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
A true relation of the horrid ghost of a woman, which hath frequently been seen in various habits, in the house of Nicholas Broaday, at the Three Mariners in Depthford, upon the third, fourth and sixth of this instant April, 1673
Peter Griffith
1673
A vision
Hezekiah Goodwin
1769
A wee guide to Scottish ghosts and bogles
Martin Coventry
2000
A wee guide to the haunted castles of Scotland
Martin Coventry
1996
Aidan Chambers' book of ghosts and hauntings
Aidan Chambers
1973
Alluring monsters
Rosalind Galt
2021
American nightmares
Dale Bailey
1999
An Essay for the recording of illustrious providences: wherein an account is given of many remarkable and very memorable events
Increase Mather
1684
An account of the apparition of the late Lord Kilmarnock, to the Rev. Mr. Foster
James Foster
1747
An account of the beginning, transactions and discovery, of Ransford Rogers, who seduced many by pretended hobgoblins and apparitions, and thereby extorted money from their pockets
Philanthropist
1792
An account of the late wonderful American vision, exhibiting the judgments that must shortly come to pass
Jacob Bailey Moore Pamphlet Collection
1791
An anthology of the best ghost stories from Bengal
Barnali Saha
2023Bengali
An essay on capacity and genius
William Andrew Mitchell
1820
And ghosts shall drive you on
Michael F. A Woodruff
1976
Angelographia
Increase Mather, Hugh Boscawen Viscount Falmouth
1696
Apparitions, a new theory
Newton Crosland
1856
Appearances of the dead
Ronald C. Finucane
1982
Around Iceland with the ghosts
Aðalsteinn Svanur Sigfússon, Símon Jón Jóhannsson, Ívar Gissurarson, Quentin Bates, Guðjón Ingi Hauksson
2025
Authors' ghosts
Muriel Spark
2004
Bannkörbe
Aladin Borioli, Bas Blaasse, Sylee Gore, Sylvia Zirden, Veronika Epple
2024
Beauraing and other apparitions
Herbert Thurston
1934
Black ghosts
Noo Saro-Wiwa
2023
Bogles =
John McDonald
2024
Brody's ghost
Mark Crilley
2010