Here's a banshee from The World of Romance, 1892.

"As I never turned from the living, the dead shall never turn me from my path."  From Montebello the Magnificant, 1890.

Here's the spirit of burning the midnight oil, whose mantra is perhaps "Just one more page" or "Why not finish this chapter?"  From Csataképek a Magyar Szabadságharzból by Mór Jókai, 1899.

"A visitant from the grave," from The Poor Girl by Pierce Egan the Younger, 1890.  (We like how the first A in the caption resembles a ghostly, upside down V.  There are V's and A's in "visitant" and "grave."  As above, so below.)

From The Green Shadow, 1890.

Here's the spirit of "Running with Scissors" (maybe), from The Literary Digest, 1890.

"Nina rushed as quickly as she could from the presence of that which she truly believed to be nothing less than the spirit of her murdered friend," from Thrilling Life Stories for the Masses, 1892.

From The Night Side of Nature, or, Ghosts and Ghost Seers by Catherine Crowe, 1882.

"The invocation," from Seonee, or, Camp Life on the Satpura Range by Robert Armitage Sterndale, 1887.

"By the window, full in the cool moon-rays, sat [the ghost of] a young girl."  From Under One Cover, Eleven Stories, 1898.

A Charge from the Grave by Somerville Gibney, 1889.

"A ghostly visitant" from Jethou by Ernest Richard Suffling, 1892.

From Maud by Alfred Tennyson, 1878.

A Ghost's Philosophy by Jane Isabella Stuart, 1889.

It's said that interrupting is a sign of a bad listener, but remember that ghosts don't have ears.  This interrupting ghost materializes in  by J. Gobb Holmes, 1889.

"My own ghost," from Wanderings of a War Artist, written and illustrated by Irving Montagu, 1889.

The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Eerie Tales by Rudyard Kipling, 1890.

The Ghost of Greystone Grange by Arthur William A'Beckett and illustrated by A. B. Frost, 1878.

"It was a darkness shaping itself forth," from The Haunted and the Haunters by Edward Bulwer Lytton, 1859.

"One of the ancestral ghosts at Duncaid Castle," from Leslie's Fate; and Hilda, or the Ghost of Erminstein by Andrew Charles Parker Haggard, 1892.