nick Steen gets sucked into a cursed typewriter by the terrifying Type-Face, Dark...

www.hachette.co.uk

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Matthew Holness

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1 year

That’s right, punk. It’s my original unused 1985 Judge Dredd ⁦ @2000AD ⁩ promotional sticker.

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@MrHolness

2 years

Garth Marenghi, Grand Teller O’ Darktale, returneth to rant exclusively for and at @empiremagazine

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@NickdeSemlyen

2 years

Author. Dreamweaver. Visionary. Plus Empire contributor. Yes, you read that right, none other than GARTH MARENGHI (!!!) has finally broken his silence to write a revelatory piece for us about his unmade film projects. Many thanks to @MrHolness for being our go-between.

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@MrHolness

10 months

“This is the album cover I would have put out with that band I was never in because I couldn’t play that instrument I always wanted to play but which I now have ten of on a wall and which no-one would have played with me anyway.”

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6 years

POSSUM will be released in UK cinemas on 26th October.

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3 years

Apparently Amazon have cut out the ad break sections, so, you know, other streaming services and dvd options are available etc

Matthew Holness

@MrHolness

3 years

US people, GARTH MARENGHI’S DARKPLACE is now streaming on *coughs* Amazon. They’ve surrounded us with gas as a mark of respect.

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Matthew Holness

@MrHolness

5 months

Almost time for a cosy Christmas catch-up with Mr Horatio Nibbles (1971)

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@MrHolness

1 year

Thanks to everyone who came out to see Garth Marenghi’s TerrorTome at the Cambridge Junction, and special thanks to Jerome Smith, star of ‘Scotch Mist’, for fielding audience questions and paying back the day’s work he still owed Garth from Darkplace.

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Matthew Holness

@MrHolness

6 months

I’ll (Matthew, not Garth) be talking all things Weird at the British Library this Tuesday evening. Details below.

BritishLibraryEvents

@eventsBL

6 months

We’re excited to announce Garth Marenghi creator @MrHolness joins @britishlibrary TALES OF THE WEIRD event 14 Nov with @JuliaArmfield @zarastubbs_ @DrMatthewSweet @TanyaKirk and @BL_Publishing Online tickets still available

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3 years

Can’t they just let him back on for two minutes so we can witness the implosion, then take him off again?

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8 months

The Bear is total crap. Bite me.

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6 months

It begins. (Shortly)

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1 year

Garth approacheth, Dublin.

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3 months

“I leave Peterborough shaken, panicked and logically challenged. The city, obviously. I remain compact, steadfast and imminently mind-blowing. Next stop - Ipswich.” Garth Marenghi

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Hallowee’een has arrived… GARTH MARENGHI’S INCARCERAT is out now.

Garth Marenghi's Incarcerat

'I warn you now, Do...read this book' THE LOCHGELLY SENTINEL 'A bold move by Hodder' PUBLISHING QUARTERLY Garth Marenghi - Frightenerman, Darkscribe, Doo...

www.hodder.co.uk

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2 years

SOON.

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3 years

POSSUM is now available to watch on @Shudder_UK

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2 years

Have now finished the entirety of Carl Sagan’s Cosmos and seen nothing better on TV. A moving and humane life lesson from your favourite teacher at school. Mind widened. Soul soothed. Sanity preserved. God bless science.

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6 months

GARTH MARENGHI’S INCARCERAT is also available as an audiobook. To hear how an audiobook works, click on the sample clip below. Incredibly, the words are now *alive*…

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8 months

Actually, tell a lie, I’ve watched the entirety of The Bear now and it’s actually incredible. A masterpiece. The greatest show ever made.

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1 year

Thanks to all who came to see Garth Marenghi at the Glasgow Fruit Market. Gifts of shortbread were exchanged and he is currently staying the night.

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3 years

You can now watch POSSUM on @Shudder_UK

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6 years

First image from my upcoming horror film POSSUM.

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@MrHolness

1 month

Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace fans - here’s that in-depth delve into the show’s sound design with audio genius Nigel Heath you were waiting for.

Pushing Faders

@pushingfaders_

1 month

Joining me on this episode of the podcast is BAFTA winning Re-Recording Mixer @NigelHeath to talk about his work on such things as Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace and Downton Abbey!

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