From Le Rire, 1905.

"The goblin meeting," from Johnnykin and the Goblins, written and illustrated by Charles Leland, 1877.

From an ad for J. & P. Coats' Spool Cotton, c. 1880.

"Satan."  From A History of Caricature and Grotesque in Literature and Art by Thomas Wright, 1875.  Speaking of which, what exactly are a snowball's chances in hell?  See A Snowball's Chance in Hell.

Here's a precursor to "Paris Syndrome," the psychological trauma triggered by that city.  The syndrome was first named in 1986, but of course it's nothing new, and this depiction of it in Lustige Blätter goes all the way back to 1900.

Reblog if this sort of house is your aspiration.  From Boloto, 1905.

Even the banana peel slipped.  From Fliegende Blätter, 1935.

Q: "Ghosts that glide along the shadows—canst thou conjure spirits here?  Unfamiliar forms and faces—hast thou stolen these from time?"  ("Reverie" by Rennell Rodd, in Time, A Monthly Miscellany of Interesting and Amusing Literature, 1884.)

A: Yes.

From Die Muskete, 1938.