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.

From Mocca, 1937.

From Die Bühne, 1925.

"The devil playing at spinning-top with a French lawyer."  From Legends and Miracles and Other Curious and Marvellous Stories of Human Nature by James Elimalet Smith, 1837.

"A bull and an umbrella."  From In the Sky-Garden by Lizzie W. Champney and illustrated by J. Wells Champney, 1877.

A picture of Svengali used to induce hypnotic trance, from Suggestive Therapeutics and Hypnotism by Herbert A. Parkyn, 1900.

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"A night for wide-awake dreaming," from The Index, 1908.

"Behind an oaken table sat three hooded shadows."  From Torn From Its Foundations by David Ker and illustrated by A. Pearse, 1902.

Ginger ale induces some morbid hallucinations.  From Life, 1920.

From Among the Freaks by William Livingston Alden, 1896.

"The most dangerous hour."  From Popular Mechanics, 1928.

From Die Bühne, 1925. 

From Die Muskete, 1938.

"Heaven [from all creatures], hides the book of fate."  From A Brief English Grammar with Illustrations and Diagrams by Stephen Watkins Clark, 1876.

Hypnotizing one another, from Suggestive Therapeutics and Hypnotism by Herbert A. Parkyn, 1900.

You've seen the famous image of the dog Nipper listening to "his master's voice" in the gramophone.  Twenty-five years later, Nipper's master finally extracted himself.  From Kladderadatsch, 1924.

He's either carrying the universe on his back or is trying to remove a medicinal plaster … or both.  From Judge's Library, 1895.

You've heard of "less than one percent."  Here's what it looks like.  From Popular Mechanics, 1927.

From Mocca, 1931.

"The barrel of pease."  From The Cunning Woman's Grandson by Charlotte M. Yonge, 1889.

"Pinned him to the wall like a butterfly on a cork," from Ghosts I Have Met and Some Others by John Kendrick Bangs, 1898.

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From an 1862 issue of Fun magazine.

"The knight in the dance of death."  From A History of Caricature and Grotesque in Literature and Art by Thomas Wright, 1875.

A quarter century before the octopus-like deity Cthulhu, there was Saint Crustaceon.  From Pearson's, 1902.

Two tearful moments from Life, 1920.

"Here is pianist who practices and plays concert music while wearing heavy woolen mittens."  From Popular Mechanics, 1933.

From The Magical Land of Noom, written and illustrated by Johnny Gruelle, 1922. 

Hypnosis by imaginary fumes, from Suggestive Therapeutics and Hypnotism by Herbert A. Parkyn, 1900.

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From Grip, 1890.

"Man's form made by waterfall."  From Popular Mechanics, 1909.

From Mocca, 1930.  This should also be of interest: How to Be Your Own Cat.

Why most writers have lived in haunted houses and dreamed the wrong dreams.  From What Do Women Want? by Erica Jong, 2007.

Revealed -- how we furniture shop.  From Kladderadatsch, 1924.