Monsterland

a journey around the world’s dark imagination
Nicholas Jubber

Praise for The Fairy Tellers:

‘His cornucopia of tellers and tales is a delight, a riveting celebration of a genre that revels in its own hybridity and the imaginative riches produced by the crossing of cultural and literary borders.’

Financial Times

Praise for The Fairy Tellers:

‘Engaging and interesting ... Jubber’s book shows the long-sustained value of these narratives, and should make us wonder what might happen to us if they disappeared from somewhere at the back of our brains.’

The Spectator

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**Praise for The Fairy Tellers:**‘Prepare yourself for a wild ride.’

The Times

Monsters, in all their terrifying glory, have preoccupied humans since we began telling stories. But where did these stories come from?

In Monsterland, award-winning author Nicholas Jubber goes on a journey to discover more about the monsters we’ve invented, lurking in the dark and the wild places of the earth — giants, dragons, ogres, zombies, ghosts, demons — all with one thing in common: their ability to terrify.

His far-ranging adventure takes him across the world. He sits on the thrones of giants in Cornwall, visits the shrine of a beheaded ogre near Kyoto, travels to an eighteenth-century Balkan vampire’s forest dwelling, and paddles among the shapeshifters of the Louisiana bayous. On his travels, he discovers that the stories of the people and places that birthed them are just as fascinating as the creatures themselves.

Artfully written, Monsterland is a fascinating interrogation into why we need these monsters and what they can tell us about ourselves — how they bind communities together as much as they cruelly cast away outsiders.

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Format:Paperback

Size: 234mm × 153mm

Extent:352pp

ISBN (13):9781761380297

RRP:$37.99

Pub date:3 Jun 2025

Rights Held: World English

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Nicholas Jubber

Nicholas Jubber is an award-winning travel writer. Fascinated by history and its relationship with the present, he explores connections — and misconnections — across the centuries. In his book, The Fairy Tellers, this fascination carries him from Kashmir to Lapland to find out the history behind some of the world’s most beloved, and many long-forgotten fairy tales. He has been shortlisted three times for the Stanford Dolman award, and won it for his debut The Prester Quest. He has spoken at literary festivals including Hay-on-Wye and Edinburgh, and has written articles for The Guardian, The Telegraph, and The Irish Times, among others.

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