Felix Fontaine's Golden Wheel Fortune Teller and Dream Book, 1862.

Spell-Bound by M. A. Bird, 1865.

The Voices of the Stars by James Edward Walker, 1894.

The Haunted Fountain by Margaret Sutton.

The Vanishing Shadow by Margaret Sutton.

When we've been a stranger in town, we've not felt invisible.  But we weren't consulted on this book cover design.  Stranger in Town by Robert Bloomfield.  (Book cover via 54mge.)

Light in Darkness by Sarah Robinson, 1876.

William Zorach's cover design for Mushrooms by Alfred Kreymborg, 1916.

The author of It Always Rains on Sunday reveals that It Was Christmas Every Day.  By this logic, it always rains on Christmas.  While that goes against common sense, the reasoning is sound.

Theosophy Or Christianity, Which? by Isaac Massey Haldeman, 1893.

Eight question marks and a skull — the cover of a set of John Dickson Carr mystery novels.

Fair and Fatal Warnings, or, Visits from the World of Spirits; Being Concise Relations of the Most Curious and Remarkable Apparitions, Ghosts, Spectres, and Visions, 1810.

You've heard of spinning yarns about ghosts, but some such yarns come directly "from the loom of the dead," as we learn in The Shape of Fear, and Other Ghostly Tales by Elia Wilkinson Peattie, 1898.

Here's a title page that wonders about the identity of its own author.  Plus, note the genre, which is our own personal favorite: "serio-ludicro, tragico-comico."

If you can't say, "I lava you," it's not a volcanic romance.  From The Phantom CIty, A Volcanic Romance by William Westall, 1886.

From The Phantom Future by Hugh Stowell Scott, 1897.

Seeing the number 7 stuck to Lady Barbarity, we wondered about the "barbarity of luck."  That phrase is a Googlewhack!

The Mysterious Half Cat by Margaret Sutton.  You, too, can be half a cat, if you follow just the first half of How to Be Your Own Cat.

When we saw the cover to Model for Murder, we immediately recognized the inspiration: the beloved film Burn, Witch, Burn!  (Book cover courtesy of 54mge.)

Dissertations Upon the Apparitions of Angels, Daemons, and Ghosts - And Concerning the Vampires of Hungary, Bohemia, Moravia, and Silesia by Augustin Calmet, 1759.