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The giants tore up trees
Dark brown fantasy watercolour border
Winged Skeleton with Hourglass on a Tombstone
11. Seal of Gusion.
Skeleton with Banner
Catherine de Medici in front of the magic mirror of her astrologer Cosimo Ruggieri
Wolfsthal Castle: Last view from Austria
Decorative clip-art Victorian border, antique green
Stoke Pogis Churchyard
Edward Kelly, A Magician
Begging Monk at the Door of a Mosque
Sir Isaac Newton
Quinta Giustiniani en Pádua
Stock block: deer skull
Little people at the door—wallpaper
53.8.—IHS
Hop-o-My-Thumb: The miniature children arrived at the house
Fig. 41.—Un loculus ouvert. (A loculus, or Roman tomb, open.)
A Tower of Silence
Dark Passion Flowers
September Harvest Page Template.
The Witch
O Earth, how like to Heaven, if not preferred More justly
Armillary Sphere, Scanned Version
Then Satan First Knew Pain
Rosenthal’s Elaine.
Initial letter T with sundial and scythe
Historiated decorative initial capital letter M in Blue
Ornate Victorian border or frame
Zpíval Slavik (A Nightingale Sang)
Padalo listí (fallen leaves)
clipart: initial letter S from late 15th century printed book
Zvetly Fialky (Violets were blooming)
528.—Prior Rahere’s Tomb.
Jailer walking into the dark
Full-page border with hearts and moons
525.—The Crypt, St. Bartholomew’s Church.
Panik! Detail: Medusa
Dunstan and the Devil
Floriated initial capital letter  “S”
Open Bible and cross in graveyard (portrait version)
Iron cross and open book on grave
Open Bible and cross in graveyard
Free clip-art: Victorian border of twigs and leaves
Open book with hint of tombs
1275.—Tomb of Sir John Crosby.
Ruins and tombs and withred grass
Clip-art: calligraphic decorative initial capital letter R from XIV. Century  No. 1
The Picket’s Off Duty Forever
The Owl
Evil Demons: The head of an evil demon
The Virgin Mary
Vessels of Wrath: The Incubus
The Columbarium.
The Old Ruined Abbey
Free clip-art: Eighteenth-century Border from Figures pour les Missels
Evil Daemons: Mammon
Evil Daemons: Astaroth
Decorative clip-art Victorian border, antique brown
Silent they stood
Do not eat the bat.
Cherub wth harvest fruit
Clip-art: calligraphic decorative initial capital letter B from XIV. Century  No. 1
The Ancient Yew
The Condition of the Turkey
In a Gloomy Wood
The Catacombs at Palermo
Free clip-art: Victorian border of brown twigs and green leaves
Gnomes hide under toadstools
The Patchwork Girl
Plate XV.—Anatomy.
Decorative initial (drop cap) D
There Sleeps Titania
There Sleeps Titania (detail without the frame)
Frontispiece: Burkard Keller of Yburg.
Purple Victorian Vine-leaf Border
163. Skeleton with Shovel
164. Skeleton with Skull
Clip-art: calligraphic decorative initial capital letter D from XIV. Century  No. 1
18. Five Skulls
606. The quivering brain.
Stone Henge in Wiltshire, wallpaper version
[Ancient] Greek Marble Mosaics 1: Olympia
Stone Henge in Wiltshire, wide-screen version
Arches of Cloister of S. Aubin’s Abbey, Angers
A Good Thanksgiving
Victorian vine-leaf page border
Gravestone
Romantic and Atmospheric Graveyard

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