Garth Marenghi - This Bursted Earth Book Tour

at Grand Opera House, York

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This show was rescheduled from 28th March 2026.

Horror author Nick Steen is having visions… A sinister Black Steeple; eerie lights in the sky that look like a Catherine wheel but are not remotely a Catherine wheel… Plus a giant skeleton with a moustache. Are they omens? Auguries? Portenderings of things to come? (Spoiler - yes, they are).

For Nick Steen’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? And will there ultimately be a grand finale to this three-book series (aka a trilogy) or a more open-ended conclusion in order to leave potential room for further sequels? (That, btw, will ultimately be Garth’s decision.)


From the fevered imaginata of Horror Fiction’s Grand Frightener Garth Marenghi, author of Sunday Times-Bestselling Garth Marenghi’s TerrorTome and Garth Marenghi’s Incarcerat, come three freshly rancid tales of…

…THIS BURSTED EARTH…*

Hardback copies of This Bursted Earth will be available for purchase on the day. Be warned: signings are strictly time-limited. You’ll get no more than one minute with the world’s greatest Frighternerman, Darkscribe, Doomsage (plus Man-Shee) before you’re moved on and/or manhandled.

Garth Marenghi

A surprise hit at the 2000 Edinburgh Festival, Garth returned to win the Perrier Award in 2001. Described as 'a ghastly hybrid of Alan Partridge and Jeremy Clarkson', Garth has a unique brand of gothic humour who will have you begging for more with his brilliant writing and imagination.

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Grand Opera House

Clifford and Cumberland Street
York
YO1 9SW

Website:
atgtickets.com/venues/grand-opera-house-york
Disabled Booking:
0333 0095399

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Grand Opera House

Clifford and Cumberland Street
York
YO1 9SW

Website:
atgtickets.com/venues/grand-opera-house-york
Disabled Booking:
0333 0095399

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on Fri 13 March 2026