From Scribner's 1878.

The "tick" and "tock" of a grandfather clock mean "forever" and "never."  From The Lover's Baedeker and Guide to Arcady by Carolyn Wells and illustrated by A. D. Blashfield, 1912.

From Ghost Stories, 1931.  For haunted clockwork music, see Neons Gone Mad's page.

Rare to see a grandfather clock mistaken for a cuckoo clock.  From Goldilocks and the Three Bears by Lyle Stevenson Cummins, 1923.

From Tennessee Wesleyan's 1949 yearbook.

"The clock beckoned to John."  From Health Habits by S. Weir Newmayer and Edwin C. Broome.

Few ever bother to ask how anyone knew for certain that the mouse ran up the clock in the old nursery rhyme.  It turns out that there were three witnesses.  From Mother Goose Secrets by Barbara Webb Bourjaily, 1925.

We have one of these: see our video about the clock and its uncanny hauntedness, here.

From Astounding, 1945.

We restored a grandfather clock that possesses a ghostly feature.  Thanks to Grumpy Andrew, of Grumpy Andrew's House of Horror, who said, "Wonderful! Oh that was a balm for my soul."  Meanwhile, to whatever pathetic soul thumbed-down our video, we'd ask to see what grand illusion you built from scratch this week, but —oh, that's right! — you didn't.  But you made us feel even more fabulous, so — lest we disappoint you — the thumbs-down didn't discourage at all but rather set us apart from you!  Thanks for social-distancing!  We feel safer now.

From Bradley's 1943 yearbook.

From The Judge, 1912.

In these two images, four steps span an entire lifetime.  This is a precursor to Philip K. Dick's Ubik.  From Henderson-Brown's 1913 yearbook.

If your life today is unpredictable enough that you might possibly find yourself diving into a grandfather clock, over a chair with human feet that is disguised as a sheet ghost, then reblog.  From Le Journal Amusant, 1876.

"Under the clock."  From Fun magazine, 1885.

"Stay, morning has not come, / and night has not closed. / Time grows thin, / the two to be equalled, / and quiet returns" —A Gabriela Mistral Reader, 1993.  Our thin grandfather clock appears in Chambers's New Geographical Readers, 1891.