Gypsy Witch Fortune Teller, Gathered from Authentic Sources by the Queen of the Romanies, 1916.

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."

The Blue: the Entered Apprentice, the Fellow Craft and the Master Mason, 1885.

Trilby, The Fairy of Argyle by Charles Nodier, 1895.

Signs, Omens and Superstitions by Astra Cielo, 1918.

Pinkie and the Fairies by Walford Graham Robertson, 1909, with additional fairy twinkles punched by Indiana University.

You've heard that the art of living is the art of dying.  This book about longevity confirms it -- note the appendix on the pleasure of making a will.

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.)

Nearly a century before Freud's Interpretation of Dreams, there was this Theory of Dreams, 1808.

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

Great title: Painted Shadows by Richard Le Gallienne, 1904.

Life: A Romance by three asterisks, 1844.

Adrift on the Black Wild Tide by James Johnson Kane, 1878.

There's an exclamation point on the cover but a question mark on the title page.  What Can She Do[!/?] by Edward Payson Roe, 1873.