ILLUSTRATIONS

FRONT

The Ulster werewolves, © The British Library Board. Royal Ms 13b, f.018r

FIG. 1

The Witch of Compton, temporary installation by David Gosling, photograph by Damian Ward

FIG. 2

Hippogriff, from E.R. Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros, illustration by Keith Henderson (1922)

FIG. 3

The Calf of Man and the islet of Kitterland

FIG. 4

The Giants of Ettinsmoor, from C.S. Lewis’s The Silver Chair

FIG. 5

Gog and Magog, the Guildhall Giants

FIG. 6

Grendel, from Beowulf: Dragonslayer by Rosemary Sutcliff. Illustrations © Charles Keeping. Reproduced by permission of The Random House Group Ltd.

FIG. 7

The submerged forest of Sarn, Ceredigion, Wales

FIG. 8

The Eildon Hills, photograph from geograph.org.uk by Tom Chisholm

FIG. 9

‘Thomas the Rhymer and the Elf-Queen’, from A Book of Old Ballads, introduced by Beverley Nichols, illustrated by H.M. Brock (1934).

FIG. 10

‘White and golden Lizzie stood’, from Christina Rossetti, ‘Goblin Market’, illustration by Arthur Rackham

FIG. 11

‘La Belle Dame sans Merci’, sketch by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

FIG. 12

The Black Shuck clawmarks, Blythburgh, Suffolk

FIG. 13

The Hound of the Baskervilles, Puffin Book cover

FIG. 14

The Banshee Appears, in ‘The Whiteboys’, Halfpenny Miscellany, illustrated by R. Prowse (1862)

FIG. 15

The Wife of Usher’s Well, from A Book of Old Ballads (1934), introduced by Beverley Nichols, illustrated by H.M. Brock

FIG. 16

More of More Hall and the Dragon of Wantley, a chapbook illustration

FIG. 17

The Wantley Dragon, by Dave Pickersgill

FIG. 18

Fafnir the Dragon, from Richard Wagner’s Siegfried (1911), illustrated by Arthur Rackham

FIG. 19

The ruined chimneys of the Rosewall and Ransom United Mines, photograph by Simon Jones

FIG. 20

A brownie or house-elf, from John Jacobs, English Fairy Tales (1890), illustrated by John D. Batten

FIG. 21

The Ring of Brodgar, Orkney

FIG. 22

Clerk Colvill, from A Book of Old Ballads (1934), introduced by Beverley Nichols, illustrated by H.M. Brock

FIG. 23

The Mermaid Chair in Zennor church, Cornwall

FIG. 24

The Laidly Worm of Spindlestone Heugh, from Joseph Jacobs, English Fairy Tales (1890), illustrated by John D. Batten

FIG. 25

The Falkirk Kelpies, sculpture by Andy Scott

FIG. 26

Covers of Alan Garner’s The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, The Moon of Gomrath, The Owl Service and Elidor

FIG. 27

The Green Children of Woolpit on the Woolpit Village Sign, photograph by Diane Earl

FIG. 28

A changeling. © Andy Paciorek, from the book Strange Lands: A Field Guide to the Celtic Otherworld

FIG. 29

Original cover and 2006 reprint of John Gordon, The Giant under the Snow

FIG. 30

The Green Man sculpture (detail), Hamsterley Forest, Northumbria, carved by Phil Townsend