Contents

Also by Will Storr

Dedication

1: ‘It’s like treason’

2: ‘I don’t know what’s going on with these people …’

3: ‘The secret of the long life of the tortoise’

4: ‘Two John Lennons’

5: ‘Solidified, intensified, gross sensations’

6: ‘The invisible actor at the centre of the world’

7: ‘Quack’

8: ‘Some type of tiny wasps’

9: ‘Top Dog wants his name in’

10: ‘They’re frightening people’

11: ‘There was nothing there, but I knew it was a cockerel’

12: ‘I came of exceptional parents’

13: ‘Backwards and forwards in the slime’

14: ‘That one you just go, “Eeerrrr”’

15: ‘A suitable place’

Epilogue: The Hero-Maker

Acknowledgements

A note on my method

Notes and references

Index

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