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
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The Book of common prayer: with notes, selected and arranged by R. Mant
[author not identified]
1840
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The British and Foreign Evangelical Review
Paterson M.D, . H. Sinclair
1881
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The Shape of Fear, and Other Ghostly Tales
Elia Wilkinson Peattie
1898
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The authenticated report of the discussion ... in ... the Roman Catholic college of Downside ...
Downside sch, Edward Tottenham
1836
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The baptist Magazine
[author not identified]
1821

The siren call of hungry ghosts
Joe Fisher
2001
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Theorie de Geister-kunde: In einer Natur-, Vernunst- und bibelmäsigen ...
Johann Heinrich Jung -Stilling
1808German
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Verdadera devocion á la Santisima Virgen: y explicacion de los principales misterios de Nuestra Santa Fe Catolica contenidos en el credo y articulos
Mariano Eusebio Toledo
1798Spanish
Victorian Hauntings
Julian Wolfreys
2002
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the british and foreign evangelical review
H. Sinclair Paterson, M.d
1882
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The Penguin Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poë, Will Self
2021

Ghost stories; collected with a particular view to counteract the vulgar belief in ghost and apparitions
1865
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A parody on [Thomas Hood's] 'Mary's ghost'; or, the doctors and body-snatchers. A pathetic tale, with numerous additions
Thomas Hood
1829
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A treatise of specters or straunge sights, visions and apparitions appearing sensibly unto men. Wherein is delivered, the nature of spirites, angels, and divels: their power and properties: as also of witches, sorcerers, enchanters, and such like ... Newly done out of French into English
Pierre Le Loyer, Zachary Jones
1605
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Awas-i-hind: Or, A Voice from the Ganges; Being a Solution of the True ...
1861
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Cambrian superstitions, comprising ghosts, omens, witchcraft, traditions, &c. To which are added, a concise view of the manners and customs of the Principality, and some fugitive pieces
William Howells
1831
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Gespenster lebender Personen und andere telepathische Erscheinungen
E Gurney, Frederic William Henry Myers, F Podmore
1896
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Miranda's ghosts
Udo Weigelt
1828
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News from the invisible world ; or interesting anecdotes of the dead. Containing a particular survey of the most remarkable and well authenticated accounts of apparitions, ghosts, spectres, dreams and visions
John Wesley, D Simpson
1815
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Novels (Christmas Carol / Cricket on the Hearth)
Charles Dickens
1870
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Novena to Our Lady of Lourdes
1876
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Rip Van Winkle and Sleepy Hollow
Washington Irving
1867
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Saducismus triumphatus: or, full and plain evidence concerning witches and apparitions. With some account of Mr. Glanvil's life and writings
Joseph Glanvill
1726
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Sir W-l-r- Ra-l-gh's ghost, which appear'd to Sir R--t [i.e. Robert Walpole] ... with his reprimand for laying new imposts on tobacco, which he first introduc'd into England
Walter Raleigh, Robert Walpole
1733