Immortal Beloved: Krishna and Rādhā Exchanging Clothes (ca. 1700–1900)

Paul Carus’ The History of the Devil and the Idea of Evil (1899)

The Alchemical Transformations of the Mutus Liber (1677)

“There is Nothing but Immortality!”: Walt Whitman and The Book of Heavenly Death (1905)

Metamorphosis: Transformations in the Early Modern Flap Book (early 19th century)

“The Persian Mâr-Nâmeh or, The Book for Taking Omens from Snakes” (1892)

Diagrams for Travel from the Qanoon-e-Islam (1832)

The Prophecies of the Brahan Seer (1877)

Elizabeth I’s Manuscript Copy of Pierre Boaistuau’s Histoires Prodigieuses (1559)

Wayang Kulit: Raden Soelardi’s Illustrations of Javanese Puppets (1919)

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)