An illustration from A Diplomatist's Wife in Japan by Mary Crawford Fraser (1899).  The caption reads: "The rabbit and the monkey who live in the moon."

An illustration from Incwadi Yami or Twenty Years' Personal Experience in South Africa by Josiah Wright Matthews (1887).

An illustration from Comic History of Greece by Charles Snyder (1898).  The caption reads: "Ulysses invokes the shades."

"The big sky-man that makes the moons," from Red Apple and Silver Bells by Hamish Hendry and illustrated by Alice B. Woodward, 1899.

An illustration from Stanley in Afrika's Donkere Wildernissen by Henry Morten Stanley (1890).

An illustration from Poems by Charles Rosher (1897).

An illustration from The Star of the Sea by N. Gregor (1897).  The caption reads: "Sometimes he was heard returning to this world, shrieking in his passage through the air, and reascending to the skies again."

From Danmarks, Norges og Sverigs Historie by Niels Bache, 1867.

"The Piasa": an illustration from Mr. Eagle's U.S.A. as Seen in a Buggy Ride of 1400 Miles from Illinois to Boston by John Livingston  Wright (1898).

The eater of dreams from Kottō, Being Japanese Curios, with Sundry Cobwebs by Lafcadio Hearn (1910).

A deep-sea diver encounters a thriving community of merfolk, from Punch, 1866.

This ominous sphinx appears in Puck, 1883.

This auroral priestess, the "Siren of the Pole," appears in The Idler, 1897.

An illustration from an 1898 issue of Cosmopolitan magazine.