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Portrait from The Poetical Works of John Milton.

“It was only the charcoal spirit up to its old capers again!” —Anthony R. Walker

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Portrait from Memoir of John D. Lockwood.

“Ghost images are troublesome if they are sharp.” —The Focal Encyclopedia of Photography

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Portrait from Memoir and Letters of Charles Sumner.

“The ghost in the machine fights the last battle for the human soul.” —Richard Watson, Cogito, Ergo Sum

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Portrait from Memoir of Mrs. Rebekah Evans.

“The face of a spirit cannot, like a mortal’s be a mask to hide the feelings of the heart.” —William Bailey Potter, Spiritualism As It Is

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A cemetery as it appears on the other side,

from Memoir of Captain M. M. Hammond.

via The Ghost in the [Scanning] Machine.

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Portrait from Memoir of Robert Noxon Toppan.

“The ‘ghost image’ corresponds directly to the book we are reading.” —Ralph William Sarkonak, Angelic Echoes

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Portrait from Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin.

“Anything about ‘Benjamin Franklin’s Ghost’ is sure to pull.” —Francis William Rolt-Wheeler, The News-Hunters

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Portrait from Thomas Fuller.

“A blue ghost on a black background is highly visible, but it is less so if the background is blue.” —Jonathan M. Blackledge, Image Processing II

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Portrait from The Collected Works of George Moore.

“I saw two eyes, psychic and ghostly, peering at me from over a ghostly mustache.” —The Omega

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Portrait from Memoir of Mrs. Sarah Emily York.

“Conjured too, it is a resurrected being ‘beyond’ life, and, like any ghost, delivered over to a third, neither presence nor absence.” —David Appelbaum, Jacques Derrida’s Ghost: A Conjuration

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Portrait from Memoir of Rev. James M. Challiss.

“Surely a ghost.” —Regan Forest, Secrets of Tyrone

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Portrait from A Memoir of Charles Mayne Young.

“He made a ghost-shaped sooty mark.” —The Walker Book of Ghost Stories

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Portrait from The Best of Balzac.

“‘It’s a blue smudge,’ Phil said. ‘Maybe it’s a flaw in the photo.’” —Elaine Viets, Killer Cuts

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Portrait from Memoir of the Life of Elizabeth Fry.

“A silhouette appeared and magnified on the display.” —Eric S. Nylund, Halo

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Portrait from Memoir of Albert Newsam.

“A ghostly blur of light, the psychic essence, the inner being.” —Kathryn Harrison, Thicker Than Water

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Portrait from Life of Johnson.

“There is no ghost, among all the ghosts haunting London, that we oftener meet at night . . . than old Samuel Johnson’s.” —“Haunted London,” All the Year Round

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Portrait from Autobiography of Andrew Somerville.

“That’s the ghost’s chair, and the time has come!” —Ivy Hooper, Theosophical Review

"The adorable living past.  One must wallow, just wallow in it.  How can anybody be a person of quality if they wash away their ghosts with common sense?" —Leonora Carrington, "Waiting," The Seventh Horse (emphasis ours)

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Portrait from A Memoir of the Life of William Livingston.

"His shadow on the wall was a silhouette from another era.” —Martin Harry Greenberg, Civil War Ghosts

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Portrait from John Greenleaf Whittier.

“The ghost on paper, the poem itself.” —Dylan Thomas