Tradition 13 of 33
Ghosts, hauntings, and poltergeists
Apparitions, haunted places, poltergeists, ghost lore, and investigations of hauntings.
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- Books
- 2,446
- Earliest
- 1016
- to 2026
- Read free
- 40%
- 971 with public full text
- With covers
- 57%
How books qualify
- Query + metadata match2,349
- Metadata match79
- Query match14
- Source classification (retained through merging)4
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Key subjects
- Ghosts494
- Fiction335
- Apparitions332
- Ghost stories258
- Apparitions and miracles197
- Haunted houses152
- Juvenile fiction130
- Haunted places129
- History122
- Gespenst107
- Children's fiction102
- Early works to 180097
- Fantômes89
- Poltergeists88
- Scotland65
- Supernatural65
- Horror tales60
- Social Sciences60
- Horror stories58
- holy ghost53
- occultism52
- Art51
- Short Stories51
- Fiction, horror46
Top languages
- English1,410 · 58%
- French339 · 14%
- German209 · 9%
- Spanish103 · 4%
- Japanese57 · 2%
Notable authors
All authors- Robert Lawrence Stine29 in this tradition54 books
- Charles Dickens22 in this tradition29 books
- Daniel Defoe16 in this tradition31 books
- Ludwig Lavater12 in this tradition19 books
- Augustin Calmet12 in this tradition18 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 tradition13 books
- Richard Baxter9 in this tradition29 books
- Algernon Blackwood8 in this tradition13 books
- Hans Holzer8 in this tradition13 books
- Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu8 in this tradition11 books
2,446 books
Era
The astrologer of the nineteenth century, or, The master key of futurity and guide to ancient mysteries
1825
The constant lovers, or, Jemmy and Nancy of Yarmouth
1840
The dead brought to life
1780
The five strange wonders, in the north and west of England
1659
The friendly monitor, or, Dialogues for youth against the fear of ghosts, and other irrational apprehensions
Mary Weightman
1791
The ghost of Greythorn Manor
Robina F. Hardy
1888
The goast [sic] of Benjamin Binns
1880
The minister preaching his own funeral sermon
1790
The minister preaching his own funeral sermon
1790
The minister preaching his own funeral sermon.
1781
The minister preaching his own funeral sermon.
1784
The minister preaching his own funeral sermon.
1793
The mystery of Hoyle's mouth, or, The adventures of two runaway boys
Mary E. Ropes
1898
The new fairy book
William Andrews
1895
The ship of ghosts
Gillian Philip
2015
The timely remembrancer, or The minister preaching his own funeral sermon
1790
The timely remembrancer, or The minister preaching his own funeral sermon
1788
The vvonder of vvonders, or, a true relation of a late strange and miraculous accident that happened to one that dyed in the ship called, the Dunbar, who after he had been buried one shore above five daies, rise again, and standing upright in his grave, called to the fleet with a shrill voice at noon-day, telling them the events that should happen to all those ships that went towards the sound. With the several speeches made by him, to the wonderful astonishment and admiration of divers of the fleet, who were both hearers and eye-witnesses, and will justifie the truth of this great miracle. With a great and strange apparition of two armies that appeared in the north of England on Thursday last, with the exact manner of their engaging one another at noon-day with the thundring noise both of great and small shot
1659
The vvonderful blazing star
1681
Thrummy Cap, and the ghaist, a diverting tale
1800
Visits from the world of spirits
1840
Comedia famosa, El diablo esta en Cantillana
Luis Velez de Guevara
[ohne Jahresangabe]Spanish
Das Buch des Scharfrichters. ... vermehrt hrsg
Franz Gräffer
####German
Das Gespenst mit der langen Hand. Lustspiel in 3 Aufz. 2. Aufl
Leonhard Friedrich
[ohne Jahresangabe]German