An illustration from an 1890 issue of Punch magazine.  The caption reads: "Death and his brother Sleep."

"The Demon Alps": an illustration from an 1890 issue of Punch magazine.

John Leech sketched this for a tale about a clown who had to crack jokes in a circus while his wife was in her dying agonies after fatally missing her footing on a leap from a standing position on horseback; the rip in the hoop is meant to suggest the initial letter I of the story.  From Cornhill magazine, 1864.

An illustration from a 1916 issue of Puck magazine.

An illustration from a 1917 issue of Puck magazine.

An illustration from an 1880 issue of Punch magazine.

Here's a precursor to a stretch portrait at Disneyland's Haunted Mansion: an illustration from an 1863 issue of Punch magazine.  The caption reads: "Death on the Rope."

An illustration from a 1903 issue of Punch magazine.

An illustration from an 1878 issue of Punch magazine.  The caption reads: "There and (not) back!"

An illustration from an 1886 issue of Punch magazine.

"So it's 2 pm and you've got the dreaded 2 o'clock feeling." —The Grave Radio

This illustration of the dreaded 2 o'clock feeling is from Cartoons magazine, 1916.

An illustration from a 1903 issue of Saturday Evening Post.

Dedicated to the Master of Masks, Jeff McBride.

An illustration from a 1911 issue of Life magazine.

An illustration from a 1908 issue of Life magazine.

Ending a scene "with a jolt—the ubiquitous cat jump (a feline leaps out of the darkness with a screech). This is the oldest trick in the book." —John Kenneth Muir, Horror Films of The 1980s (2007)

The illustration is from Appleton's magazine, 1907.  The caption reads: "With a savage whining scream The Death hurtled through the air." 

An illustration from an 1895 issue of The Canadian magazine.  The caption reads: "And thus he passed into the night again for evermore."

We stumbled upon this bookplate in an old* magazine volume from the Harvard College Library.  Any writer who has been under a deadline might relate to the symbolism.
*1855

"The Death of Death":  an illustration by Cyril Goldie in an 1899 issue of Quartier Latin magazine.

An illustration from an 1883 issue of Harper's magazine.  The caption reads: "The night's Plutonian shore."

An illustration from an 1871 issue of Our Boys and Girls magazine.