"Therese flies to the door," from The Evil Eye and Other Stories by Katharine Sarah Macquoid, 1876.

"One fierce wrench and he was out of the grasp of the skeleton," from The Wonder of Kingswood Chace by Pierce Egan the Younger, 1890.

From The Destined Maid by George Chetwynd Griffith Jones, 1898.

"By the sheen of the foam I beheld two skelingtons sitting in their coffins." From The Story Hunter or Tales of the Weird and Wild by Ernest Richard Suffling, 1896.

"Four and twenty skeletons were in sitting posture round the table." From The Sphinx-like Head by J. Harry Sugden, 1896.

An illustration from The Haunted Major by Robert Marshall (1902).  The caption reads: "I saw the cardinal blow with might and main."

An illustration from an 1897 issue of Cosmopolitan magazine.  The caption reads: "They rise upon me tattered and dog-bitten."

An illustration from a 1904 issue of The Windsor magazine.  The caption reads: "Always that white baby hand called upwards through the earth."

An illustration from a 1907 issue of Harper's magazine.  The caption reads: "The two of them looked at each other with much interest."

An illustration from an 1880 issue of Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly magazine.  The caption reads: "Suddenly the damask curtains at the window near the bedside parted, and an icy hand emerged, with the pallid blue glare of the moon shining brightly upon it—the ghastly hand of a corpse."

An illustration from an 1888 issue of Cosmopolitan magazine.  The caption reads: "The moving skull."