He’s had a number of short stories published to great acclaim, and his film Possum is an absolutely bleak horror steeped in atmosphere from the 70s and 80s. Garth Marenghi: Editing, because it’s a career fraught with regular danger and frequent violence, I find. And the clash between Marenghi’s self-seriousness and the crumminess of the prose is a gift that keeps on giving.

Writing is so intense that once I start, the last thing I want is regular bowel movements,” he says. Gangster Spike (Valentine Nonyela) is living with Jodie (Saffron Burrows), a white woman in flight from an abusive relationship, and Spike’s sister Anjela (Suzette Llewellyn) finds herself in confrontation with the police. One marvels at Marenghi’s tangled sexual subconscious, which would confound the doughtiest shrink – assuming anyone could be found to take on the job.But interestingly, Onwurah is also engaging with more mainstream, commercial cinema and music, aiming to create a film like Escape from New York or Boyz N the Hood: a studio movie made with arthouse resources. In an audacious dreamlike opening section, Onwurah reimagines the 1803 Igbo Landing defiance in the US state of Georgia, in which captive Igbo people took their own lives by drowning rather than submit to slavery. Reads like Garth’s classic oeuvre of paperback horrors crossed with the X-Files, Faustian myth and bits of Manimal.

If we laugh at his words – which we very often do – it is merely the safety valve of our unconscious releasing the intense fear his prose has instilled.Beautifully bonkers, with a razor-sharp understanding of the genre, Garth Marenghi's prose is schlocky, corny, cliché-ridden and over-written. Holness went round to Mitchell’s dorm at Peterhouse College, “knocked on his door and introduced myself and said, ‘I think you’re gonna get into Footlights next year, I really want to get in, too – we should do a show together.

It’s common to see these in fighting games, but it’s still satisfying to see after the end of every match. Richard Ayoade played Dean Learner, Marenghi’s unscrupulous and dandyish agent; Matt Berry played thespian Todd Rivers and Alice Lowe was Madeleine Wool, who sadly disappeared somewhere in Eastern Europe before the show’s rediscovery. When it comes to his pre-writing routines, Marenghi likes to keep things simple: “I always cut out fibre for a week beforehand. Though Darkplace was shelved for being, as Marenghi later put it, “too subversive, too dangerous [and] too damn scary,” that didn’t stop the show from attracting a die-hard cult following.

In reality, Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace was a spark of comedy genius from Matt Holness and Richard Ayoade.

Racial violence breaks out in a huge, black ghetto - triggered by a white woman living there with a black man. The track to the realm of agony stage will be available to listen for the public in a weeks time, stay tuned. That Marenghi is so aloof and self-important that he can shut down some of the more esoteric or bizarre inquiries with a taciturn ‘no’ helps – though it’s a device he uses a bit too liberally.This film is worth watching if you are a fan of these groups, or would like to see a different portrayal of bleak futures of oppression, since most films of this type, such as "Blade Runner", focus only on white or robotic characters. The humourless pretension of his alter-ego is at odds with the absurdity of his work in which no metaphor is ever ambiguous and no subtext knowingly deployed. Comprising six episodes interspersed with talking heads from some of its stars and creators, it was an intentionally badly made homage to horror books, films, and TV shows. I don’t know about you, but my cack-clock is usually mid-morning, which means I miss the post as well. This is Horror cannot be held responsible for any injuries, losses, or unleashing of hellbeasts incurred.