An illustration from an 1859 issue of Punch magazine.

An illustration from a 1906 issue of Puck magazine.

It's raining cats, if not dogs.  The caption reads: "I saw many myriads of spectral kitten forms and unsubstantial egg-shapes."  From an 1895 issue of Punch.

An illustration from a 1902 issue of Punch magazine.

An illustration from a 1905 issue of Punch magazine.

An illustration from a 1915 issue of Cosmopolitan magazine.

An illustration from Told After Supper by Jerome K. Jerome (1891).

An illustration from a 1905 issue of The Idler magazine.  The caption reads: "'Why hasn't Haunting told upon you?' I asked."

"Step by step, nearer, nearer, until he touched airy hands that clung, that drew him to the heart of mystery."  From Amélie Rives's The Ghost Garden, 1918.

An illustration from a 1904 issue of Cosmopolitan magazine.

An illustration from an 1893 issue of The Idler magazine.  The caption reads: "A hot sickness touched him with its finger."

An illustration from a 1904 issue of Metropolitan magazine.  The caption reads: "I walked through the wall before his amazed eyes, and walked back again."

An illustration from a 1908 issue of Wide World magazine.  The caption reads: "It was going, and—I fired, and then fired again."

An illustration from a 1906 issue of The Idler magazine.

An illustration from a 1906 issue of Wide World magazine.  The caption reads: "She remained standing mute as a statue, pointing with her finger towards me."

An illustration from a 1904 issue of Metropolitan magazine.  The caption reads: "'Through him!  Pass through him!  Come out!  Come to me!' I cried."

An illustration from a 1904 issue of Harper's magazine.  The caption reads: "Her outstretched arms seemed to close upon something."

An illustration from a 1903 issue of The Windsor magazine.  The caption reads: "I know I was not dreaming."

An illustration from a 1903 issue of The Windsor magazine.