"30 and I felt old.  'Weak nerves' were robbing me of my vitality."  From The Bombay Chronicle, 1937.

From Tufts University's 1998 yearbook.

From The Book of Betty Barber by Maggie Browne and illustrated by Arthur Rackham, 1914.

From the College of William and Mary's 1923 yearbook.

From Purple Parrot, 1927.

From Washington State University's 1947 yearbook.

The barren landscape of censorship.  From Photoplay Magazine, 1920.

From Oberlin College's 1936 yearbook.

From Mythical Monsters by Charles Gould, 1886.

"When in Los Angeles, have your eyes examined."  From Improvement Era, 1930.

The frozen Viscountess Vitchm'call sings the blues, inspired by comedian John Dimes.

Parody analog horror meets 1970s tropes (like pet rocks, lava lamps, disco music, bell-bottom pants, mirror balls, and of course mood rings) in the web series Grave Mood Rings. It pokes fast fun at classic slow-moving Gothic soap operas like Dark Shadows and the Canadian series Strange Paradise. In addition to a vampiric Viscount, a castle is home to a groovy Doctor (a phlebotomist, naturally), a jolly housekeeper with her own laugh track, a werewolf Vicar, and an arch-nemesis riddler wearing a Sphinx mask. Corny wordplay, the occasional bizarre sing-a-long, and haunted doughnuts punctuate the proceedings, in the tradition of the sketch comedy of MadTV, Kids in the Hall, and SCTV.

From Life on a Medieval Barony by William Stearns Davis, 1923.

From Travel By Air, Land, and Sea by Hanson Hart Webster, 1933.

From Fort Wayne Works News, 1949.

From Microcosm, 1974.

From Flying Plover by G. E. Theodore Roberts and illustrated by Charles Livingston Bull, 1909.

"Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes.  I'm afraid it's time for goodbye again."  From Salve Regina University's 2002 yearbook.

From The Cat Who Saw Stars by Lilian Jackson Braun.

From Northland Trails by Syndey Ells, 1900.

"There's an end to grief.  It ends in despair."  From Dark Shadows episode 430.