Things I Took From The Dark - Signed First Edition

by Shearsmith, Reece | Witchcraft, Occult Studies, Supernatural
Published 08/10/2026 by Quercus in the United Kingdom
Hardback | 384 pages 
198 x 153mm | 

Signed First Edition - Hardback - Publishes October 8th - please just order one copy per person if you don't mind as this is very limited.

A personal guided tour through an exhibition of the monsters, ghosts, occult objects and
tales of horror that have shaped League of Gentlemen and Inside No. 9 creator Reece Shearsmith's life.

For decades, Reece Shearsmith has been collecting terrible and unexpected exhibits from
our world and beyond, from the screaming skull of Glamis C astle 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 items, Reece tells his own story, from a terrifying nighttime
visitation on a council estate in Hull, via haunted inns and uncanny creatures that hovered
around the edges of the League of Gentlemen, to the benevolent teaspoon poltergeist of
the Inside No. 9 tour. Beautifully illustrated throughout by the author, Things I Took from
the Dark is a memoir like no other. You'll come away knowing the author far better; but
the exhibits are quite interested in you too...