There Is the Nocturnal Visitor Whom You Have so Long Taken for the Ghost of Your Mother (1854)

 “The Ghost of Larneville,”  Engraving from the designs of Felix Octavius Carr Darley, Ghost Stories: Collected with a Particular View to Counteract the Vulgar Belief in Ghosts and Apparitions, (Philadelphia: Henry Carey Baird, 1854), frontispiece.

At Last the Worm Uncoiled Itself, Snorted Its Last Foam of Blood and Fire, and Rolled Dying into the River, and Was Never Seen More (1894)

Joseph Jacobs, ed., “The Lambton Worm,” More English Fairy Tales, Illustrated by John D. Batten (London: David Nutt, 1894), 202.

At the Point Where the Scales Were Parted, the Sword Struck into the Neck, and the Pent-up Flames Burst through the Wound at the Side, so That Siegfried Was Now Safe from Them. The Little Dwarf Crept Quickly out of the Wound (1848)

Illustrated by Wilhelm Kaulbach,  The Heroic Life and Exploits of Siegfried the Dragon Slayer: An Old German Story (London: Joseph Cundall and David Bogue, 1848), 108.

The Combatants Cut and Slashed with Savage Fury (1895)

Howard Pyle, The Story of Jack Ballister's Fortunes;  being the narrative of the adventures of a young gentleman of good family, who was kidnapped in the year 1719 and carried to the plantations of the continent of Virginia; where he fell in with that famous pirate Captain Edward Teach, or Blackbeard; of his escape from the pirates and the rescue of a young lady from out their hands (New York: The Century Company, 1895), 383.