When we've been a stranger in town, we've not felt invisible.  But we weren't consulted on this book cover design.  Stranger in Town by Robert Bloomfield.  (Book cover via 54mge.)

Light in Darkness by Sarah Robinson, 1876.

Thanks to Steven Svymbersky, who praised our non-surgical method for How to Be Your Own Cat as "a scientific breakthrough."  Prove it to your own satisfaction, at Quimby's Bookstore in Brooklyn or at Amazon.

Folks with birthdays near holidays tend to receive combination gifts.  But even years themselves suffer this fate.  Here's a Christmas, New-Year, and birthday gift to the year 1851.

Satan[']s Invisible World Discovered by George Sinclair, 1685 [reprinted in 1871].

William Zorach's cover design for Mushrooms by Alfred Kreymborg, 1916.

The author of It Always Rains on Sunday reveals that It Was Christmas Every Day.  By this logic, it always rains on Christmas.  While that goes against common sense, the reasoning is sound.

Theosophy Or Christianity, Which? by Isaac Massey Haldeman, 1893.

Eight question marks and a skull — the cover of a set of John Dickson Carr mystery novels.

Fair and Fatal Warnings, or, Visits from the World of Spirits; Being Concise Relations of the Most Curious and Remarkable Apparitions, Ghosts, Spectres, and Visions, 1810.

The Hour of Death and the Invisible World by H. O. F., 1882.

You've heard of spinning yarns about ghosts, but some such yarns come directly "from the loom of the dead," as we learn in The Shape of Fear, and Other Ghostly Tales by Elia Wilkinson Peattie, 1898.

Ghosts: A Message From the Illuminati, 1906.

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

"He was caught beneath the cover of the book."  From Imaginotions: Truthless Tales by Tudor Jenks, 1894.

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."