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

From Home Mission Handicraft, 1908.

From Under the Crown, American History, 1909.

Did you know that a jack-'o-lantern named "The Chew-Chew Man" watches how you devour shredded wheat?  "He'll get you if you don't watch out," from Rod and Gun, 1898.

A drawing by Dorothy J. Hamilton from St. Nicholas maagzine, 1903.

From the Wisconsin Medical Recorder, 1909.

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

"October," from The Carolyn Wells Year Book of Old Favorites and New Fancies for 1909.

From St. Nicholas magazine, 1904.

"The witches' frolic," from The Ingoldsby Legends by Thomas Ingoldsby, 1881.

The bats have taken wing in Prodigiorvm ac Ostentorvm Chronicon, 1557.

Is this, as Gordon Meyer has observed, a gingerbread man sheet ghost?  The phrase "gingerbread man sheet ghost" is a googlewhack, but we did encounter this joke:

Q: What do the ghosts of dead gingerbread men wear? 

A: Cookie sheets!

Our illustration appears in Love Lyrics and Valentine Verses by E. M. Davies, 1875.

From The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter by Ambrose Bierce, 1892.

From the Halcyon yearbook of Swarthmore College, 1895.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

This is the best rabbit-poking-a-jack-o'-lantern-with-a-stick we've seen all year!  From St. Nicholas magazine, 1904.  [For Gordon Meyer.]

Here's a certain Mr. X from the Atlanta City Directory, 1913, p. 61.

From The Phynodderree, and Other Legends of the Isle of Man by Edward Watson Callow, 1882.

These apparitions appear in St. Nicholas magazine.

From The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum, 1904.