To launch his new tome Incarcerat

Garth Marenghi has announced a short book tour for his latest horror novel, Incarcerat.

Chortle last week reported how Matthew Holness’s alter-ego was publishing the follow-up up to his Sunday Times bestseller, Terrortome, on October 31.

Now promoters Live Nation have unveiled a 14-date tour, kicking off at the City Varieties Music Hall in Leeds on the eve of publication.

Incarcerat will see Nick Steen – the alter ego of Holness’s alter ego – abducted and imprisoned at Nulltec, a shadowy technological research facility ‘with excellent conference parking’.

There he is observed, tested and 'interfered with (physically) by a team of scientific experts led by Dr Barbara Nullman and other potentially fully-rounded characters determined to probe and "nullify" his escaping imagination.’

Publishers Hodder & Stoughton have also bought the rights to a third book, to be released at a later date.

TerrorTome was the first real book Holness wrote as Marenghi,  and he sold more than 27,000 tickets for the tour that accompanied that release.

Garth Marenghi started life as a stage show co-starring Richard Ayoade and Alice Lowe and directed by future Paddington director Paul King, which won the 2001 Perrier Award at the Edinburgh Fringe. The trio were then joined by Matt Berry to produce  the cult 2004 Channel 4 sitcom Garth Marenghi's Darkplace.

Tickets for the Incarcerat tour go on sale at 10am on Friday. Signed copies of Incarcerat are available from Waterstones now.

» Garth Marenghi tour dates and tickets.

» Review of TerrorTome book and live show

Published: 11 Apr 2023