The Reader and the Writer

As a child he was sometimes found at midnight by a page still reading. They took his taper away, and he bred glow-worms to serve his purpose. They took the glow-worms away, and he almost burnt the house down with a tinder.

Orlando: A Biography (1928)
Virgina Woolf


You know, as a writer, if you took away my paper, I would write on my heart. If you take away my ink, I'd write on the wind. It wouldn't be an ideal way to work.

Garth Marenghi's Darkplace "Hell Hath Fury" (2004)
written by Matthew Holness & Richard Ayoade

The Incredibly Bad Writer

The moonlight shone down on the place, unhindered. The gnarled parapets jagged upwards, like a bony hand of icy indifference. In the background there was a pigeon.

Garth Marenghi's Darkplace "The Apes of Wrath" (2004)

Matthew Holness & Richard Ayoade

He was sitting all alone in the enormous cabin of a Falcon 2000EX corporate jet as it bounced its way through turbulence. In the background, the dual Pratt & Whitney engines hummed evenly.

The Lost Symbol (2009)

Dan Brown

The DVD Cover

Garth Marenghi's Darkplace (2006)

DVD released October 16, 2006

The Seventh Seal (1957)

DVD released June 16, 2009