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Garth Marenghi’s TerrorTome

Dreamweaver, Doomsage, Sunday Times bestseller
  • Author
    • Garth Marenghi
Edition of 2000
Regular price £60
Regular price Sale price £60

Title information

  • Published: Sep 21 2023
  • Pages: 352
  • 570 g
  • 124 x 192mm
  • ISBN: 9781399724166
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About the Collector's Edition

  • Hand-signed by the author.
  • An exclusive additional fourth story.
  • Glorious faux-leather binding complete with 'TO BE PULPED' sticker.
  • An exclusive silver and black TerrorTome printed leather bookmark.
  • A limited print run of 2000, of which fewer than 30 copies remain.

Delve into a quadrilogy of horror

Legend has it that there was an edition of TerrorTome containing a secret fourth tale so horrid, so gruesome, that it was withheld from the general public.


Legend is correct, by the way. We at Special Editions have managed to get our mitts on the last surviving copies, signed by the Archduke of Darkdom himself and containing the exclusive 50-page story THROTTLE AND BRIBES.


'Do not buy a copy of this incredibly rare and limited edition of Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome - however tempted you may be to read Garth Marenghi's exciting 'lost' tale of unimaginably shocking supernatural terror; however much you may crave an exclusive, cow-bound bookmark sporting a horrifying copyright-free image of a human skull, do not buy this book.' – Garth Marenghi

A note from Garth Marenghi

When I first penned my Sunday Times Bestselling horror novel in three parts, Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome, Hodder and Stoughton (mainly Hodder, if I'm honest) refused to publish one of the stories, 'Throttle & Bribes', accusing it of being cruel, exploitative and potentially offensive to human life, as well as supposedly wrecking the magical 'rule of three'. "A trilogy can't be a trilogy if there are four stories included, Garth," they said. "It can," I counter-said, "and it will."


However, once the initial batch had been printed (with faux-pleather binding for the horrotically adventurous among you), Hodder & Stoughton (again, mainly Ken Hodder and not Melinda Stoughton, though she can be tricky) refused to distribute them and in fact ordered the entire batch to be pulped. I immediately took matters into my own hands and drove said batch in the back of a white rental van to a storage depot in Luton, where I'm happy to say most of the books, though not all, survived several major leaks.


I now present to you, with full legal backing from a well-known firm of solicitors I have yet to consult, the full, unexpurgated version of Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome, a trilogy of horrifying tales now complete with their original missing story. Technically a 'quadrilogy', then, if that pleases Hodder. Which I doubt. Savour.

About Garth Marenghi

Garth 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.

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