Theyd managed to keep it under wraps for twenty years: hiding the tapes, suppressing the press coverage.
Two long decades of misinformation separated us from a truth too shocking to screen.
Rumours persisted: a Peruvian broadcast, a missing castmember, skulduggery in high places.
Finally, in 2004, Channel 4 did the decent thing.
Writer of countless bestselling chillers, the mans brilliant careers won him acolytes and enemies in equal measure.
Inevitably, his every venture has been dogged by controversy.
Even Dean Learner, Garths manager and agent, has conceded that his stars crossed the line many times.
And then looked like he went and ate them all.
Maybe it was just killed off by bizarre scheduling choices on Channel 4s part.
Theres another, stranger explanation forDarkplaces decades-long burial, one repeated by a startling number of generally reliable sources.
Some would have us believe thatDarkplace, and its creator, never actually existed.
Could she really be Alice Lowe, star of British films such asSightseers?
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Its tempting to dismiss all this as the deluded rambling of online conspiracy theorists.
A tantalising, if mind-boggling, prospect glimmers on our shared horizon.
(Forgive me; Garths style is as infectious as a dose of cosmic broccoli.)
Even more of a delight for genre buffs isDarkplaces structure.
Marenghis endearingly gargantuan ego, captured with hilarious conviction by Holness, shapes all aspects ofDarkplaces production.
And what if it and its rat brethren took over and ate Parliament?)
Garth is, thankfully, a true one-off.
Yes, one ofDarkplaces finest moments takes place in that staple of genre television, the dream sequence.
To quote no less a luminary than Todd Rivers: need I say more?
Read about the cast of Garth Marenghis Darkplace,here.
