Here's a precursor to the Gremlins, from Fors Clavigera by John Ruskin, 1886.

From The Choice Works of Thomas Hood, 1881.

Beware! A Voice from Shadowland by Douglas Dalton, 1887.

People think, "T & A.  Ooh la la!"  But they have ups and downs like all of us, and the reality is that it's long hours and hard work.  Our illustration is from Lower Eatington: Its Manor House and Church, 1880.

From The Barbers' Company by George Lambert, 1882.

From Robert Greene: His Life and Works by Nikolai Storozhenko, 1881.

From The Choice Works of Thomas Hood, 1881.  The parlor game of Klexographie inspired the famous Rorschach inkblot test, and here's our online widget for using inkblots to answer deep questions.

From The Baby's Museum by Uncle Charlie, 1882.

We complain that today's culture is vapid, but here's "a beggarly account of empty boxes" from Dicks' English Library of Standard Works, 1884.

From The Phynodderree, and Other Legends of the Isle of Man by Edward Watson Callow, 1882.

From Robert Greene: His Life and Words by Nikolai Il'ich Storozhenko, 1881.

From Dicks' English Library of Standard Works, 1884.

From Reminiscences of Travel in Australia, America and Egypt by Richard Tangye, 1883.

You've heard of sticking inhuman pins into a voodoo doll, but the old-school sticks human pins into a pseudo doll.  From The Baby's Museum by Uncle Charlie, 1882.

"The unfinished entries in the diary."  From Nasby in Exile by David Ross Locke, 1882.

"Counting up time—which is money," from Dicks' English Library of Standard Works, 1884.

"Daylight and darkness," from Dicks' English Library of Standard Works, 1884.

"And the quiet lake shall feel / The torpid touch of his glazing breath, and ring to the skater's heel."  From Winter Pictures by Poet and Artist, engraved by Edward Whymper, 1881.

From Robert Greene: His Life and Works by Nikolai Storozhenko, 1881.