An illustration from an 1896 issue of Scribner's magazine.  The caption reads: "They meet under death's shadow."

An illustration from an 1872 issue of Frank Leslie's Pleasant Hours magazine.

An illustration from a 1912 issue of Cosmopolitan magazine.  The caption reads: "I saw the figure gliding toward me, its death-mask grinning as if with pleasure to find at least the room inhabited by a human—I marked the eyeholes of doom, seeming to glow red in the fire-lit room, and the bony hand holding on high what I guessed, I knew, to be a cup of poison meant for me!"

An illustration from an 1893 issue of Cosmopolitan magazine.  The caption reads: "Death the final sovereign of the world."

An illustration from a 1905 issue of Pall Mall magazine.  The caption simply reads: "Science."