Here's a better scan of this precursor to Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar (1963), fromFrom Poets' Wit and Humor by Wh. H. Wills and illustrated by Charles Bennett and George H. Thomas, 1860. Poets' Wit and Humor by W. H. Wills and illustrated by Charles Bennett and George H. Thomas, 1860.

"Death caused by vaccination."  From How to Live 100 Years by Guy Lockwood, 1912.

May you hereby be free of ghasts or anything otherwise ghastly.  From Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna Handbook.

From The Cosmic Survey, 1922.

From Beyond Fantasy Fiction, 1954.

From Wizardry Monsters Manual.

Note the signature at the top of this spirit photograph from 1920 -- the image is upside down and backwards.  "A face appears over the man's image on the left of the photograph, covered in a cloak. Although indistinct, the man apparently identified the 'spirit' as an ex-work colleague who had died thirty two years earlier."  Courtesy of the National Media Museum Collection, via The Odd Side of Me.

The ghost of a demolished building forever haunts Earlham's 1925 yearbook.

From Together, 1968.

"By pastor's prayers earthbound spirit, aided to atone, moves on."  From the Duluth Herald, 1920.  See Strange Prayers for Strange Times.

From Scribner's, 1878.

From Improvement Era, 1952.

From Nothing But Ghosts by Beth Kephart.

From Wizardry VI: Bane of the Cosmic Forge handbook.

From Wizardry Monsters Manual.

From Loyola's 1968 yearbook.

Basketball ghosts, from Loyola's 1968 yearbook