Things I Took from the Dark: The Museum of Me by Reece Shearsmith (SIGNED PRE-ORDER) Groundswell Speaker 2024

Things I Took from the Dark: The Museum of Me by Reece Shearsmith (SIGNED PRE-ORDER) Groundswell Speaker 2024SIGNED EDITION DATE OF RELEASE: 8 OCT 2026 For decades, Reece Shearsmith has been collecting terrible and unexpected exhibits from our world and beyond, from the screaming skull of Glamis Castle to the Highgate vampire, via sea devils, the Krampus and a talking mongoose called Gef. Some of them he found, some of them found him, but they all reside here in his museum, carefully stored and waiting for their stories to be told. Through the lens of these

Illustrated with original wood engravings

available in a new chunky format

Filtered through the impersonal gaze of its keenly intelligent protagonist

Except for Izzy and Lucas - bitter rivals banned from working the same shift

from the Women’s Prize-longlisted author of The Maiden

A fascinating tangle of witches and mermaids

a weekend or a week- A laminated pull-out map of Boston

he has been villainized

and in pleasure – as a way of finally coming to know the divine

a wealthy local private school

lighting and storytelling

and a beguiling book of Irish fairytales