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
Almost Futures
Thu-huong Nguyen-vo
2024
- Read free
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
1818
- Read free
Ghosts in Solid Form
Gambier Bolton
1919
- Read free
Ghosts in the Neighborhood
Walter Hatch
2023
- Read free
In a Glass Darkly
Sheridan Le Fanu
1872
- Read free
Missing persons, political landscapes and cultural practices
Laura Huttunen
2025
- Read free
The Lady of the Shroud
Bram Stoker
1909
- Read free
The Spirit of Global Health
Simon Peng-Keller, Raphael Rauch, Fabian Winiger
2022
- Read free
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Volume 1
Edgar Allan Poe
1850
- Read free
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Volume 2
Edgar Allan Poe
1850
- Read free
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Volume 3
Edgar Allan Poe
1850
- Read free
Angelographia, or A discourse concerning the nature and power of the holy angels, and the great benefit which the true fearers of God receive by their ministry: delivered in several sermons
Increase Mather
1696
- Read free
The Canterville Ghost
Oscar Wilde, Wallace Goldsmith, Lisbeth Zwerger
1887
- Read free
A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens, George Alfred Williams, Arthur Rackham, John Leech
1843
- Read free
Daimonologia: or, a treatise of spirits. Wherein several places of Scripture are expounded, against the vulgar errors concerning witchcraft, apparitions, etc. To which is added, an appendix, containing some reflections on Mr. Boulton's answer to Dr. Hutchinson's historical essay; entitled The possibility and reality of magick, sorcery and witchcraft demonstrated
Jacques de Daillon
1723
- Read free
De La Mettrie's Ghost
C Nunn
2005
- Read free
An adventure
Charlotte Anne Elizabeth Moberly, Eleanor Eleanor Frances Jourdain
1911
Lost City, Found Pyramid
Jeb J. Card, David Anderson, David S. Anderson
2016
- Read free
Short Stories
Algernon Blackwood
Date unknown
- Read free
The Ghost of Jerry Bundler
William Wymark Jacobs, Charles Rock
1908
- Read free
True Ghost Stories
Hereward Carrington
1915
- Read free
Famous Modern Ghost Stories
Dorothy Scarborough, Algernon Blackwood, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Robert W. Chambers, Леонид Николаевич Андреев, Anatole France, Fitz-James O'Brien, Ambrose Bierce, Olivia Howard Dunbar, Wilbur Daniel Steele, Myla Jo Closser, Edgar Allan Poe, Richard Le Gallienne, Arthur Machen, Guy de Maupassant, Dorothy 1878-1935 Scarborough, Ed Dorothy Scarborogh, Leonid Andreyev, Robert Robert William Chambers, William Fryer Harvey
1921
- Read free
Fiends, Ghosts, and Sprites
John Netten Radcliffe
1854
- Read free
Inferences from Haunted Houses and Haunted Men
John William Harris
1901