From Purdue University's Debris yearbook, 1902.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

"The spectre of Tappington," from Dicks' English Library of Standard Works, 1884.  Compare to this other depiction of the same scene.

This sounds like another precursor to the "Fusilli Jerry" episode of Seinfeld.  (We noted the "Macaroni Man" precursor here.)  It's The Fantoccini Man by Warren Townshend, 1890.

From The Blue Poetry Book by Andrew Lang and illustrated by Lancelot Speed, 1891.

Is the grim reaper fighting off or welcoming the demon?  From The Dance of Death, 1820.

The last of the Graces, from Death's Doings, illustrated by Richard Dagley, 1827.

"Behold the object of your guilty love!"  From Dicks' English Library of Standard Works, 1884.

From España Negra, written and illustrated by Émile Verhaeren, 1899.

Here's a precursor to the Lovejoy series, from The Wonder of Kingswood Chace by Pierce Egan the Younger, 1890.  The caption reads, "The antique chest yields up its secret."

Demons grasp for the soul of the deceased, from The Lamentable Vision of the Devoted Hermit, 1813.

Here's "The Spectre of Tappington," in The World of Romance, 1892.  The caption reads, "He whipped his legs into them in a twinkling."

From the Halcyon yearbook of Swarthmore College, 1895.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

"On reaching the top he found himself in the presence of a skeleton," from Ned Kelly, the Ironclad Australian Bushranger by Edward Kelly, 1887.

An Indian Wizard by Arthur Lillie, 1887.

Eckhart Tolle suggested that "death is a stripping away of all that is not you."  And just who puts on what we strip off?  We find the answer in The Ingoldsby Legends, 1893.

From the Mirror yearbook of Bates College, 1921.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

Here's a macabre invitation to a burial from An Historical Account of the Worshipful Company of Carpenters of the City of London by Edward Basil Jupp, 1848.

"The times have been that when the brains were out, the man would die, and there an end." —Macbeth.

"Death and the compadre," from The Wild Man at Home by James Greenwood, 1879.