Tradition 13 of 33
Ghosts, hauntings, and poltergeists
Apparitions, haunted places, poltergeists, ghost lore, and investigations of hauntings.
Membership means relevance, not endorsement.
- 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
Sal, lumen, et spiritus mundi philosophici or the dawning of the day, discovered by the beams of light: shewing the true salt and secret of the philosophers, the first and universal spirit of the world
Ludwig Combach
1657
Spectral Arctic
2018
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Tales of terror; or, The mysteries of magic
Henry Clair
1848
- Read free
The Haunted and the Haunters, Or, The House and the Brain
Baron Lytton Edward Bulwer Lytton
1800
- Read free
The angels of Mons
Arthur Machen
1915
- Read free
The ghost-hunter and his family
John Banim
1852
- Read free
The phantom 'rickshaw
Rudyard Kipling
1800
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true & faithful relation of what passed for many yeers between ... John Dee ... and some spirits tending (had it succeeded) to a general alteration of most states and kingdomes in the world
John Dee
1659
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聊齋誌異
Pu Songling, Herbert Allen Giles
1869
Nāsōno naksư̄p witthayāsāt lēm sām tǭn tamnān mư̄ang hǣng khwām tāi
Midori Sato
2023Japanese
Shwūnkay arwāḥ
Kerstin Lundberg Hahn
2017PUS
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Der Weihnachtsabend
Charles Dickens, Julius Seybt
Date unknownGerman
Katariina kaaperdab kooli
Tiina Laanem
2022Estonian
Nadzieja uskrzydla
Bruno Dequier
2023French
The ghost comes calling
Betty Ren Wright
1994
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Ghosts in the attic
Florentin Smarandache
2015
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Der übernatürliche Philosoph, oder, Die Geheimnisse der Magie
Daniel Defoe
1742German
Intimate Alien
David J. Halperin, David David Joel Halperin
2020
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L'histoire des imaginations extravagantes de Monsieur Oufle
Laurent Bordelon
1710French
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Richard Baxters Gewissheit der Geister
Richard Baxter
1755German
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Send-Schreiben an einige Theologos und Gottes-Gelehrte betreffend die Frage ob Gott nach der Auffahrt Christi nicht mehr heutiges Tages durch göttliche Erscheinung den Menschenkindern sich offenbahren wolle und sich dessen gantz begeben habe?
Johann Wilhelm Petersen
1691German
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Ueber Gespenster in Sage und Dichtung
Karl Robert Pabst
1867German
Something Upstairs
Avi
1988
Haunted
Meg Cabot
2003