The Ulster werewolves, © The British Library Board. Royal Ms 13b, f.018r |
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The Witch of Compton, temporary installation by David Gosling, photograph by Damian Ward |
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Hippogriff, from E.R. Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros, illustration by Keith Henderson (1922) |
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The Calf of Man and the islet of Kitterland |
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The Giants of Ettinsmoor, from C.S. Lewis’s The Silver Chair |
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Gog and Magog, the Guildhall Giants |
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Grendel, from Beowulf: Dragonslayer by Rosemary Sutcliff. Illustrations © Charles Keeping. Reproduced by permission of The Random House Group Ltd. |
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The submerged forest of Sarn, Ceredigion, Wales |
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The Eildon Hills, photograph from geograph.org.uk by Tom Chisholm |
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‘Thomas the Rhymer and the Elf-Queen’, from A Book of Old Ballads, introduced by Beverley Nichols, illustrated by H.M. Brock (1934). |
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‘White and golden Lizzie stood’, from Christina Rossetti, ‘Goblin Market’, illustration by Arthur Rackham |
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‘La Belle Dame sans Merci’, sketch by Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
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The Black Shuck clawmarks, Blythburgh, Suffolk |
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The Hound of the Baskervilles, Puffin Book cover |
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The Banshee Appears, in ‘The Whiteboys’, Halfpenny Miscellany, illustrated by R. Prowse (1862) |
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The Wife of Usher’s Well, from A Book of Old Ballads (1934), introduced by Beverley Nichols, illustrated by H.M. Brock |
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More of More Hall and the Dragon of Wantley, a chapbook illustration |
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The Wantley Dragon, by Dave Pickersgill |
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Fafnir the Dragon, from Richard Wagner’s Siegfried (1911), illustrated by Arthur Rackham |
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The ruined chimneys of the Rosewall and Ransom United Mines, photograph by Simon Jones |
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A brownie or house-elf, from John Jacobs, English Fairy Tales (1890), illustrated by John D. Batten |
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The Ring of Brodgar, Orkney |
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Clerk Colvill, from A Book of Old Ballads (1934), introduced by Beverley Nichols, illustrated by H.M. Brock |
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The Mermaid Chair in Zennor church, Cornwall |
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The Laidly Worm of Spindlestone Heugh, from Joseph Jacobs, English Fairy Tales (1890), illustrated by John D. Batten |
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The Falkirk Kelpies, sculpture by Andy Scott |
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Covers of Alan Garner’s The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, The Moon of Gomrath, The Owl Service and Elidor |
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The Green Children of Woolpit on the Woolpit Village Sign, photograph by Diane Earl |
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A changeling. © Andy Paciorek, from the book Strange Lands: A Field Guide to the Celtic Otherworld |
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Original cover and 2006 reprint of John Gordon, The Giant under the Snow |
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The Green Man sculpture (detail), Hamsterley Forest, Northumbria, carved by Phil Townsend |