As well as starring in a supernatural hospital drama, Garth Marenghi is also an author, and produced Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome!
This is basically three different stories, with a connected through line. The first is a pastiche of Hellraiser, then we get a classic bad 70s science fiction horror, and finally a very subtle dig at Stephen King.
Now, while this is comedy, it's comedy from a very pedantic view of very carefully and precisely stating exactly what is going on, and treating it with extreme gravity, especially when it is ludicrous. While is fine to start with... but by the third story it was really wearing quite thin.
I got the audiobook, and Gareth Marenghi himself is narrating it. It's great to hear that cadence and while I'm not saying the book reading peoples will be missing out on anything, there is a distinct way he says things that would be missing for those who can't get that voice quite right in the head.
It's amusing, but overstays it's welcome. At least with the book you can more easily take breaks between the sections as opposed to pausing the audiobook and doing something else.
Fun, but choose wisely.
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