Tradition 13 of 35
Ghosts, hauntings, and poltergeists
Apparitions, haunted places, poltergeists, ghost lore, and investigations of hauntings.
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- Books
- 2,520
- Earliest
- 1016
- to 2026
- Read free
- 41%
- 1,028 with public full text
- With covers
- 57%
How books qualify
- Query + metadata match2,409
- Metadata match87
- Query match14
- Source classification (retained through merging)10
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Key subjects
- Ghosts515
- Fiction342
- Apparitions338
- Ghost stories265
- Apparitions and miracles197
- Haunted houses161
- Haunted places133
- Juvenile fiction130
- History128
- Gespenst107
- Children's fiction103
- Early works to 1800102
- Fantômes89
- Poltergeists89
- Supernatural68
- Scotland67
- Horror tales66
- Social Sciences60
- Horror stories59
- occultism55
- holy ghost53
- Short Stories52
- Art51
- Folklore50
Top languages
- English1,427 · 57%
- French338 · 13%
- German219 · 9%
- Spanish103 · 4%
- Japanese57 · 2%
Notable authors
All authors- Robert Lawrence Stine29 in this tradition76 books
- Charles Dickens22 in this tradition38 books
- Daniel Defoe16 in this tradition33 books
- Ludwig Lavater13 in this tradition20 books
- Augustin Calmet12 in this tradition19 books
- Elliott O'Donnell12 in this tradition17 books
- Joseph Glanvill11 in this tradition19 books
- 叶兴阳双语音标有声读物10 in this tradition23 books
- Johann Heinrich Jung-Stilling10 in this tradition16 books
- Richard Baxter9 in this tradition33 books
- Algernon Blackwood8 in this tradition21 books
- Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu8 in this tradition19 books
2,520 books
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The Vampyre
John William Polidori, John Polidori, George Gordon Byron Byron, John Mitford
1819
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Apparitions and thought-transference: An Examination of the Evidence of Telepathy
Frank Podmore
1894
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Psychology as a natural science applied to the solution of occult psychic phenomena
Charles Godlove Raue, Harry Houdini Collection DLC, Harry Houdini Collection, Andrew Lang
1889
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The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
Andrew Lang, Traugott Konstantin Oesterreich
1897
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The night-side of nature, or, Ghosts and ghost seers
Catherine Crowe, Duke University. Library. Jantz Collection
1848
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The philosophy of mystery
Walter Cooper Dendy, Harry Houdini Collection DLC
1841
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Saducismus triumphatus, or, Full and plain evidence concerning witches and apparitions
Joseph Glanvill, Henry More, Anthony Horneck, Freeman Collins, Samuel Lowndes, William Faithorne, James Collins
1681
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Sketches of the philosophy of apparitions
Samuel Hibbert
1824
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The folklore of China, and its affinities with that of the Aryan and Semitic races
Nicholas Belfield Dennys, By Nicholas Belfield Dennys, Nicholas Belfield. [from old catalog] Dennys
1876
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The phantom world
Augustin Calmet, Henry Christmas, Abraham Hart, printer T.K. & P.G. Collins, Caroline Coddington Thayer, Harry Houdini Collection DLC
1746
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The popular superstitions and festive amusements of the Highlanders of Scotland
William Grant Stewart
1823
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll, John Tenniel, Lee and Shepard, Shepard & Dillingham Lee, John Wilson and Son, Charles Dickens, Anne Collins, Margaret Tarner, Arthur Conan Doyle, Maisha Books, Mary Shelley, Robert Louis Stevenson, Bram Storker, M. Bram Stocker, M. Philippe Ballin, Eve Paul-Margueritte in 1920, Bram Stolker, Bram BRAM STOKER, Braum Stoker, BramStoker, Warren Publishing Company, Esis Nem, Paper Mill Press Bram Stoker, Books Tor, Gustavo Aguilera, Classical Comics, Nik Maguire, Moon Dragon, Collectifs, Julio Rodríguez Puértolas, Hutchinson Emily, Period Time Publishing, D. P. Stevens Edition, Bryan Hunt, A. J. Alexander, Classic Collections, Stoker, Heinz Widtmann, Yordi Abreu, Bi Classics, Alex Stewart, Si tuo ke, BRAM STOCKER - E. NOBATI, Tabib Haider, Bram Stroker, Matthew Corrigan, Bram Stocker, Fernando Fernández, Anna Gasol Trullols, Andrew Struthers, Bram Bram, HellBound Books Publishing LLC, Christina Widmann, Rudyard Kipling, John Lockwood Kipling, Howard Pyle, Henry James, Louisa May Alcott, George Alfred Williams, Arthur Rackham, John Leech, Howard Bloom, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Washington Irving, Danide, Núria Pradas, Carmen Gil, Juan Antonio Molina Foix, Mario Montalbán, Leonard Wolf, ClassyBookRead, Destinyalready Creative Writing Ink, Fay Weldon, Bess Georges, Alba Pagán, David Stuart Davies, David Rogers, A. R. S. BEL, Ferdinand Du Chevalier, Abraham Stoker, Sarah Prescott, Alex Rouse, Bram Stoke, A. Nessi, Liz Lochhead, Lewis; Tenniel Carroll
1800
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Tales of old Japan
A. B. Mitford, Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford Redesdale
1871
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Ghost land, or, Researches into the mysteries of occultism
William Britten, Emma Hardinge Britten, Harry Houdini Collection DLC, Emma Britten, Harry Houdini Collection
1876
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Posthumous humanity: a study of phantoms
Adolphe d' Assier, Benno Loewy, Henry Steel Olcott, Harry Houdini Collection DLC
1883
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Ghosts - or the (Nearly) Invisible
Maria Fleischhack, Elmar Schenkel
2016
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The haunted house, a true ghost story
Walter Hubbell
1879
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Apparitions, or, The mystery of ghosts, hobgoblins, and haunted houses developed
Joseph Taylor
1814
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An essay on demonology, ghosts and apparitions, and popular superstitions
James Thacher
1831
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Theory of pneumatology
Johann Heinrich Jung -Stilling, Samuel Macauley Jackson, George Bush, Harry Houdini Collection DLC, Samuel Jackson, Harry Houdini Collection
1816
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A history of the ridiculous extravagancies of Monsieur Oufle
Laurent Bordelon, M Oufle, Abbot B-----
1711
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Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays
Bertrand Russell
1917
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Satan's invisible world discovered
George Sinclair
1746
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Footfalls on the Boundary of Another World
Robert Dale Owen, Harry Houdini Collection DLC
1860