From Current Sauce, 1986.

All hell broken loose: the devil’s demonic minions..

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Via UFO Newsclipping Service, 1997.

UFOs, aliens, and things that go gzpxllztt in the night: this vintage UFO gallery is worth an encounter. (For the meaning of “gzpxllztt,” see the dictionary of all-consonant words.)

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From The Cats’ Arabian Nights by Abby Morton Diaz, 1881.

My collection of rats and mice, some giant, some playing while the cat’s away.

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Vintage Kitten Illustrations

from Happy Kitty Bunny Pony: A Saccharine Mouthful of Super Cute, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2005.

From The Lighted Pathway, 1982.

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From Scribner’s 1879.

Egyptologists might appreciate my unusual collection of vintage Egyptian and mummy imagery.

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From Beyond Fantasy Fiction, 1954.

My modest collection of vintage horror imagery is screaming along.

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Separated at Birth?

Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing. See the original post for photo source details.

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From The Cats’ Arabian Nights by Abby Morton Diaz, 1881.

My collection of rats and mice, some giant, some playing while the cat’s away.

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From Purple Parrot, 1927.

Here’s my seasonal collection of vintage (mostly weird) fashion.

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From Today Is Here by Don Blanding.

From mountain climbers to mountain spirits, mountain temples to mountains in the sky, here’s my range of vintage mountains.

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1960s poster

1960s

From Lighted Pathway, 1958.

Newsworthy: a collection of weird and bad headlines.

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From The Century, 1887.

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A “nocorn” from the Wizardry III: Legacy of Llylgamyn handbook.

Here are the vintage unicorns I’ve encountered.

And don’t miss A Field Guide to Identifying Unicorns by Sound.

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Illustration on the menu of The Berkeley (1924). The Berkeley is a five-star hotel in Wilton Place, Knightsbridge, London.

Le Chat Botté, from The Illustrated London News by Kay Nielsen (1913)

The Wounded Dragon, from European Folk and Fairy Tales by John D. Batten (1916)