An old illusion in which the dead rise again.  From Spook Crooks by Julien J. Proskauer, 1932.

"The devil and the glutton."  From The Grotesque in Church Art by T. Tindall Wildridge, 1899.

From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

It's like my nightmares about being back in school.  "In the next three days, we'll ask this young man 1,751 very important questions."  From Together magazine, 1967.

A fateful drawing of a card: it's Prof. Oddfellow's Penetralia.

From Misha and Masha, written and illustrated by Pearl Binder, 1936.

We've previously noted the mysterious phenomenon that rows of dots or asterisks in a text invariably illustrate what came before or comes after.  Here are three random examples from the same book: the first row of dots represents the holes in a belt mentioned above them, the second row represents the holes in the blanket of night that allow stars to peek through, and the third row represents a series of gunshots.  Watch for the phenomenon -- it never fails!

From The Land Where the Sunsets Go by Orville Henry Leonard, 1917.

"To err is human; to forgive is not company policy."  This is as early an appearance of this saying as we've been able to find.  (The next oldest being from 1974.)    From the University of South Carolina at Spartanburg's 1972 yearbook.

From Igla, 1906.

Only in rare cases does a peacock feather make one a mystic, but there are worse things about this yearbook.  From Lenoir-Rhyne's 1973 yearbook.

From The Link, 1968.

Hidden secrets revealed!  The irresistible & the immovable.  From Tulane's 1921 yearbook.

An illustration by G. Jahn.  From der Guckkasten, 1912.

From North Central's 1926 yearbook.

From The Mayans, 1936.