From Spring-Heel'd Jack, the Terror of London, 1867.

From The 5 Alls by Thomas Hood, 1868.

Living as we do in the lightning capital of the United States, we can confirm that this is indeed Adamastor, "a hideous phantom whose face is scarred by lightning and whose eyes shoot fire."  From St. Nicholas magazine, 1908.

"He moved his walking-stick repeatedly through the phantom," from Dicks' English Library of Standard Works, 1884.

The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Eerie Tales by Rudyard Kipling, 1890.

An illustration from an 1888 issue of Frank Leslie's Pleasant Hours magazine.

"The enchanted steed," from The New Hyperion by Edward Strahan, 1875.

"My eye was caught by the appearance of an extraordinary figure." From Ghostly Tales by Wilhelmina Fitzclarence, 1896.