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
The a-z of paranormal Scotland
Ron Halliday
2000
The big grey man of Ben MacDhui
Affleck Gray
1989
The ghost with trembling wings
Scott Weidensaul
2002
The ghostly and the ghosted in literature and film
Lisa Kröger, Melanie Anderson
2013
The ghosts of 2012
Graham Hurley
2009
The ghosts of Cathkin Park
Michael McEwan
2021
The ghosts of Dartmouth
Christine Donnelly
2019
The ghosts of Gallows Cross
Terrance Dicks
1984
The ghosts of Glamis Castle
Harrison Watson
2015
The ghosts of Glencoe
Mollie Hunter
1994
The ghosts of Hiraeth Heath
Barry Dominic Graham
2020
The ghosts of the forest
William A Young
2022
The ghosts, spirits and spectres of Scotland
Francis Thompson
1973
The haunted Borders
Norrie McLeish
1997
The haunted North
Graeme Milne
2008
The haunted North two
Graeme Milne
2012
The haunted blizzard
Aviaq Johnston, Athena Gubbe
2025
The haunted book
Jeremy Dyson
2012
The perturbed self
Mengxing Fu, Taylor & Francis
2022
The posthumous adventures of Harry Whitaker
Bobbie Darbyshire
2019
The spectralities reader
María del Pilar Blanco, Esther Peeren
2013
The spirit of Dr. Bindelof
Rosemarie Pilkington
2006
Unbidden guests
William Oliver Stevens
1945
Uncanny modernity
Jo Collins, John Jervis
2008