New dates to promote his next horror novel

Garth Marenghi has announced 18 extra dates in his book tour to promote his latest horror novel, Incarcerat.

Matthew Holness’s alter-ego is publishing the follow-up up to his Sunday Times bestseller, Terrortome, on October 31.

Now promoters Live Nation have unveiled  18 new tour dates in February and March, following the success of an initial 14 gigs, starting 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 new dates of the  Incarcerat tour go on sale at 10am on Friday.

» Garth Marenghi tour dates and tickets.

• Incarcerat is available from Amazon, priced £18.40

Published: 25 Sep 2023