From the highly cursed Nightmare Land by G. Orr Clark and illustrated by Caroline Love Goodwin, 1901.

May you not see yourself in "the bad place" when you fall asleep tonight.  From The Gates of the Future Thrown Open by Carlotta de Barsy, 1899.

"But when sleep does come, a strange mist seeps in through the open window."  From Forbidden Worlds, number 20.

From St. Nicholas, 1913.

From Twice a Week, 1862.

Reblog if you are rudely awakened by the night mares of poetry and original ideas.  From Phillips University's 1919 yearbook.

No peaceful dreams that night.  From Spellbound, 1977.  (Courtesy of Archive.org.)

From The Gateway, 1986.

From Woroni, 1979.

From Due West's 1920 yearbook.

"Welcome to my nightmare."  From The Gateway, 1979.

Haunted by the ghosts of murdered turkeys, post-Thanksgiving.  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1906.

From Unknown Worlds, 1943.

A kitten's nightmare of two dogs.  From Three Little Kittens, written and illustrated by Katherine Pyle, 1920.