An illustration from a 1907 issue of Good Housekeeping magazine.

An illustration from a 1903 issue of Life magazine.  The caption reads: "Hallowe'en and candle-light.  Show me my true love to-night."

An illustration from an 1892 issue of Harper's magazine.  The caption reads: "Hey, black cat!  Hey, my pretty black cat!"

An illustration from an 1897 issue of The Strand magazine.  The caption reads: "The human obstacle."

An illustration from a 1912 issue of Harper's magazine.  The caption reads: "In a great illumination of the spirit he trembled and was astonished."

An illustration from an 1890 issue of Cosmopolitan magazine.  The caption reads: "I think his satanic majesty himself sends a special messenger sometimes to preside over a woman's toilet."

Dedicated to Teresa Burritt.

An illustration from an 1892 issue of Century Illustrated magazine.  The caption reads: "Conjuring back the buffalo."

"A rose is a rose is an onion."
—Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)

A ghostly illustration from an 1883 issue of Harper's magazine.  The caption reads: "The apparition."

A precursor to the 2001: A Space Odyssey monolith, from Punch, 1851.

"The Death of Death":  an illustration by Cyril Goldie in an 1899 issue of Quartier Latin magazine.

An illustration from an 1896 issue of Cosmopolitan magazine.  The caption reads: "The ball took the eye out of the portrait of our great-grandfather who came over the Mayflower."

An illustration from an 1894 issue of Pall Mall magazine.  The caption reads: "My library did not seem to afford him the kind of reading matter he craved."

An illustration from an 1871 issue of Godey's magazine.  The caption reads: "Where is the night key?"

An illustration from a 1916 issue of Harper's magazine.  The caption reads: "Life itself is only a vision, a dream."

Today, we might liken an experience to "something out of a movie."  But back in 1872, things were different. "'Why this is like a book, isn't it?' said she" (Century Illustrated).

In the grand manner of spirit photography we see two spectral ladies join the pair when the Google scanner catches some sanguine bleed through.  Illustration from an 1847 issue of Godey's magazine.

An illustration from a 1901 issue of Harper's magazine.  The caption reads: "So haunted at moonlight with bat and owl and ghostly moth."

An illustration from a 1900 issue of Cosmopolitan magazine.  The caption reads: "Mr. Hunt observes the fate of the hypnotist."