From Judy, Or The London Serio-Comic Journal, 1878.

Haunted Houses: Tales of the Supernatural, with Some Account of Hereditary Curses and Family Legends, written and illustrated by Charles George Harper, 1907.

From English Grammar by the California State Board of Education, 1888.

AskThePessimist quips: "What Chomsky was afraid to reveal: The structural grammar of the story of your life."

Here's "Gotobed's Ghost," from Judy, Or The London Serio-Comic Journal, 1878.

From Fun magazine, 1893.

"I saw two barred eyes looking at me."  From Pearson's, 1898.

"A strangling bellow of pain and fear followed."  From Pearson's, 1898.

That feeling that everything in the room is looking at you.  From Die Muskete, 1931.

"A lean shape with a shrunken head leapt out."  From Pearson's, 1898.

"T'was contact with the dead."  From The Harvard Lampoon, 1921.

From Baron Manfred, the Magician of the Forest, or the Mysterious Bell of the Southern Tower by Orlando Hodgson, 1832.

"Looking down at them from over the banisters was a face—a blotched, yellowish face."  From "Real Ghost Stories" in Pearson's, 1898.

From Judy, Or The London Serio-Comic Journal, 1883.

"Who are you?"  A ghost from A Book of Ghosts by S. Baring-Gould, 1904.

"Seeing things," from Pearson's, 1908.

"All at once there broke from him a strangled cry and he stood to stare at the small, grey shape."  From Wayside Tales, 1922.

"The old fellow in the picture," from The Mountain-Sprite's Kingdom by E. H. Knatchbull-Hugessen, 1881.