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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Anne Rice
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Scott Westerfeld
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Alfred Hitchcock, Fred Banbery
1961

All the lovely bad ones
Mary Downing Hahn
2008

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Cameron Banks
2002

Amulet
Kazu Kibuishi
2008

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Kendare Blake
2011

Bad Girls Don't Die
Katie Alender
2009

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Ben Clanton
2017

Camp fear
M. D. Spenser
1997

Can You See What I See? On a Scary, Scary Night
Walter Wick
2008

Casper
Laura M. Rossiter
1995

Christina's Ghost
Betty Ren Wright
1985

Christopher Pike's #2 tales of terror
Christopher Pike
1998

Deep and dark and dangerous
Mary Downing Hahn
2007

Devil pony
Matt Christopher
1977

Don't read this book before bed!
Anna Claybourne, National Geographic Kids Staff
2017

Dorrie and the Haunted House
Patricia Coombs
1970
Economies of Death
2015

Fear Street - Secret Admirer
Robert Lawrence Stine
1996

Fear Street - The Confession
Robert Lawrence Stine
1996