An illustration from a 1906 issue of The Bystander magazine.  The caption reads: "And the damned grotesques danced arabesques."

From Prof. Oddfellow's sketchbook:

"To read is to risk making one's self vulnerable, to risk encountering what Wayne Booth has called 'the otherness that bites.'" —Megan O'Neill, Popular Culture (2001)

Note the hidden faces in the branches and rocks in this illustration from an 1884 issue of Puck magazine.

An illustration from a 1922 issue of Scribner's magazine.  The caption reads: "The Ghost Trees"

An illustration from a 1908 issue of Life magazine.

An illustration from a 1907 issue of The Windsor magazine.  The caption reads: "A dull, unearthly glare surrounded it."

An illustration from a 1901 issue of McClure's magazine.  The caption reads: "Forward again, by the dim, intermittent light of the moon and stars, through the ghostly, haunted forest."

An illustration from a 1903 issue of McClure's magazine.

Santa Claus is depicted as a young wood nymph in this illustration from an 1891 issue of The Strand magazine.

An illustration from an 1896 issue of English Illustrated magazine.  The caption reads: "I stumbled to my knees; but something held me—something which bound me like a web in a thousand strong silky meshes."

"Keep out of these woods":  an illustration from a 1922 issue of Century Illustrated magazine.

The title of this volume proves the old saying: "He couldn't see the forest for the trees"!