An illustration from The Autobiography of a Man O' War's Bell by C. R. Low (1875).  The caption reads: "I stepped forward, eagerly seized a paper, when oh, horror! there appeared before my eyes, as I hastily opened the slip, the single word—Death!"

An illustration from a 1900 issue of Harmsworth's magazine.  The caption reads: "The statue lives!  On its mighty limbs the great muscles twitch and quiver."

An illustration from a 1919 issue of Wide World magazine.  The caption reads: "My glance drifted to the wall above it, and, horror of horrors I saw it distinctly bulge inwards!"

"No one is to be blamed for all this horror except everybody and everything."
—John Cowper Powys, Porius

An illustration from a 1901 issue of The Strand magazine.  The caption reads: "They carried him into darkness."

An illustration from an 1880 issue of Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly magazine.  The caption reads: "Suddenly the damask curtains at the window near the bedside parted, and an icy hand emerged, with the pallid blue glare of the moon shining brightly upon it—the ghastly hand of a corpse."

An illustration from an 1888 issue of Frank Leslie's Pleasant Hours magazine.  The caption reads: "The embalmed head.—'At the window sat a man.  It was the attitude of a man in deep thought: but he had no head."

An illustration from an 1896 issue of English Illustrated magazine.  The caption reads: "I stumbled to my knees; but something held me—something which bound me like a web in a thousand strong silky meshes."

An illustration from a 1906 issue of Cosmopolitan magazine.  The caption reads: "The eyes of terror."