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Herbert’s early work, like that of the fictional Marenghi, specialised in blandly titled but transgressive stories of debasement and defilement. Fans and devotees of horror literature may find elements of the Marenghi character and his influences in fellow British writers like Shaun Hutson, James Herbert, and Guy N. While King may be a small part of the Marenghi DNA, at least in his style and the vagaries of his subject matter, the genetic makeup of the character as both a parody and embodiment of a certain type of pulp horror fiction is more pointed and wide-ranging. Like King, who places the majority of his own stories in his native Maine, Marenghi’s horror is rooted firmly in his hometown of Romford, which here becomes a host to all manner of supernatural phenomena centred around the fittingly named Darkplace Hospital. With his black leather jacket, off-the-shoulder mullet, and unfashionable glasses, he has the look of a budget Stephen King, circa the 1980s.
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In conception, Marenghi – who describes himself in the show’s opening vox as an ‘ author, dream-weaver, visionary, plus actor’ – is a catalogue of living influences cribbed from real-life writers of horror and fantasy fiction. In both productions, Holness would refine the characterisation of Marenghi, a spoof horror writer specialising in lurid schlock titles, like ‘ Slicer’, ‘ R.I.P.P.E.R.’ and ‘ Black Fang’. Written and created by Richard Ayoade and Matthew Holness, Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace grew out of the success of the pair’s earlier stage productions: ‘ Garth Marenghi’s Fright Knight’, performed at the 2000 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and its follow-up, ‘ Garth Marenghi’s Netherhead’, which won the Perrier Award (now known as the Edinburgh Comedy Award) the following year. These are the images that would have greeted audiences tuning into the inaugural episode of Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace both the show itself, broadcast on Channel 4 in the first half of 2004 and its fictional counterpart, the show within the show, which is said to have premiered in the 1980s (“ It had a brief run in Peru.“) Against a soundtrack of giddy synthesizers, guns are drawn and fired, knowing glances are exchanged between actors carefully coiffured and framed with soft studio lighting, while an ambulance, parked idle in a vacant woodland, erupts in a burst of flames. ‘ You’re about to enter the world of my imagination,’ the voice-over urges, as the sequence explodes into a busy montage of drama, action and the fantastique. Throwing a finished page over his shoulder in an act of completion, it dissolves almost immediately into a vague premonition of fantastical imagery a warning of things to come. Memories of The Twilight Zone (1959-1964), and its image of a floating door to the universe, create an obvious point of reference: a visual echo to that same ‘ dimension of imagination’ where strange stories unfold. As his manic creativity consumes him, the effect of the shot creates the impression that the man is lost in the cosmos his body suspended as if floating through time and space. Behind him, a backdrop of chroma-keyed stars radiate, like diamonds against black baize. ‘Once Upon a Beginning’Īn ordinary man sits at a desk pounding the keys of his typewriter. Since that time, it’s developed a devoted cult audience more attuned to its combination of clever meta-fiction, genre tribute and hilarious lampoon.
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