Fair and Fatal Warnings, or, Visits from the World of Spirits; Being Concise Relations of the Most Curious and Remarkable Apparitions, Ghosts, Spectres, and Visions, 1810.

The Hour of Death and the Invisible World by H. O. F., 1882.

You've heard of spinning yarns about ghosts, but some such yarns come directly "from the loom of the dead," as we learn in The Shape of Fear, and Other Ghostly Tales by Elia Wilkinson Peattie, 1898.

Ghosts: A Message From the Illuminati, 1906.

Gypsy Witch Fortune Teller, Gathered from Authentic Sources by the Queen of the Romanies, 1916.

Here's a title page that wonders about the identity of its own author.  Plus, note the genre, which is our own personal favorite: "serio-ludicro, tragico-comico."

The Blue: the Entered Apprentice, the Fellow Craft and the Master Mason, 1885.

Trilby, The Fairy of Argyle by Charles Nodier, 1895.

Signs, Omens and Superstitions by Astra Cielo, 1918.

Pinkie and the Fairies by Walford Graham Robertson, 1909, with additional fairy twinkles punched by Indiana University.

You've heard that the art of living is the art of dying.  This book about longevity confirms it -- note the appendix on the pleasure of making a will.

If you can't say, "I lava you," it's not a volcanic romance.  From The Phantom CIty, A Volcanic Romance by William Westall, 1886.

From The Phantom Future by Hugh Stowell Scott, 1897.

Seeing the number 7 stuck to Lady Barbarity, we wondered about the "barbarity of luck."  That phrase is a Googlewhack!

The Mysterious Half Cat by Margaret Sutton.  You, too, can be half a cat, if you follow just the first half of How to Be Your Own Cat.

When we saw the cover to Model for Murder, we immediately recognized the inspiration: the beloved film Burn, Witch, Burn!  (Book cover courtesy of 54mge.)

Nearly a century before Freud's Interpretation of Dreams, there was this Theory of Dreams, 1808.

Dissertations Upon the Apparitions of Angels, Daemons, and Ghosts - And Concerning the Vampires of Hungary, Bohemia, Moravia, and Silesia by Augustin Calmet, 1759.