"They drew his soul with them," from "The Harp of Invermorn" by William Black, in Once a Week, 1864.

From Once a Week, 1864.

From 1911.

"All sorts of creatures walk about / And ghosts sure live, beyond a doubt / On Hallowe'en."

Here's a rare insight into how Hallowe'en sheet ghosts are freshly gathered from clothes lines by witches.  Date uncertain.

"Taxed to death," from Judy, Or The London Serio-Comic Journal, 1869.

Here's a hauntingly furnished room from Judy, Or The London Serio-Comic Journal, 1872.

From c. 1920.

Here's the age-old Chinese science of what makes a ghost, from the works of Wen-Chang Ti-Kyüin, 1876, as quoted in The Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal.

"Be good."  Date uncertain.

You've heard that one should never trust a smiling cat.  This sage wisdom applies to the afterlife, as well.  (Date uncertain.)

Here's a precuror to Jon Lovitz's pathological liar character Tommy Flanagan, from The London Magazine, 1902.  The text reads, "I'm a nonentity, a spectre—that's it, a spectre—and a spectre can't incur financial obligations, you know."

"Kindly promote ghostly interests during this season."  Date uncertain.

"Things are seldom what they seem."  From 1910.

"Her hat was blown off, and next instant a detonation rang through her head as though a gun had been fired into her ear."  From A Book of Ghosts by S. Baring-Gould, 1904.

"The Ghost walks.  He ought to have 'tucked in his twopenny,' though."  From Judy, Or The London Serio-Comic Journal, 1873.

From Once a Week, 1862.