Hans Shund, thief, usurer, and nightwalker, is a most striking illustration of my assertion.
"The Progressionists, and Angela."
Conrad von Bolanden
"The Fatal Marriage, or the Innocent Adultery" introduces the Enoch Arden story, attached to an outrageous comic underplot derived in part from Fletcher's "nightwalker."
"Tragedy"
Ashley H. Thorndike
You'll find me troublesome, too, Mr. nightwalker: so take good counsel, and be off while you've whole bones, or I'll tumble you now in half a minute from your crittur, and give you a sharp supper of pine-knots.
"Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia"
William Gilmore Simms