"The Haunted House": an illustration from The Leisure Hour (1881).  The poem reads:

An illustration from an 1897 issue of The Quiver magazine.  The caption reads: "Tormented by the family pictures."

An illustration from a 1901 issue of The Lady's Realm magazine.  The caption reads: "I stepped back as she passed."

An illustration from an 1887 issue of Frank Leslie's Pleasant Hours magazine.  The caption reads: "The story of a haunted room. —'In less time than I can take to write it, an unearthly vaporous fire spring from the wrist.'"

An illustration from an 1876 issue of The Quiver magazine.  The caption reads: "A mansion of the past."  Jonathan Caws-Elwitt adds: "and of the future—when it gets used as a stock exterior in various BBC series."

An illustration from The Annals of Psychical Science, vol. 7 (1908).  The caption reads: "Giving heed to seducing spirits."

An illustration from Samantha at Saratoga by Marietta Holley (1887).  The caption reads: "With my mind's eye I see 'em, and I follered 'em down the narrow, steep stair-case."

"Why new houses are haunted": an illustration from an 1886 issue of London Society Illustrated magazine.

An illustration from a 1905 issue of The Idler magazine.  The caption reads: "'Why hasn't Haunting told upon you?' I asked."

An illustration from an 1893 issue of The Idler magazine.  The caption reads: "A hot sickness touched him with its finger."

An illustration from a 1919 issue of Wide World magazine.  The caption reads: "My glance drifted to the wall above it, and, horror of horrors I saw it distinctly bulge inwards!"

An illustration from a 1920 issue of Life magazine.  The caption reads: "The house haunters' union decides to strike for a four-hour night."

An illustration from a 1904 issue of Metropolitan magazine.  The caption reads: "'Through him!  Pass through him!  Come out!  Come to me!' I cried."

An illustration from a 1901 issue of Life magazine.  The caption reads: "Christmas Night.  Ancestral Greetings."

"The Haunted House":  an illustration from an 1879 issue of Peterson's magazine.

"The Genealogical Ghost":  an illustration from an 1886 issue of Life magazine.

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

An illustration from an 1869 issue of Harper's magazine.  The caption reads: "The wise man's home changed."

"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."