Severed hands, crushed bones and a ‘monstrous mermaid with sharp teeth’: Reece Shearsmith on his dark obsessions

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The League of Gentlemen and Inside No 9 co-creator has always displayed a sense of gothic unease, and his new book combines myth, memoir – and his own disquieting drawings When Reece Shearsmith was a boy, he overheard relatives chatting at a New Year…

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  • The League of Gentlemen and Inside No 9 co-creator has always displayed a sense of gothic unease, and his new book combines myth, memoir – and his own disquieting drawings When Reece Shearsmith was a boy, he overheard relatives chatting at a New Year…
  • Reported by The Guardian and published Thu, 08 Oct 2026 07:00:13 UTC.

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