From Cranford by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, 1898.

From Peter Ibbetson by George Du Maurier, 1892.

From Ghosts, Being the Experiences of Flaxman Low by Kate O'Brien Prichard and illustrated by B. E. Minns, 1899.

"'What art thou?' stammered the page," from The Captain of the Wight by Frank Cowper, 1889.

From The Davenport Brothers, 1869.  This should be of interest: Seance Parlor Feng Shui.

Here's one way candles seemingly go out on their own.  From Mistura Curiosa by James Archibald Sidey, 1886.

We all know our animal companions can see things we don't.  From St. Nicholas magazine, 1898.

"I could see the gigantic head of the ghostbeast," from The Induna's Wife by Bertram Mitford, 1898.

From Yarns of an Old Mariner by Mary Cowden Clarke and illustrated by George Cruikshank, 1800.

From St. Nicholas magazine, 1909.

"Hans howled again, finishing off with a fiendish laugh," from The Kloof Bride by Ernest Glanville, 1898.

"A lean shape with a shrunken head leapt out into the passage after him."  From Ghosts, Being the Experiences of Flaxman Low by Kate O'Brien Prichard and illustrated by B. E. Minns, 1899.

From The Ingoldsby Legends by Thomas Ingoldsby, 1881.

From Ghosts, Being the Experiences of Flaxman Low by Kate O'Brien Prichard and illustrated by B. E. Minns, 1899.

An illustration from Every Day Characters by Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1896).  Illustration by Cecil Charles Windsor Aldin.

From Ghosts: Being the Bxperiences of Flaxman Low by Kate O'Brien Prichard and illustrated by B. E. Minns, 1899. The caption reads, "Eyes were looking down into his own, dark eyes full of hatred and despair."

"The dead drummer" from Dicks' English Library of Standard Works, 1884.

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