"So many rows done, so many to be done—ah! Yes, 'tis March 30." From Cured by an Incurable by Philip Bennett Power and illustrated by Edmund Fitzpatrick, 1888.

"The Comet and the Glowworm": an illustration from an 1874 issue of The Quiver magazine.

An illustration from a 1904 issue of The Reader magazine.

An illustration from The Tomahawk (August 31, 1867).

"The Whisper in the Night": an illustration from an 1887 issue of Frank Leslie's Pleasant Hours magazine.

An illustration from an 1870 issue of The Tomahawk magazine.

An illustration from an 1890 issue of The Quiver magazine.  The caption reads: "There was nothing—nothing there!"

An illustration from an 1889 issue of The Quiver magazine.  The caption reads: "The Doctor read with all his eyes."

An illustration from a 1907 issue of The Reader magazine.  The caption reads: "'Your dope is some wrong,' said the shade. 'Did you ever hear that every person had two minds?'"

We're delighted to see our atlas of blank maps profiled at the Bibliotheca Invisibilis, which collects all sorts of conceptualizations of the invisible.

"There is only one key ... and that is all keys in one." —Rupert Hughes, Żal: An International Romance (1905)

An illustration from an 1887 issue of Frank Leslie's Pleasant Hours magazine.  The caption reads: "The sexton's ghost.—'He saw something move.  It was a tall figure, and it tottered weakly toward the gate on which he leaned."

An illustration from a 1900 issue of The Lady's Realm magazine.  The caption reads: "It was like a bad dream."

A rose, rather, is the beginning, a form that can be an infusion of metaphors and ideas that are bigger than itself.

An illustration from The Annals of Psychical Science, vol. 7 (1908).  The caption reads: "Giving heed to seducing spirits."

An illustration from a 1900 issue of The Lady's Realm magazine.