An illustration from a 1900 issue of The Windsor magazine.

"Lady North Wind" by Albert Hughes (1857).

An illustration from a 1914 issue of Harper's magazine.  The caption reads: "There is something that lives on here, in this room."

A ghostly illustration from an 1883 issue of Harper's magazine.  The caption reads: "The apparition."

An illustration from a 1906 issue of Harper's magazine.

An illustration from a 1911 issue of Scribner's magazine.  The caption reads: "It was perhaps a little past the third hour after midnight....He stretched both hands across the table...and whispered a name."

An illustration from an 1870 issue of Harper's magazine.  The caption reads: "The doppelganger."

An illustration from an 1895 issue of Scribner's magazine.  The caption reads: "Was it a beam of light that I saw in the pathway, touching the pallid bloom of the tall cosmos-flower?"

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

"Who are you?":  an illustration from a 1913 issue of Munsey's magazine.

J writes: "Well, the answer that jumps to mind is 'Bob Hope.' Anachronistic, yes (I believe Leslie Hope would still have been, literally, in short pants in that decade, except when donning baggy pants for his award-winning Charlie Chaplin imitation); but if a ghost can't be exempt from strict chronological considerations, who can? I also, of course, love the fact that it's the *apparition* asking the *mortal* who the hell he is."

An illustration from a 1914 issue of Everybody's magazine.  The caption reads: "It had draped arms extended, with some cloth or band that looped and tightened at each stride."

A ghostly illustration from an 1896 issue of Pall Mall magazine.  The caption reads: "I saw what made my heart stand still."

"The thing grew in sound":  an illustration from a 1919 issue of Munsey's magazine.

An illustration from an 1879 issue of Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly magazine.

"The Spirit of the Dusk":  an illustration from a 1901 issue of Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly magazine.

An illustration from a 1903 issue of Life magazine.

A ghostly illustration from an 1896 issue of Pall Mall magazine.  The caption reads: "An irresistible force compelled me to follow."

An illustration from an 1890 issue of Illustrated American magazine.

An illustration from a 1920 issue of Munsey's magazine.

An illustration from a 1910 issue of Hampton's magazine.  The caption reads: "Under the influence of electricity, the columns were condensed miraculously into an intense image of Laurent."