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Matthew Holness
Matthew Holness

Matthew Holness

  • Actor and writer

Garth Marenghi's This Bursted Earth

Garth Marenghi's This Bursted Earth
By Matthew Holness

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

  • Publisher: Coronet
  • Pages: 320
  • Catalogue: 9781399721936

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