Garth Marenghi’s This Bursted Earth continues the adventures of horror author Nick Steen, who has appeared in Marenghi’s two previous bestselling titles, Garth Marenghi’s Terror Tome and Garth Marenghi’s Incarcerat. In this third volume o’ terrifying tales, Nick is having visions: a sinister black steeple, eerie Catherine wheels in the sky that aren’t remotely Catherine wheels… plus a giant skeleton with a moustache. Are they omens? Auguries? Portents of things to come? (Spoiler: yes, they are.) For Nick’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?

Garth Marenghi said:

“So dense with brilliant jokes that it cannot safely be read while drinking hot liquid”

- Inews.co.uk

“puts the ‘boo’ into book tour"

- The Guardian

“had the crowd hooting and hanging, insatiably, on every line.”

- The Telegraph

“If you possess a brain, you will want to fill that brain with my visions. Specifically, my visions of a Bursted Earth. Said visions can be witnessed via the act of reading my related tome, Garth Marenghi’s This Bursted Earth. This book follows my 2022 novel Garth Marenghi’s TerrorTome, which was an instant Sunday Times bestseller and Garth Marenghi’s Incarcerat in 2023, both now followed in turn by the aforesaid volume Garth Marenghi’s This Bursted Earth. The full title, by the way, is Garth Marenghi’s This Bursted Earth. Not Garth Marenghi’s Bursted Earth or Garth Marenghi’s Earth That Was Bursted. It’s Garth Marenghi’s This Bursted Earth.”

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Grand Opera House York

Cumberland Street, York YO1 9SW

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Not originally intended to be a theatre, the buildings that comprise the Grand Opera House York officially opened in 1902 with Little Red Riding Hood starring Florrie Ford. Since then it has been owned by FJ Butterworth, the Shepherd of Shambles and the India Pru Co. Ltd who spent £4,000,000 restoring the theatre to its former glory in 1987.

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Fri 13 Mar 2026

Cumberland Street, York YO1 9SW

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