The Mystic Ball by Margaret Sutton, 1934.

Under a Cloud, or Stranger Things Have Happened by Thomas Street Millington, 1883.

From The Apparition by Arthur Montagu Brookfield, 1884.

I found a pressed 6-leaf clover hiding in an expensive rare book.  A few years ago, I purchased, for an exorbitant $128, what was promised (original typo: primrosed) to be the most unusual travel account ever published -- the surrealist painter Ithell Colquhoun's exploration of the eerie magic of the Irish countryside, The Crying of the Wind.  (It hadn't yet been republished in softcover; I was a year too early!)  I'd been sufficiently impressed by Colquhoun's dreamy occult novel Goose of Hermogenes to trust that the travel book would beguile me.  It did!  And though I can't help but wonder why the Universe tricked me into spending $128 just before the softcover came out, I do know that a new softcover wouldn't have had a pressed 6-leaf clover, so perhaps it all somehow works out in the end.

"From Darkness Into Light."  From The Life Beyond the Veil by George Vale Owen, 1921.

The Phantom Friend by Margaret Sutton.

The Brightener by Alice Muriel Williamson & Charles Norris Williamson, 1921.

A Disillusioned Occultist by Charles Edward Barns, 1889.

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.

From Satan, His Origin, Work, and Destiny by Carlyle B. Haynes, 1920.  Speaking of which, what exactly are a snowball's chances in hell?  See A Snowball's Chance in Hell.

Emerson once said that books are noble, and here's proof.  By Emma Jane Worboise, 1871.

The Haunted Fountain by Margaret Sutton.

If you guessed this title to be The Golden Key, give yourself a round of applause.  By Nettie M. Pease, 1871.

Six Rehearsal-less Entertainments by Alice Louise Williams Chaplin, 1921.

The Vanishing Shadow by Margaret Sutton.

"Scenes That Are Brighter."  From The Life Beyond the Veil by George Vale Owen, 1921.