We're delighted to learn that Fiona Lang is "listening carefully for imaginary beasts," as per our Field Guide to Identifying Unicorns by Sound.  Lang is a writer in the Scottish Highlands who studies the intersections of the human and animal worlds as well as the uneasy lands that lie between what is real and what is imagined.

From Die Muskete, 1938.

"The faces made me shiver."  From English Illustrated, 1907.

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"That's your misfortune, and not your fault."  From Dickens' The Mystery of Edwin Drood.

"Wake up old man," from 1907.

"In Winter Dress."  Blue Jay, California.  Date unknown.

A, B & C (or, technically, A, C & B -- the logo of Adam and Charles Black publishers, London, 1913).

Said he, coldly, "What have you done with that horse?", from Cassell's, 1896.

"Ha! Tis he, the Maltese. Me rival," 1881.

An illustration from a 1906 issue of Puck magazine.   Speaking of which, what exactly are a snowball's chances in hell?  See A Snowball's Chance in Hell.

"He took in a card to explain the second ring," from Pearson's, 1910.

We spotted this spelling of "chaos" on the Drudge Report.  Indeed, "chaos" must be misspelled in order to be properly chaotic.

Here's a precursor to the "Beating Heart" ghost bride in Disneyland's Haunted Mansion attic.  From Jugend, 1896.

From Mocca, 1936.  We previously saw another deck of cards playing strip poker with itself.