"The rats were wronged, the wind was slandered—both were innocent; in a word, the house was haunted!"  From "The Haunted Chamber" in Hogg's Weekly Instructor, 1846.

"Thus the horror and apprehension of a supernatural visitation terminated in a joyous wedding, which was consummated in the same chamber where the innocent Rosina had twice filled her lover with inexpressible alarm."  From "The Haunted Inn" in Ghost Stories, 1846.

"The portraits on the wall seemed to give her a welcome."  From The Colonel's Money by Lucy Cecil Lillie, 1888.

This is how, if you aren't careful about the artwork near your bed, you can end up with a family.  From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1901.

The paintings have eyes.  From Mocca, 1933.

"I can't, Tom, I can't!  My fingers are not strong enough, and my nails are broken—don't be angry with me, Tom!"  From Tom Ossington's Ghost by Richard Marsh, 1898.

"The usual representation of an old gentleman in a ghost-infested house — and what really would have happened."  From Life, 1920.

Here's a haunted painting from Krokodil, 1945.

A ghost-buster from Ghosts I Have Met and Some Others by John Kendrick Bangs, 1898.

A ghost rolling coins across a table, from A Book of Ghosts by S. Baring-Gould, 1904.

Why most writers have lived in haunted houses and dreamed the wrong dreams.  From What Do Women Want? by Erica Jong, 2007.