Garth Marenghi: how the Edinburgh award winner found his Darkplace
Last modified on Tue 2 Mar 2021 07.51 EST Garth Marenghi, serious horror writer and self-described “master of the macabre”, was born in 1950 in east London. Yet it wasn’t until the mid-90s that he first appeared in public, reciting a passage from one of his many horror novels (he’s “one of the few people … who’ve written more books than they’ve read”) at a Cambridge University cabaret night. Long before Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace – the Channel 4 series broadcast in 2004 – the prolific author was a star of the stage. Matthew Holness, the writer, actor and director behin...
Source: theguardian.com