{"id":26124,"date":"2026-04-20T08:00:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T13:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=26124"},"modified":"2026-04-19T23:58:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T04:58:39","slug":"library-addition-two-signed-garth-marenghi-firsts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=26124","title":{"rendered":"Library Addition: Two Signed “Garth Marenghi” Firsts"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 2004, BBC 4 aired Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace<\/b>, a horror parody series satirizing the cheapness of 1980s BBC TV shows, created by Matthew Holness and Richard Ayoade, all supposedly the work of “Garth Marenghi” (Holness), “the only writer to publish more books than he’d read.” Last year, I showed these as the Halloween offering for our regular Saturday movie group. Dwight took that as a license to buy these two signed “Marenghi” firsts and give them to me as a birthday gift. <\/p>\n

  • “Marenghi, Garth” (i.e., Matthew Holness). Garth Marenghi’s Incarcerat<\/b>. Hodder & Stoughton Coronet, 2023. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine protected dust jacket, signed by the author (as Marenghi). Received as a gift.\n

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  • “Marenghi, Garth” (i.e., Matthew Holness). Garth Marenghi’s TerrorTome<\/b>. Hodder & Stoughton, 2022. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine Mylar-protected dust jacket, signed by the author (as Marenghi). Received as a gift.\n

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    In 2004, BBC 4 aired Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace, a horror parody series satirizing the cheapness of 1980s BBC TV shows, created by Matthew Holness and Richard Ayoade, all supposedly the work of “Garth Marenghi” (Holness), “the only writer to publish more books than he’d read.” Last year, I showed these as the Halloween offering for… Continue reading Library Addition: Two Signed “Garth Marenghi” Firsts<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":22,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,474],"tags":[1973,2824,1979,2825,613,1987],"class_list":["post-26124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-tv","tag-books","tag-garth-marenghis-darkplace","tag-horror","tag-matthew-holness","tag-parody","tag-tv","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26124"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26139,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26124\/revisions\/26139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}