"Before me stood the figure of a monk," from The Decameron of a Hypnotist by Ernest Richard Suffling, 1898.

From Leslie's Fate; and Hilda, or the Ghost of Erminstein by Andrew Charles Parker Haggard, 1892.

From Les Merveilles du Mont. St. Michel by Paul Henri Coretin Féval, 1880.

From The Man in the Moon, Volume IV.

"Le genie de l'isle Percé," from Canada From the Lakes to the Gulf by Captain Mac, 1881.

From Festival of Song by Frederick Saunders, 1866.

From Ballads of the Bench and Bar by James Balfour Paul, 1882.

An illustration from The Shadow on the Blind by Louisa Baldwin (1895).

An illustration from a 1900 issue of The Lady's Realm magazine.  The caption reads: "Something appeared at the window."

An illustration from a 1900 issue of The Lady's Realm magazine.

From Southerly Busters by Ironbark, 1878.

"'If—if you are alive,' he whispered, 'speak to me: don't look at me so—don't!'"  From The Lights of Sydney; or, No Past is Dead by Lilian Turner, 1896.

An illustration from an 1885 issue of Frank Leslie's Pleasant Hours magazine.  The caption reads: "Risen from the dead.—'And while, in horror unutterable, I stared, to those decaying jaws was borne a voice: 'William, I will wait for you—they wait.'"

An illustration from The Novels of Captain Marryat (1896).

An illustration from The Calton Ballads by Catter Thun (1898).

An illustration from In Borderland by Matthew Robert Smith Craig and illustrated by John Wallace (1899).

An illustration from At the Rising of the Moon by Frank James Mathew (1893).  The caption reads: "Dark Andy and the headless man."