Whats this fairly creepy illustration I saw in a book as a child?
I will give the troll book a shot as something to investigate, but (and I know how odd this sounds) my sense-memory associated with the image makes me feel as if the surrounding text was not just English, but vaguely gaslit Victorian, like a weary old hotel throughout which prowled an unwelcome guest who popped out at night to dine upon the unwary, slightly mad au pair. It has the same tenuous British associations I have for rhymes like “here comes a candle to light you to bed, here comes a chopper to chop off your head,” if that makes any sense to anyone but me.
