Garth Marenghi announces final book in TerrorTome trilogy and tour
- Garth Marenghi's This Bursted Earth will be published on 30th October
- Garth Marenghi's This Bursted Earth Book Tour will run from October 2025 to May 2026. Ticketmaster
- The character says: "If you possess a brain, you will want to fill that brain with my visions"
The final book in Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome trilogy will be published in October, written again by creator Matthew Holness.
Garth Marenghi's This Bursted Earth continues the adventures of horror author Nick Steen, who has appeared in Marenghi's two previous bestselling titles, Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome and Garth Marenghi's Incarcerat. In this third volume o' terrifying tales, Nick is having visions: a sinister black steeple, eerie Catherine wheels in the sky that aren't remotely Catherine wheels... plus a giant skeleton with a moustache. Are they omens? Auguries? Portents of things to come? (Spoiler: yes, they are.) For Nick'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?
Following the runaway success of his critically acclaimed Terrortome and Incarcerat tours, which sold over 50,000 tickets across the UK and Europe, Holness will undertake Garth Marenghi's This Bursted Earth Book Tour between October 2025 and May 2026.
The character Garth Marenghi says: "If you possess a brain, you will want to fill that brain with my visions. Specifically, my visions of a Bursted Earth. Said visions can be witnessed via the act of reading my related tome Garth Marenghi's This Bursted Earth. This book follows my 2022 novel Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome which was an instant Sunday Times bestseller and Garth Marenghi's Incarcerat in 2023, both now followed in turn by the aforesaid volume Garth Marenghi's This Bursted Earth. The full title, by the way, is Garth Marenghi's This Bursted Earth. Not Garth Marenghi's Bursted Earth or Garth Marenghi's Earth That Was Bursted. It's Garth Marenghi's This Bursted Earth."
The book is available to pre-order now. Tickets for the tour go on sale on Wednesday 2nd April at 10am. A full list of dates are below. Tickets are on sale from sites including Ticketmaster
October 2025
Mon 20: Norwich Playhouse, Norwich (Envisionings in Progress)
Tue 28: City Varieties Music Hall, Leeds
Wed 29: The Lowry (Quays), Salford
Fri 31: Tyne Theatre & Opera House, Newcastle
November 2025
Sat 1: The Queen's Hall, Edinburgh
Sun 2: Eden Court, Inverness
Thu 6: The Brewery Arts Centre (Theatre), Kendal
Fri 7: Lancaster Grand Theatre, Lancaster
Sat 8: The Plowright Theatre, Scunthorpe
Sun 9: The Leadmill, Sheffield
Thu 13: Ipswich Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Fri 14: Lyceum Theatre, Crewe
Sat 15: Bristol Beacon, Bristol
Sun 16: Reading Arts (Concert Hall), Reading
Tue 18: Cambridge Junction (J2), Cambridge
Fri 21: Royal & Derngate (Royal), Northampton
Sat 22: Scarborough Spa Theatre, Scarborough
Fri 28: Exeter Corn Exchange, Exeter
February 2026
Wed 4: Taunton Brewhouse, Taunton
Thu 5: Komedia, Bath
Fri 6: Fareham Live, Fareham
Sat 7: The Wyvern Theatre, Swindon
Wed 11: MAST Mayflower Studios, Southampton
Fri 20: Hazlitt Arts Centre (Hazlitt Theatre), Maidstone
Sat 21: Leas Cliff Hall, Folkestone
Fri 27: The Castle Theatre, Wellingborough
Sat 28: Warwick Arts Centre (Theatre), Coventry
March 2026
Sat 7: Palace Theatre, Southend-on-Sea
Sat 14: Lichfield Garrick, Lichfield
Wed 18: The Atkinson, Southport
Thu 19: Old Fire Station, Carlisle
Fri 20: Caird Hall, Dundee
Fri 27: The Dome, Brighton
Sat 28: Grand Opera House, York
April 2026
Sat 18: Town Hall, Birmingham
Fri 24: Cardiff New Theatre, Cardiff
Sat 25: The London Palladium, London
May 2026
Sun 3: The Pavilion Theatre, Glasgow
Garth Marenghi's This Bursted Earth
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? Portenderings 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 imaginata of Horror Fiction's Grand Frightener Garth Marenghi, author of Sunday Times-best-selling Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome and Garth Marenghi's Incarcerat, come three freshly rancid tales of... st=8443]This Bursted Earth[/st].
First published: Thursday 30th October 2025