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

What's happening

SignalsMonitor is following this as a general story. The Guardian UK is the outlet attached so far. The first report grouped here was at 8 Oct 2026, 07:00 UTC. The headline in use is “Severed hands, crushed bones and a ‘monstrous mermaid with sharp teeth’: Reece Shearsmith on his dark obsessions”. This note is SignalsMonitor's own briefing, not the publisher's article.

What we know

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 gathering. “One of them was talking…

The Guardian UKRead at The Guardian UK

Story timeline

Reports grouped into this story, earliest first. Exact repeats from the same outlet are collapsed.

9 days ago
First reported by The Guardian UK
Severed hands, crushed bones and a ‘monstrous mermaid with sharp teeth’: Reece Shearsmith on his dark obsessions

Reported by 1 outlet

The Guardian

The GuardianSevered hands, crushed bones and a ‘monstrous mermaid with sharp teeth’: Reece Shearsmith on his dark obsessions9 days ago