Tradition 13 of 33
Ghosts, hauntings, and poltergeists
Apparitions, haunted places, poltergeists, ghost lore, and investigations of hauntings.
Membership means relevance, not endorsement.
- Books
- 1,550
- Earliest
- 1498
- to 2026
- Read free
- 33%
- 516 with public full text
- With covers
- 55%
How books qualify
- Query + metadata match1,477
- Metadata match57
- Query match14
- Source classification (retained through merging)2
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Key subjects
- Ghosts342
- Fiction246
- Ghost stories194
- Haunted places129
- Apparitions109
- Gespenst106
- History97
- Fantômes88
- Juvenile fiction85
- Poltergeists85
- Children's fiction78
- Haunted houses64
- Scotland63
- Social Sciences60
- Supernatural50
- Art47
- Horror stories47
- Horror tales47
- Short Stories45
- Arts and Humanities41
- Ghosts, fiction39
- Literature36
- Text35
- Apparitions and miracles34
Top languages
- English999 · 64%
- German152 · 10%
- French106 · 7%
- Japanese55 · 4%
- Spanish49 · 3%
Notable authors
All authors- Robert Lawrence Stine25 in this tradition49 books
- Charles Dickens19 in this tradition22 books
- 叶兴阳双语音标有声读物10 in this tradition23 books
- Algernon Blackwood8 in this tradition13 books
- Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu8 in this tradition11 books
- Roberto Pavanello8 books
- Daniel Defoe7 in this tradition11 books
- Georg Adam Keyser7 books
- Elliott O'Donnell6 in this tradition11 books
- Joseph Lewis French6 in this tradition7 books
- Edgar Allan Poe5 in this tradition15 books
- Hans Holzer5 in this tradition10 books
1,550 books
- Read free
The White People
Frances Hodgson Burnett
1917
- Read free
The haunted house, a true ghost story
Walter Hubbell
1879
- Read free
Amongst Aliens and Ghosts
Edda Starck
2023
- Read free
Ghost-Managed Medicine
Sergio Sismondo
2018
- Read free
Ghosts of Colonies Past and Present
Mary L Coffey
2020
- Read free
In the Seven Mountains
Henry W Shoemaker
1913
- Read free
Paranormal Britain
Christopher D Bader, Joseph O Baker, Tom Clark
2026
- Read free
Storied and Supernatural Places
Daniel Sävborg, Ülo Valk
2018
- Read free
The Dance Partner
Diane Glancy
2005
- Read free
The Funeral of Mr. Wang
Andrew B Kipnis
2021
- Read free
The Uncanny Child in Transnational Cinema
Jessica Balanzategui
2017
- Read free
Strindberg's Ghost Sonata
Egil Törnqvist
2000
- Read free
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
Montague Rhodes James
1904
- Read free
Three Ghost Stories
Charles Dickens
2008
- Read free
The Haunted Bookshop
Christopher Morley
1919
- Read free
Daimonologia, or, A treatise of spirits
Jacques de Daillon
1723
- Read free
Wandering ghosts
F. Marion Crawford, M. Leone Bracker
Date unknown
- Read free
The certainty of the worlds of spirits, and consequently, of the immortality of souls. of the malice and misery of the devils, and the damned. And of the blessedness of the justified
Richard Baxter, Colonel Henry Hamlyn Fane, David Laing Philips
1691
- Read free
Visits from the world of spirits, or, Interesting anecdotes of the dead ...
1791
- Read free
An Essay on Demonology, Ghosts and Apparitions, and Popular Superstitions
James Thacher
1831
- Read free
A treatise on the second sight, dreams and apparitions; with several instances sufficiently attested, and an appendix of others equally authentic; The whole illustrated with letters to and from the author on the subject of his treatise; and a short dissertation on the mischievous effects of loose principles
Donald Macleod
1763
- Read free
1870 Ghost Dance
Cora Du Bois
2007
- Read free
An historical, physiological and theological treatise of spirits, apparitions, witchcrafts, and other magical practices ...
John Beaumont
1705
- Read free
Theater and Crisis
Patrice D Rankine
2024