Garth Marenghi, the enduring comic creation from Matthew Holness, is set to tour the UK throughout 2025 and 2026 with readings from his new book, This Bursted Earth. Tickets for the tour go on sale at 10am on Friday 4 April. Scroll to the bottom of this article for a detailed list of his UK tour dates. 

First entering the popular consciousness with the cult show Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace in 2004, the horror writer (who’s famously written more books than he’s read) will release his latest novel this October, which he’s claiming is the final part of his Terrortome trilogy. 

Marenghi said: ‘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.’

Garth Marenghi’s 2025 and 2026 UK tour dates: 

Playhouse, Norwich, Monday 20 October
City Varieties, Leeds, Tuesday 28 October 
Lowry, Manchester, Wednesday 29 October 
Tyne Theatre, Newcastle Upon Tyne, Friday 31 October 
The Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh, Saturday 1 November
Eden Court, Inverness, Sunday 2 November
Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal, Thursday 6 November
Grand Theatre, Lancaster, Friday 7 November
Plowright Theatre, Scunthorpe, Saturday 8 November
Leadmill, Sheffield, Sunday 9 November
Corn Exchange, Ipswich, Thursday 13 November
Lyceum Theatre, Crewe, Friday 14 November
Beacon, Bristol, Saturday 15 November
Art, Reading, Sunday 16 November
Junction, Cambridge, Tuesday 18 November
Royal And Derngate, Northampton, Friday 21 November
Spa Theatre, Scarborough, Saturday 22 November
Corn Exchange, Exeter, Friday 28 November
Brewhouse, Taunton, Wednesday 4 February 2026
Komedia, Bath, Thursday 5 February
Live, Fareham, Friday 6 February
Wyvern Theatre, Swindon, Saturday 7 February
Mayflower Studios, Southampton, Wednesday 11 February
Hazlitt Arts Studios, Maidstone, Friday 20 February
Leas Cliff Hall, Folkestone, Saturday 21 February
Castle Theatre, Wellingborough, Friday 27 February
Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry, Saturday 28 February
Palace Theatre, Southend, Saturday 7 March 
Garrick, Lichfield, Saturday 14 March 
Atkinson, Southport, Wednesday 18 March 
Old Fire Station, Carlisle, Thursday 19 March 
Caird Hall, Dundee, Friday 20 March 
Dome, Brighton, Friday 27 March 
Grand Opera House, York, Saturday 28 March 
Opera House, Cork, Thursday 9 April 
Olympia Theatre, Dublin, Friday 10 April 
Ulster Hall, Belfast, Saturday 11 April 
Town Hall, Birmingham, Saturday 18 April 
New Theatre, Cardiff, Friday 24 April 
Palladium, London, Saturday 25 April 
Pavilion Theatre, Glasgow, Sunday 3 May 

Tickets for Garth Marenghi’s This Bursted Earth tour go on sale at 10am on Friday 4 April.