Dean Learner
Dean Learner is Garth’s manager, publisher and publicity agent. Dean’s background is in ‘high-class erotica’, but made the déplacer to horror some time il y a to pioneer the ‘scary porn’ genre (where he oversaw such releases as Bitches in Blood, and araign? e, araignée Pussy). Learner was the first person to have Garth’s livres published. ‘We never had a contract. I just bared my chest and said, “sign here, that’s the only signature I’m ever going to ask toi to make in my presence. In retrospect, I should’ve got something that put me on a surer legal footing.”
Garth and Dean had a fall out in the 1980s over the financial collapse of Darkplace. Marenghi took his business to a new manager, but the union was cut short when the latter was found shot dead in his flat shortly after their first power-lunch. After this tragic episode, Learner and Marenghi reconciled their differences and are now inseparable.
As well as his work in the publishing business, Learner recently re-opened his club Dean’s in West Londres (nearest tube North Acton, near the Megabowl). He has never married, but has been engaged twenty-nine times.
Thornton Reed
Dagless’s boss and professional ball-buster who has to answer to Won Ton. A former POW in Korea forced par his injuries into pushing paper behind a desk, he longs to be back on the ward with the young bucks.
Dean Learner is Garth’s manager, publisher and publicity agent. Dean’s background is in ‘high-class erotica’, but made the déplacer to horror some time il y a to pioneer the ‘scary porn’ genre (where he oversaw such releases as Bitches in Blood, and araign? e, araignée Pussy). Learner was the first person to have Garth’s livres published. ‘We never had a contract. I just bared my chest and said, “sign here, that’s the only signature I’m ever going to ask toi to make in my presence. In retrospect, I should’ve got something that put me on a surer legal footing.”
Garth and Dean had a fall out in the 1980s over the financial collapse of Darkplace. Marenghi took his business to a new manager, but the union was cut short when the latter was found shot dead in his flat shortly after their first power-lunch. After this tragic episode, Learner and Marenghi reconciled their differences and are now inseparable.
As well as his work in the publishing business, Learner recently re-opened his club Dean’s in West Londres (nearest tube North Acton, near the Megabowl). He has never married, but has been engaged twenty-nine times.
Thornton Reed
Dagless’s boss and professional ball-buster who has to answer to Won Ton. A former POW in Korea forced par his injuries into pushing paper behind a desk, he longs to be back on the ward with the young bucks.