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
The reawakening
Fahey family
2000
The secret history of poltergeists and haunted houses
Claude Lecouteux
2012
"Gerade wenn es mit den Gespenstern aus ist, geht das rechte Zeitalter für ihre Geschichte an"
Christina Gallo
2009German
A la luz de los prodigios
Gonzalo Gil Gonzalez
2011Spanish
Alles Gespenster!
Silvia Bartholl, Helga Gebert
1993German
Anne löst das Gespenster-Geheimnis
Sabine Rahn, Birgit Rieger
2000German
Die Abenteuer vom Gespenst Zeigerrum
Dieter Pohler
2025German
Les phénomènes de hantise
Ernesto Bozzano
1920French
Spøgelser og sagn fra danske slotte og herregårde
Gorm Rosencrone von Benzon, Gorm Benzon
1998Danish
Vom Gespenst, das nicht allein sein wollte
Gareth Ryans
2026German
A christmas carol in prose. Being a ghost story of christmas. 3. Aufl
Charles Dickens
1920
Advertencias Marianas a la humanidad
Luis Eduardo Lopez Padilla
1988Spanish
Arme Seelen erscheinen in Oberschlesien 1945/46
Elfriede Kudera
1981German
Can ghosts arise?
A. B Macdonald
1946
Jiao chou ji
Tao Zou
1879Chinese
L'ermite et le revenant
Louis P. Legay
1823French
Les Hôtes invisibles
Guy Lyon Playfair, Michel Damien
1978French
Poltergeist
Lorenzo Fernández Bueno
2002Spanish
Pravdivye rasskazy o poltergeĭste i procheĭ nezhiti na ovine, v izbe i bane
K. Shumov
1993Russian
Seres míticos y personajes fantásticos españoles
Manuel Martín Sánchez
2002Spanish
Ufo von Freysingen, oder, Die durch Zauberkraft blank gewordene Rüstung
Joseph Alois Falckh
1824German
Yi jian zhi
Mai Hong
1879Chinese
'Your fathers the ghosts'
Tom F Cunningham
2007
9/11 gothic
Danel Olson
2021