The day before the examination my father took me out for ice cream. I couldn’t remember the last time we’d done something together, just the two of us. He was always working, gone before the sun rose, sometimes not making it home at all, opting to sleep in the dorms at army headquarters. Like a ghost, he came and went, his presence only detectable from the half-empty bowl of fried rice on the kitchen counter, his smudged fingerprints on the doorknob from the morning newspaper.
from When We Fell Apart, a novel by Soon Wiley
Faun spirit in Spring (1908) Walter King StoneJames William Carling illustration for “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe, 1880‘Haunted’ from The Tatler, circa November, 1927Lt. Joe Petrosino NYPD, the Italian Sherlock Holmes ‘The Beautiful Nurse’ Illustrator unknown, 1910Morris Kantor (1896 – 1974) Haunted House, 1930Faust in his Study or Faust’s Dream, 1852, by Carl Gustav CarusVirgil Finlay (194-1971) was an American pulp fantasy science fiction and horror illustrator.Adelaide Claxton (British painter) 1835 – ca. 1905The Ghost Story by Alfred Bestall 1930Lt. Joe Petrosino NYPD, the Italian Sherlock Holmes ‘The Beautiful Nurse’ Illustrator unknown, 1910Charles Altamont Doyle (1832-1893) His St Giles bells personified memories recalled by the bells as they ring a merry midnightPoster advertising The Ghost BreakersA ghost by Hannes BokKazuno KoharaThe House Ghost by Ludvig Holberg, illustrated by Hans Tegner 1896Carl Larsson, Guardian Angel ghostGhosts! George Cruikshank (1792–1878); from George Cruikshank’s Omnibus, 1842Illustrator-Rea Irvin (1881-1972)The Illustrated Police News, London, England, December 28, 1872 The Appearance of Another GhostEdward Gorey 1974. See: Edward Gorey, Misunderstood GeniusDorrie and the Screebit Ghost 1979 from the series by Patricia CoombsLeonora Carrington, British-Mexican painterGhost, Thomas Nast, 1867HALLOWEEN POSTCARD, GIBSON PUBLISHING, ca 1915 ghostElizabeth, the Cow Ghost, 1936, William du BoisPictorial Review magazine, October 29, 1950 before release of Alice In Wonderland 1951Ghost mother and child (In Abol Tabol)… Originally published in the year 1909 Painted by Sukumar RayFrank C. Papé (4 July 1878 – 5 May 1972)Alberto Martini (1876 – 1954) for an Edgar Allan Poe poem ghost girl art decoThe Case of Mr HelmerThe Haunted Auto from Puck MagazineHet Spook, John Pettit, after Frederick George Byron, 1789Spook’s Number by Rea Irvin, 1909, Life Magazine“Mountain Ghost,” illustration by Hwa San-chiuen (1930–2004)Frontispiece to Kwaidan Stories and Studies of Strange Things (1904), traditional Japanese ghost stories compiled by Lafcadio HearnDraugen, ca. 1891 The Sea Ghost, Theodor KittelsenThe Open Road For Boys Magazine ghost knightGeorge Grosz. Ghosts. 1934GhostbustersHow To Make Friends With A GhostFern Bisel Peat (US, 1893-1971) was art director of Play Mate magazine at this time. A girl dressed as a witch dances with another child dressed as a ghost. Leo A Ghost Story
Header illustration: Walter MacEwen – The Absent One on All Souls’ Day
Whether they appear wispy or solid, often a full-bodied, non-Bedsheet apparition is depicted in values of only one color, often white/grey or blue. If there is an exception, however, it will be for the eyes.
