© YouTube Garth Marenghi launches YouTube show
'Flushing the skulls' of fellow horror kings
Garth Marenghi has launched a video podcast interviewing fellow ‘titans of terror’.
The first guest of Matthew Holness’s alter-ego is Mike Flanagan, who has written and produced films such as Doctor Sleep and The Life of Chuck and Netflix series The Haunting of Hill House and The Fall of the House of Usher.
Garth Marenghi’s Skull-Flusher launches ahead of the publication of his novel This Bursted Earth – the third and final instalment in his TerrorTome trilogy – on October 30. He will also be on tour from next week with a show of the same name
In character, Marenghi said: ‘Greetings, pilgrim. I’m Garth Marenghi, horror author, dreamweaver and, as of this coming week, Skull-Flusher. Let me explicate.
‘To celebrate the publication of my forthcoming novel… which is out this Hallowee’ee’een, I, Garth Marenghi (Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace plus various films in long-term development hell) will flush my ‘horrific’ mind alongside that of almost-equally renowned horror film director Mike Flanagan (Haunting of Hill House, Doctor Sleep, Midnight Mass, Life of Chuck plus many more films fully completed, with apparently hundreds more in fully-funded pre-production) and explore what darkness lurks within our mutually flushed skulls.
‘Call it a symposicum twixt Terror Titans; a Marenghiminglement o’ visions; a Flanafusion o’ minds, or just Garth Marenghi’s Skull-Flusher, which is the best one.
‘Marvel as two Archdukes o’ Darkdom discuss frankly and unfetteredly about their respective working methods, their preferred campfire-based sanitary arrangements and whose ouevre is bigger (spoiler alert - it’s mine). There’ll even be a cautionary warning or two about signing Faustian pacts in the workplace, so can also qualify as a magazine-style show if potential sponsors are listening.
‘This Skull-Flush is the event of a lifetime. Nothing in Heaven or Hell, and certainly on this bursted earth (outside the plumbing industry, perhaps) can compare. Join us as we flush our skulls live on camera.’
• This Bursted Earth is available from Amazon, priced £16.99 in hardback – or from uk.bookshop.org, below, which supports independent bookstores.
Published: 24 Oct 2025
