Monsterland with Nicholas Jubber
Tue 21 Oct 2025
7:00pm at Mr B's Emporium of Reading Delights, 14/15 John Street, Bath, BA1 2JL
Book + Ticket gives you a free ticket with a copy of the book, all tickets include 15% off any books purchased on the night, and author talk, and signing.
Other ways to book:
Email tickets@mrbsemporium.com, call 01225 331155 or pop into the shop at 14-15 John Street, Bath. BA1 2JL.
We are thrilled to welcome award-winning author Nicholas Jubber to Bath to celebrate the release of his new book, Monsterland: A Journey Around the World’s Dark Imagination.
Monsters, in all their terrifying glory, have preoccupied humans since we began telling stories. But where did these stories come from? We hope you’ll join us for what is sure to be a suitably spooky evening, as we follow Nicholas Jubber on a journey around the globe, exploring the monsters that have fascinated us for centuries…
Nicholas Jubber is a British travel writer, and is the author of several books including The Fairy Tellers: A Journey into the Secret History of Fairy Tales for which we hosted him for an event in 2022. He has travelled throughout South America, Europe, the Middle East and East Africa. He has worked as a journalist and is also a produced playwright; one of his plays was staged at the Edinburgh Festival.
About the Book:
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 spellbinding interrogation into why we need these monsters and what they can tell us about ourselves – how they bind communities together as much as the cruelly cast away outsiders.
‘Like a child after the Pied Piper I pursued Jubber into a world both human and full of magic. A carnival of a book, rigorously researched and jostling with life’ AMY JEFFS
‘Magical tales about magical tales and tellers. Jubber, congenially and fascinatingly, explores the land from which the great fairy stories seeped, making the stories more resonant, powerful and important than ever’ CHARLES FOSTER, author of Being a Human and Being a Beast