INSTRUCTIONS: Click to progress through a multi-page teaser for the film The Sea Beast. From The Film Daily, 1926.

Spoiler: the answer following the question posed here is that Death is not only a living entity but also a loving one.  From Ghost Trackers Newsletter, 1989.

Over four decades before Joe Camel, an elephant was a cigarette mascot.  From The Bombay Chronicle, 1945.

"You want drama that burns like a woman's tears? ... the ecstasy of love unbounded?  Try next door!"  An ad for the Marx Bros.' Room Service.  From The Film Daily, 1938.

Great news -- "Life's a bed of roses!"  From The Film Daily, 1941.

"Blossoms in the dust."  From The Film Daily, 1941.

"Steal back your own thunder!"  From The Film Daily, 1941.

Adjusting for inflation, that's $8.08 in today's Canadian dollars.  "Spent a dollar lately and can't remember where or why or on what?"  From The Gateway, 1966.

"The key hole is in the knob."  From Cosmopolitan (1911).

"Watch your own pulse."  From The Film Daily, 1937.

From The Film Daily, 1931.

From The Goblin, 1923.

"There a price on your head.  And you can 'up' it!"  From Thrilling Wonder Stories, 1941.

"Are you an enslaved god?"  From Weird Tales, 1930.

Thought pictures turned into realties.  From Weird Tales, 1931.

"It may be news to you ... but the Egyptians knew it ages ago!"  From Amazing Stories, 1956.

From Collier's, 1948.