Sara Weiss’ Journeys to the Planet Mars (1903)

A Prophet of the Weather: Lantern Slides by Clement Lindley Wragge (ca. 1900–22)

Nature Morte: Chaïm Soutine’s Still Lifes (ca. 1920s)

Raffaele Mainella’s Illustrations for Nos Invisibles (1907)

The Gilded Gallows of Georg Honauer (1597)

Tales of the Catfish God: Earthquakes in Japanese Woodblock Prints (1855)

The Afterimage of Death: Dr. Berkeley's Discovery (1889)

Books Fatal to Their Authors (1895)

Ikkyū in Hell: Skeletons (1692)

A Melting Cauldron: The Book of Hallowe’en (1919)

Your Flannelette Cure: Fire Tests with Textiles (1910)

Eyewitness Accounts of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake

“Though Silent, I Speak”: A Book of Sundial Mottoes (1903)

James Ensor, The Deadly Sins (ca. 1904)

A Bestiary of Loss

Shadows from the Walls of Death (1874)

“Mother Will Be Pleased”: How It Feels to Be Run Over (1900)

The Discarnates: Thomas Carlyle in the Spirit-World (1920)

Jan Luyken’s Frontispiece for Osteologia (1680)

Resurrection on Repeat: Rules and Orders of the Humane Society (1787)

“When London is in Ruins”: Gustave Doré’s The New Zealander (1872)

The Story of Napoleon’s Death Mask (1915)

George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead (1968)

“A Slight Freshness on the Neck”: Prints Depicting the Execution of Louis XVI (ca. 1793)