The reason bogeymen exist—what gives rise to them and makes them appear—is children’s whims: parents, at the end of their rope, invent these creatures, each more horrible and hideous than the last, to scare the little ones and force them to sleep.
But here’s the thing: it’s been decades since a new bogeyman has appeared. Why? It’s a mystery. And what is the young and handsome Girolamo doing among these monsters, in their ancestral home from which no one ever returns?
Agnès Desarthe was born in 1966. A novelist, she has published among others: Un secret sans importance (Prix du livre Inter 1996), Dans la nuit brune (prix Renaudot des lycéens 2010) or Une partie de chasse, and more recently Le Château des Rentiers (2023) as well as many works for young people. She has also published an essay on Virginia Woolf with Geneviève Brisac, V.W. Le mélange des genres and an autobiographical essay Comment j’ai appris à lire (Stock, 2013). Ce cœur changeant (L’Olivier, 2015), won the prix littéraire du Monde and La chance de leur vie (L’Olivier, 2018) was a great bestseller.
Juanjo Guarnido, born in 1967 in Granada, is a Spanish comic book artist.
