Unbridled Passions: The Eight Horses of King Mu, Son of Heaven (ca. 1300)

Snail Homes, Bog Bodies, and Mechanical Flies: Robert Testard’s Illustrations for Les secretz de l’histoire naturelle (ca. 1485)

Sara Weiss’ Journeys to the Planet Mars (1903)

Deceit and Disrobing: The Schefer Maqāmāt (BNF Arabe 5847, ca. 1237)

Perverse, Grotesque, Sensuous, Inimitable: A Selection of Works by Aubrey Beardsley

“That’s Why We Become Witches”: Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Lolly Willowes (1926)

The Shadow of Desire: Painting the Origins of Art (ca. 1625–1850)

The Mowing-Devil (1678), or, the Earliest Known Depiction of a Crop Circle

Charles Davy’s Conjectural Observations on the Origin and Progress of Alphabetic Writing (1772)

Bernard Sleigh’s Anciente Mappe of Fairyland (ca. 1920 edition)

Photographs of the Samaritan Passover on Mount Gerizim (1917)

Sea Monsters Unmasked and Sea Fables Explained by Henry Lee (1883)

“The Form of a Demon and the Heart of a Person”: Kitagawa Utamaro’s Prints of Yamauba and Kintarō (ca. 1800)

Happy Together: The Laughing Prince: A Book of Jugoslav Fairy Tales and Folk Tales (1921)

Diagramming Dante: Michelangelo Caetani’s Maps of the Divina Commedia (1855/1872)

“Light from the Darkness”: Paul Nash’s Genesis (1924)

Etching of a Sámi Drum from the Dutch Edition of Johannes Schefferus’ Lapponia (1682)

Yellow Silence: Miniature from the Silos Apocalypse (ca. 1100)

Antiquities of Mexico (1831–48)

Programming Prayer: The Woven Book of Hours (1886–87)

Love Spells and Deadly Shrieks: Illustrations of Mandrakes (ca. 650–1927)

Signs and Wonders: Celestial Phenomena in 16th-Century Germany

Grotesqueries at Gethsemane: Marcus Gheeraerts’ Passio Verbigenae (ca. 1580)

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