"Her hat was blown off, and next instant a detonation rang through her head as though a gun had been fired into her ear."  From A Book of Ghosts by S. Baring-Gould, 1904.

"The Ghost walks.  He ought to have 'tucked in his twopenny,' though."  From Judy, Or The London Serio-Comic Journal, 1873.

"The night has a thousand eyes," from 1911.

The "chicken or the egg?" riddle would seem to miss the point.  This ad from J. Bolgiano & Son's seed catalog, 1921, shows that the chick precedes the egg but that both are preceded by Oculum (a germicide).

"I am who I am, but there are always two sides to every face.  For me, one is a myth, the other a legend" (Clair McIntyre, Shadowy Stillness).  Photo as scanned by the Costică Acsinte Archive.

"Scream of Tartar," from c. 1890.

Here's the radio pram of 1921.

From A Modern Atalanta, written and illustrated by Maud J. Vyse, 1897.

"He gets paid to take chances.  You don't."  From Illinois Agricultural Association Record, 1949.

Here's a precursor to the film and manga series Uzumaki.  "You walk round and round and round the post."  From Everybody's Magazine, 1908.

INSTRUCTIONS: Click to bring on the night.

"The night stalkers are those that when in sunlight show their true age" (Kyra Gates, Walkers, 2011).  Illustration date uncertain.

Lobster King Harry Hackney and his lobsters in waiting.  From 1943.

From The Dover Road by Charles George Harper, 1922.

Click to reveal the psychedelic moire distortion we removed from this illustration.
"The whole picture tottered and swayed and … fell face forwards."
From "The Temptation of Dulce Carruthers" by C. E. C. Weigall, in Cassell's 1891.