"Just kept on walking.  Dying man tramped 300 miles with no destination in view."  From the Duluth Herald, 1911.

From The Book of Shadows by Don Paterson, 2005.

From Weird Tales, 1943.

From Purdue's 1913 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

"Are you alive?"  Of course, the great Charles Fort has already answered this, and so did the illustrious Philip K. Dick in his own way.  Headline from Together, 1958.

From Pulemet, 1906.

Before The Walking Dead there was "The Running Corpse."  From Plum Blossoms and Blue Incense by James Bennett and Soong Kwen-Ling, 1926.

"Something was just disappearing into the passage."  From Pearson's, 1898.

If you've ever wondered about people you encounter, here's the explanation: "In every thousand people who are living on this earth, not more than one is alive."  From The Art of Being Alive by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, 1914.

"You don't know how delightful it is to be dead.  I never enjoyed myself so much."  From London Magazine, 1902.

"'Great God!' he said; 'the dead come to life, then."  From Pearson's, 1898.

It's a brittle thing, to be sure.  Life Beyond the Grave: Described by a Spirit Through a Writing Medium, 1877.