Sinners May Hope (1856)

“The Dead,” Home Magazine 7 (January 1856): 49.

The Position of the Young Girl’s Body Showed She Had Been Buried Alive (1875)

Captain Mayne Reid, “The Pierced Heart,” Drawn by Adelaide Claxton, London Society: An Illustrated Magazine of Light and Amusing Literature for the Hours of Relaxation 27 (Holiday Number, 1875): 16.

“Now the Enemy Is Fairly Repulsed. Let Us Move out of Our Intrenchments, and Give the Dead Sepulture,” He Said Quite Manfully (1875)

“Care Kills the Cat,” Rape of the Gamp, Chapter XIX, Harper’s New Monthly Mazazine (March 1875): 506.

Hackney Churchyard Is an Aristocratic Feline Rendez-Vous (1904)

Sidney Kindall, “On the Trail of a Serpent,” Illustrated by O. Herford,  Pearson’s Magazine 17 (June 1904): 640.

Eyub Is a Place of Tombs; On the Hillside, Thousands of the Faithful Rest under Cypresses in Graves Marked by Dusty Headstones Leaning Awry (1913)

Robert Hichens, “Skirting the Balkan Peninsula from Triest to Constantinople, Sixth Paper: Stamboul, the City of Mosques,” With Pictures by Jules Guérin, The Century 86 (August 1913): 521.

We Prized off the Lid in a Twinkling and a Transient Glimpse of Moonlight Disclosed to Us the Shrouded Inmate All White and Damp (1864)

Samuel Warren, Passages from the Diary of a Late Physician, Engravings by Whymper (Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1864), 211.

“Wisha! Wisha!,” She Exclaimed, Rubbing Her Finger across Her Sallow Brow, and Then Plucking Tufts of Maiden Hair out of the Old Walls, “It Bothers One to Think How Often That Tomb Has Been Opened.” (1844)

Mrs. S.C. Hall, “Jack the Shrimp,” Sketches of Irish Character: Illustrated Edition (London: M.A. Nattali, 1844), 134.

Oh, Mother, Do Come Back to Poor Betty (1869)

Sophia Tandy, Bertie’s Birthday Present, or Patience Rewarded (London: Religious Tract Society, 1869), 164.

I Reached the Cemetery without Having Met a Living Thing—Man, Beast, or Bird (1874)

“My Wife,” Frank Leslie’s Pleasant Hours 16 (February 1874): 321.

A Woman’s Generous Warmth Arose through Maiden Sensibility and Taught Her How to Comfort Best and Whence to Replume the Wings of Peace (1873)

Richard Doddridge Blackmore, Cradock Nowell: A Tale of the New Forest (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low, and Searle. 1873).   

A Savage Strumming Accompanied His Ballad, Announcing a Ukulele (1919)

Thomas Beer, “The House of Atreus,” Illustrations by D.C. Hutchison, The Century Magazine 98 (July 1919): 317.

From Ever to Always the Generations of Men Do Bondsman’s Service in the Single Field (1901)

Francis Marion Crawford, The Witch of Prague: A Fantastic Tale (London: Macmillan and Company, Limited, 1901): 97.

In This Manner, the Epitaph on My Mother’s Tomb Being My Primer and My Spelling-Book, I Learned to Read (1825)

Mrs. Leicester’s School; Or the History of Several Young Ladies Related by Themselves 9^th ed., (London: M.J. Godwin and Company,) 1825.

And like That Sounding Echo-Land This Graveyard Speaks to Me (1885)

J.R.S., “The Graveyard,” The Penny Post: An Illustrated Magazine for All Readers 35 ( September 1885): 275.

If They Were Quick in Coming from the Graveyard They Were Slow in Reaching It (1898)

Cecil Clare, “The Sheep Stealers: A Children’s Story,” The English Illustrated Magazine 20 (December 1898): 343.

She Entreated Some of the Gentlemen to Go and Prevent Him Digging the Grave but None of Them Had Courage Enough (1884)

Narcissa Smith Springer, The Illustrated Cloudy Sky or The Unfortunate Children, A True Tale, With Thirteen Illustrations. (Cleavland: Narcissa Smith Springer, 1884), 280.

Let Us Go Brother, to the Church-Yard, and Lie down on the Daisies among the Little Green Mounds (1842)

H.F. Wink, ed., The Children’s Magazine of General Knowledge and Instruction: A Reward Book for Sabbath Schools, Day Schools, and Families V (1842): 33

Capperin Roun on a Toomstone (1883)

Joel Chandler Harris. Uncle Remus, or Mr. Fox, Mr. Rabbit, and Mr. Terrapin. Illustrated by A.T. Elwes  (London: George Routledge and Sons, 1883).