Garth Marenghi's This Bursted Earth: the third volume in his bestselling TerrorTome series
By (Author) Garth Marenghi
Hodder & Stoughton
Coronet Books
28th October 2025
30th October 2025
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Horror, ghost stories and supernatural fiction
Fiction: pastiche
400
Width 156mm, Height 240mm
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-bestselling Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome and Garth Marenghi's Incarcerat, come three freshly rancid tales of . . . . . . THIS BURSTED EARTHGarth Marenghi was born in the past, graduated from his local comprehensive (now bulldozed) with some O levels in subjects. He taught for nine years at his local library reading group before becoming a full-time horror writer. He has published numerous novels of terror (too numerous to list, nay count), over five hundred short stories, and has edited thirty anthologies of his own work, which have all received the Grand Master of Darkdom Award. 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. He commenced work on TerrorTome during the late 1980s, continued on it alone and unaided by editors throughout the 1990s, and on into the early 2000s, then the mid-2000s, and has only now found a publisher brave enough to unleash its chilling portendings. He is an honorary fellow.