An illustration from an 1895 issue of Pall Mall magazine.  The caption reads: "She cautiously ventured one foot into the black-looking water."

When vintage fashion styles come back, they attract ghosts.  From The Judge, 1916.

From The Judge, 1913.

"There appeared to her three very beautiful spirits, clothed in white."  From The Bird of Truth and Other Fairy Tales by Fernan Caballero, 1881.

The mouse is saved when the cat gets spooked.  From Fliegende Blätter, 1937.

"I can't, Tom, I can't!  My fingers are not strong enough, and my nails are broken—don't be angry with me, Tom!"  From Tom Ossington's Ghost by Richard Marsh, 1898.

"If he went out for a walk they trotted forth with him, some before, some following," from from A Book of Ghosts by S. Baring-Gould, 1904.

"The usual representation of an old gentleman in a ghost-infested house — and what really would have happened."  From Life, 1920.

"The happy hunting grounds."  From Pick Me Up, 1895.

Talking with spirit friends.  From Popular Mechanics, 1928.

Fair and Fatal Warnings, or, Visits from the World of Spirits; Being Concise Relations of the Most Curious and Remarkable Apparitions, Ghosts, Spectres, and Visions, 1810.

From an 1862 issue of Fun magazine.