Here's a book on degeneration that's deteriorating.  Degeneration by Max Simon Nordau, 1895.

The King in Yellow, by Robert W. Chambers.

Here's a precursor to I Married a Dead Man by Cornell Woolrich a.k.a William Irish.  It's The Bride of a Ghost by Joseph Jones, 1883.

"Some words passed between us."  From 1906.

Isn't it disconcerting when your book reads you back?  From The Actress of Padua by Richard Penn Smith, 1836.

A Century of Charades by William Bellamy.

The Devil. Or, the New-Jersey Dance, 1797.

From A Bunch of Keys: Where They Were Found and What They Might Have Unlocked, 1865.

Robert Blatchford, A Book About Books, 1903.

Dreamland in History by H. D. M. Spence, Dean of Gloucester, 1891.

From The Fortunate Days by Ethel Gate and illustrated by Vianna Knowlton, 1922.

Arthur Edward Waite, Songs and Poems of Fairyland, 1888.

"There was the door — in her hand the key."  From "The Door in the Book by Charles Barnard and illustrated by Mary A. Lathbury, 1903.

From The Fairy Foxes, a Chinese Legend, told in English by Mrs. Archibald Little, 1895.

Three angels arise from the smoke of braziers.  Dreams and Ghosts by Andrew Lang.