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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...
Reece Shearsmith is the award-winning actor, writer and co-creator of Inside No 9 and
The League of Gentlemen. He has also starred in numerous other TV comedies, including
Car Share alongside Peter Kay, Mid Morning Matters with Steve C oogan, Catterick with
Reeves and Mortimer and Spaced with Simon Pegg. Reece also has an illustrious career
on stage, starring in new plays by Steven Moffat (The Unfriend at the Minerva Theatre in
C olchester), Lucy Prebble (A Very Expensive Poison at the Old Vic) and Martin McDonagh
(Hangmen at the Royal C ourt).
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...
Reece Shearsmith is the award-winning actor, writer and co-creator of Inside No 9 and
The League of Gentlemen. He has also starred in numerous other TV comedies, including
Car Share alongside Peter Kay, Mid Morning Matters with Steve C oogan, Catterick with
Reeves and Mortimer and Spaced with Simon Pegg. Reece also has an illustrious career
on stage, starring in new plays by Steven Moffat (The Unfriend at the Minerva Theatre in
C olchester), Lucy Prebble (A Very Expensive Poison at the Old Vic) and Martin McDonagh
(Hangmen at the Royal C ourt).
- Publisher Name:Quercus Publishing
- ISBN: 9781529453133
- Author:Shearsmith, Reece
- Publication Date:2026-10-08
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