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Garth Marenghi in a red hood surrounded by fire. Text reads: Garth Marenghi's This Bursted Earth Book Tour.

Garth Marenghi: This Bursted Earth Book Tour

Presented by Live Nation in association with Sophie Chapman Talent
£24
City Varieties Music Hall

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

Event information

Running Time: TBC

Age Guidance: 14+ (parental guidance recommended)

Triggers and advisories: TBC

Prices include a £2.50 booking fee and where applicable, a £1.20 charge for postage will be payable

Boxes at £27pp are available to book by calling the Box Office on 0113 243 0808

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