Art, Symbol & Imagination
The Voice of the Quill: A Bewitched Life Illustration
A pale writer bends over a manuscript while a larger face watches from a bed amid sweeping spectral forms. The printed caption describes a light flashing beneath the writer’s pen and becoming the small voice of the quill. The scene illustrates A Bewitched Life in H. P. Blavatsky’s Nightmare Tales. Reginald Machell’s illustration joins the narrator’s confined body with the extraordinary story appearing before him.
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Reginald Machell. "The Voice of the Quill: A Bewitched Life Illustration" [editorial title]. In Nightmare Tales, H. P. Blavatsky. 1907 Aryan Theosophical Press scan, 1907, The Aryan Theosophical Press. Source scan leaf 20. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0112-0012
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Reginald Machell. The Voice of the Quill: A Bewitched Life Illustration. Nightmare Tales. Scan leaf 20. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0112-0012