Garth Marenghi's Darkplace is the brainchild of celebrated horror writer and 
self-styled "fabulist" Garth Marenghi, author of such genre classics as 
Afterbirth (a mutated placenta attacks Bristol) and Crab! ("One of the three 
best horror books about crabs I've ever read" - Hard Gore Magazine). 
Back in the 1980s, he branched out into television production, writing and 
starring in a series so radical, so scary and so downright crazy that when the 
bosses of Channel 4 saw what they had on their hands, they ran away screaming, 
like little girls. 
Only now, twenty years on and amid the worst programming drought in television 
history, have the station finally allowed the show on the air. 
Intercut with new interviews with Marenghi himself and his co-stars Dean Learner 
and Todd Rivers, Garth Marenghi's Darkplace is perhaps the most disturbing vision 
of hospital life ever broadcast