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
- Read free
Strange Stories from the Lodge of Leisures
Songling Pu, Georges Soulié de Morant
Date unknown
- Read free
A Treatise Of Specters Or Straunge Sights, Visions And Apparitions ( 1605)
1605
- Read free
The Headless Horseman: A Strange Tale of Texas
Mayne Reid
Date unknown
- Read free
A Thin Ghost and Others
Montague Rhodes James
Date unknown
Ghosts
Raina Telgemeier
2016
- Read free
The Ghost Pirates
William Hope Hodgson
Date unknown
- Read free
Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things
Lafcadio Hearn
Date unknown
The believing brain
Michael Shermer
2011
- Read free
Carnacki, the Ghost Finder
William Hope Hodgson
Date unknown
- Read free
The Ghost-Seer; or the Apparitionist; and Sport of Destiny
Friedrich Schiller
Date unknown
- Read free
Les contes de Ch. Dickens. Série 1. Les apparitions de Noël
Charles Dickens
1847French
- Read free
The Ghost Kings
H. Rider Haggard
Date unknown
- Read free
The Jolly Corner
Henry James
Date unknown
- Read free
The Haunted Mind (From "Twice Told Tales")
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Date unknown
- Read free
The Shunned House
Howard Phillips Lovecraft
Date unknown
- Read free
The Tapestried Chamber, and Death of the Laird's Jock
Walter Scott
Date unknown
- Read free
Mary Rose
James Matthew Barrie
Date unknown
- Read free
De groote betoovering
Selma Lagerlöf, Margaretha Meijboom
Date unknownDutch
- Read free
Die erste Stunde nach dem Tode: Eine Gespenstergeschichte
Max Brod
Date unknownGerman
- Read free
Eräitä kertoelmia
Herbert George Wells
Date unknownFinnish
- Read free
Kauhujen talo
Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton
Date unknownFinnish
- Read free
L'apparition : roman
Lucie Delarue-Mardrus
Date unknownFrench
- Read free
Severins Gang in die Finsternis: Ein Prager Gespensterroman
Paul Leppin, Richard Teschner
Date unknownGerman
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搜神後記
Qian Tao
Date unknownChinese