It's a brittle thing, to be sure.  Life Beyond the Grave: Described by a Spirit Through a Writing Medium, 1877.

You may recall that great vintage piece about letters being discovered at a high altitude (link to image here), but here are letters from high latitudes.

Here is depicted, front and center, one of the vanished corners of bygone Glasgow.  We can now confirm that it is 100% accurate.

Here's the old cover of Modern Power Generators.  We actually explain how to turn any yearbook into a power generator, in How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

Creep, Shadow! by A. Merritt, 1934.

There are those who would have you believe Shakespeare isn't all that puzzling.  No Cipher in Shakespeare by Aldwell Nicholson, 1888.

You may take a chance and get lucky in a library, but note the red sticker: serendipities that happen in the library must stay in the library.

From 1895.

Many will be delighted to know that both diamonds and toads have been appended to the seven champions of Christendom (1825).

Walter Besant, The Charm (1896).

Here's !!! (a.k.a. Exclamation Point, Exclamation Point, Exclamation Point or Three Exclamation Points by George Hughes Hepworth, 1881).

Lilith by George MacDonald, illusrated by G. F. Scotson-Clark.

Looking Ahead (1892) is not by the author of Looking Backward.

The Haunted Room, a Tale by ALOE.

Here's a book on degeneration that's deteriorating.  Degeneration by Max Simon Nordau, 1895.

The King in Yellow, by Robert W. Chambers.

Here's a precursor to I Married a Dead Man by Cornell Woolrich a.k.a William Irish.  It's The Bride of a Ghost by Joseph Jones, 1883.

Isn't it disconcerting when your book reads you back?  From The Actress of Padua by Richard Penn Smith, 1836.

A Century of Charades by William Bellamy.