This wonderful woodcut was one of four Nan Leeder produced to illustrate Mary Butts' exploration of the uses of the supernatural in fiction, entitled "Ghosties and Ghoulies". There's another one here. The essay was serialised in The Bookman magazine, then edited by Hugh Ross Williamson (1901-1978). Williamson was one of Butts' chief correspondents and supporters in the 1930s, and The Bookman was the main outlet for her prolific reviewing practice at this time. She contributed thirty-four reviews to the journal between 1931 and 1934 on subjects as diverse as gardening, Englishness and the classical world.1 "Ghosties and Ghoulies" is reprinted without the images in McPherson & Company's edition of Ashe of Rings.
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'Ghosties and
Ghoulies', The
Bookman, vol. 83 no. 469
(Jan. 1933), pp386-389; vol. 83 no. 497 (Feb. 1933),
pp433-435; vol. 83, no. 498 (Mar. 1933), pp493-494; vol.
84, no. 499 (Apr. 1933), pp12-14.