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
Era
Odysseus
Όμηρος
1898
Right is might, and other sketches
Samuel G. Goodrich
1854
Rip van Winkle and The legend of Sleepy Hollow
Washington Irving, George Henry Boughton
1893
Sad and wonderful newes from the faulcon at the bank side
1661
Scotland the grave
Jeff Fallow
2010
Scotland's ghosts
1988
Seven ghosts
Chris Priestley
2019
Spookball champions
Scoular Anderson
2005
Spooks
Katja Beskow
1975
Strange and true news from Long-Ally in More-Fields, Southwark, and Wakefield in Yorkshire
1661
Strange and wonderful news from Exeter
1690
Strange and wonderful news from Linconshire [sic], or, A dreadful account of a most inhumane and bloody murther committed upon the body of one Mr. Carter, by the contrivance of his elder brother, who had soon after found out, by the appearance of a most dreadful and terrible ghost, sent by Almighty Providence for the discovery
1679
Strange and wonderful news from Northampton-shire, or, The discontented spirit
1675
Strange ne[w]es
1606
Supernatural Scotland
Eileen Dunlop
2011
The Child's plain path-way to eternal life: or, An heavenly messenger.
1793
The Child's plain path-way to eternal life: or, An heavenly messenger.
1793
The Child's plain path-way to eternal life; or An heavenly messenger.
1775
The Child's plain path-way to eternal life; or An heavenly messenger.
1765
The Child's plain path-way to eternal life; or An heavenly messenger.
1765
The Child's plain path-way to eternal life; or An heavenly messenger.
1791
The Countrey-miser, or, The Unhappy farmers dear market
1693
The Fearful child
American Sunday-School Union
1827
The Morristown ghost.
1896