"Adela is fast asleep, her mouth half open, her face relaxed and absent; but her closed lids are transparent, and on their thin parchment the night is writing its pact with the devil, half text, half picture, full of erasures, corrections, and scribbles." —Bruno Schulz, Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass

"When Molly had let in a ray of light," from A Smile within a Tear by Helen Guendolen Ramsden, 1897.

"It's happening.  Yes.  It absolutely is."

"Don't take this the wrong way, but I can tell you're not done with this. You still have things to discover, even though you don't know it yet."

"Into the mouthpiece of the machine I spoke, asking, 'Do you hear me?'"  From The Story Hunter or Tales of the Weird and Wild by Ernest Richard Suffling, 1896.  [For Gordon Meyer.]

A rose may be a rose may be a rose; but not this one.

"Some of the marvels which Sir John Mandeville saw," from Half-Hours with the Early Explorers by Thomas Frost, 1873.

From Lays of Modern Oxford by Anon., 1874.

Satan dressed as a lady of the eleventh century, from The National and Domestic History of England by William Hickman Smith Aubrey, 1878.

From The Adventures of Prince Prigio and of His Son, Prince Ricardo by Andrew Lang, 1900.

From The Devil's Case by Robert Williams Buchanan, 1896.

Here's a precursor to the winged monkeys in The Wizard of Oz, from an ad in the back of the novel A Woman with a History by Weedon Grossmith (1896).

A flourish of trumpets from The Man in the Moon, Volume V.

This precursor to Mary Poppins appears in Fra Det Moderne Frankrig by Richard Kaufmann, 1882.

"I say, Rawhead," quoth one of the Ghosts, in a hollow, sepulchral tone, "you're cheating!"