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
Era
Ghosts and other spectres
Anita Ganeri
2012
Ghosts galore
1974
Ghosts, &c.!
1827
Ghosts, smugglers and secrets of Britain's inns
1974
Guide to the haunted castles of Scotland
1981
Harvey Angell and the ghost child
Diana Hendry
1997
Scotland the grave
Jeff Fallow
2010
Scotland's ghosts
1988
Seven ghosts
Chris Priestley
2019
Spookball champions
Scoular Anderson
2005
Spooks
Katja Beskow
1975
Strange and true news from Long-Ally in More-Fields, Southwark, and Wakefield in Yorkshire
1661
Supernatural Scotland
Eileen Dunlop
2011
The Child's plain path-way to eternal life: or, An heavenly messenger.
1793
The Child's plain path-way to eternal life; or An heavenly messenger.
1765
The Countrey-miser, or, The Unhappy farmers dear market
1693
The constant lovers, or, Jemmy and Nancy of Yarmouth
1840
The dead brought to life
1780
The goast [sic] of Benjamin Binns
1880
The minister preaching his own funeral sermon
1790
The ship of ghosts
Gillian Philip
2015
The worlds wonder
1659
Thrummy Cap, and the ghaist, a diverting tale
1800
Visits from the world of spirits
1840