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)

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

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

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

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

Photographs of the Samaritan Passover on Mount Gerizim (1917)

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

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)

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)

Ikkyū in Hell: Skeletons (1692)

Käthe Kollwitz’s Peasants’ War Series (ca. 1901–1908)

Hokusai’s Illustrated Warrior Vanguard of Japan and China (1836)

Medieval Illustrations of Bonnacons