A portrait of a British novelist at home:  an illustration from an 1899 issue of The Idler magazine.

An illustration from a 1905 issue of Wide World magazine.  The caption reads: "I was soon enveloped in the fiery tongues of flame."

An illustration from a 1907 issue of The Windsor magazine.  The caption reads: "A dull, unearthly glare surrounded it."

Here's a precursor to the spooky wallpaper in Disneyland's Haunted Mansion, from a 1904 issue of Good Housekeeping magazine.  This illustration prefigures the work of M.C. Escher by about three decades.

An illustration from an 1862 issue of Punch magazine.

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 a 1911 issue of Good Housekeeping magazine.  The caption reads: "The ceremony of 'Berrying' the Ghost.  Observe the berries in the children's hands."

Did you know the "sexy nun" costume goes back at least to 1879?  From Punch.

An illustration of a battily smiling moon from a 1901 issue of Harper's magazine.

Here's a vintage "Miss October," had Playboy been founded in 1895.  This illustration appeared in The Idler.

An illustration from an 1899 issue of Pall Mall magazine.

"Who are you?": an illustration from an 1897 issue of English Illustrated magazine.

"A Strange Valentine": an illustration from an 1883 issue of Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly magazine.  The caption reads: "Sprinkling the pulverized herbs over the fire, and with her eyes fixed on the bright moon, she pronounced, in an extremely tremulous voice, the invocation."

An illustration from a 1901 issue of Cosmopolitan magazine.  The caption reads: "Drawing a mystic half-circle on the floor."

An illustration from a 1919 issue of Harper's magazine.

Witchy illustrations from Harper's magazine, 1859 and 1860.

An illustration from an 1878 issue of Harper's magazine.  The caption reads: "A brocken witch."