Someone should write All the Stages of Mame: How to Live Your Life Like a Crazy Homosexual.  —Justin Sayre

From Die Muskete, 1927.

Light in Darkness, 1864.

Here's a collection of Christmas ghosts, our favorite being the ghost of the picture gallery, at the center.  From Judy, Or The London Serio-Comic Journal, 1884.  This will also be of interest: The Collected Lost Meanings of Christmas.

From Fun magazine, 1886.

Here's a nurse stabbing a dragon holding the globe, from Italy, 1920.

"A mermaid up the spout."  From "At the Sign of the 'Golden Pills': Pawnbroking Mysteries," illustrated by Fred Barnard for Cassell's, 1894.

Walter Besant, The Charm (1896).

Artist unknown, ca 1900.  A scan by Nasjonalbiblioteket.  This will also be of interest: The Collected Lost Meanings of Christmas.

"Mount Etna, snow-capped, by moonlight."  Colour aquatint, 1815.

"Can until you can't," from American Forestry, 1919.

"The Enchanted Moors," from Virginia Illustrated, illustrated by Porte Crayon, 1857.

Here's a precursor to the song "Crimson and Clover."

"A total eclipse to the girl and a partial eclipse to the boy," from Star-Land by Robert Stawell Ball, 1892.

You've heard that Christmas goes on too long, but the sentiment isn't a new one, as we see in Cartoons Magazine, 1917.  The caption reads, "You get out of here just as quick as you can."  This will also be of interest: The Collected Lost Meanings of Christmas.