King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard: “I am not a literary man, though very devoted to the Old Testament and also to the "Ingoldsby Legends."”
Allan Quatermain by H. Rider Haggard: “But it seemed to me that there was yet something wanting, and so I produced a Prayer-Book, which has, together with the 'Ingoldsby Legends', that I often read when I lie awake at night, accompanied me in all my later wanderings.”
Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers: “spirited away like the lady in the ‘Ingoldsby Legends,’ body and bones.”
A Damsel in Distress by P. G. Wodehouse: “one of those silk-and-satined little treasures she had read about in the Ingoldsby Legends.”
Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes: “Did you ever read Thomas Ingoldsby's "Legend of Hamilton Tighe"?”