Nicholas Jubber is an award-winning author of six previous books. He has travelled across the Middle East, North and East Africa, Europe, and Central Asia, exploring the connections between past and present and how stories, myths, fairy tales, and epic tales resonate for the people living in the places where they emerged. He has won the Stanford/Dolman Travel Book Award and the New European non-fiction book of the year, written for the Guardian, Telegraph, Irish Times, and BBC Online amongst other publications, and has spoken and performed storytelling at numerous literary festivals, including Hay-on-Wye, Edinburgh, and Rome.

‘Travel writer Jubber (The Fairy Tellers) takes readers on an entertaining and informative tour of monsters through the ages in this captivating look at “what unsettles us” … Jubber masterfully uses these legends as jumping-off points for meditations on the longevity of such stories and on what they mean for society … Fans of folk horror will love this.’

Nicholas Jubber is an award-winning author of six previous books. He has travelled across the Middle East, North and East Africa, Europe, and Central Asia, exploring the connections between past and present and how stories, myths, fairy tales, and epic tales resonate for the people living in the places where they emerged. He has won the Stanford/Dolman Travel Book Award and the New European non-fiction book of the year, written for the Guardian, Telegraph, Irish Times, and BBC Online amongst other publications, and has spoken and performed storytelling at numerous literary festivals, including Hay-on-Wye, Edinburgh, and Rome.

‘Travel writer Jubber (The Fairy Tellers) takes readers on an entertaining and informative tour of monsters through the ages in this captivating look at “what unsettles us” … Jubber masterfully uses these legends as jumping-off points for meditations on the longevity of such stories and on what they mean for society … Fans of folk horror will love this.’

Nicholas Jubber is an award-winning author of six previous books. He has travelled across the Middle East, North and East Africa, Europe, and Central Asia, exploring the connections between past and present and how stories, myths, fairy tales, and epic tales resonate for the people living in the places where they emerged. He has won the Stanford/Dolman Travel Book Award and the New European non-fiction book of the year, written for the Guardian, Telegraph, Irish Times, and BBC Online amongst other publications, and has spoken and performed storytelling at numerous literary festivals, including Hay-on-Wye, Edinburgh, and Rome.

‘Travel writer Jubber (The Fairy Tellers) takes readers on an entertaining and informative tour of monsters through the ages in this captivating look at “what unsettles us” … Jubber masterfully uses these legends as jumping-off points for meditations on the longevity of such stories and on what they mean for society … Fans of folk horror will love this.’