From The Life of George Barnwell by Edward Litt Leman Blanchard, 1841.

Here are some ghostly presences from Peter Ibbetson by George Du Maurier, 1892.

We're honored that acclaimed poet Gary Barwin has offered a foreword to our new guide to The Care and Feeding of a Spirit Board.

The phrase "ghosts of dead toys" delivers just one Google result from 1908.  Our illustration appears fours years earlier, in St. Nicholas magazine, 1904.

From The Life of the Moselle by Octavius Rooke, 1858.

From The Year's At the Spring: An Anthology of Recent Poetry, 1920.

"He clambered forward in the boat, and stared at the passing multitude."  From The Marriage of Esther by Guy Newell Boothby, 1895.

"Mesmeric Ghosts": an illustration from The Children's Fairy History of England by Forbes Edward Winslow (1889).

From Favourite English Poems and Poets, 1870.

From Shadows and Other Poems by E. Samuels and illustrated by W. Fitzgerald, 1898.

An illustration by Lawrence Chaves (1932) for de Quincey's Opium Eater.

An illustration from The Letters of Charles Dickens (1893).

From Lays of Ind by Aliph Cheem, 1883.

Divinities from Japan and Her People by Andrew Steinmetz, 1859.

From The Astrologer of the Nineteenth Century by Raphael, 1825.

An illustration from A Woman's Courage by Frederick Wicks (1892).

From Favourite English Poems and Poets, 1870.

"Imaginary Companions": an illustration from Echoes from the Rocky Mountains by John Clampitt (1889).

An illustration from The Lay of the Last Minstrel by Sir Walter Scott (1887).

An illustration from The Annals of Psychical Science, vol. 7 (1908).  The caption reads: "Giving heed to seducing spirits."