From La Bulgarie Danubienne et le Balkan by Felix Philipp Jaburz, 1882.

From The Works of Charles Dickens, Household Edition.

Here's a precursor to the macabre orgy scene in The Loved One (1965) from The Cat of Bubastes by George Alfred Henty, 1896.

"The Death's-Head Moth": an illustration from an 1888 issue of Frank Leslie's Pleasant Hours magazine.

An illustration from an 1887 issue of Frank Leslie's Pleasant Hours magazine.  The caption reads: "The sexton's ghost.—'He saw something move.  It was a tall figure, and it tottered weakly toward the gate on which he leaned."

This "Black Death Record" is a precursor to the music label Black Death Records, from The Grange of St. Giles, the Bass by Jane Stewart Smith, 1898.

Populated by the grandmothers of baseball stars: "American's greatest graveyard."  From Puck, 1907.

An illustration from a 1900 issue of The Windsor magazine.

An illustration from a 1916 issue of Harper's magazine.  The caption reads: "Miss Holmes made no answer, for she, too, was seeing the vision."

An illustration from a 1904 issue of Harper's magazine.

An illustration from a 1908 issue of Harper's magazine.  The caption reads: "He went forth into the dawn sleepless."

"A Strange Valentine": an illustration from an 1883 issue of Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly magazine.  The caption reads: "Sprinkling the pulverized herbs over the fire, and with her eyes fixed on the bright moon, she pronounced, in an extremely tremulous voice, the invocation."

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