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
Calomel in America
Richard M Swiderski
2008
Can we explain the poltergeist?
A. R. G. Owen
1964
Christmas ghosts
Kathryn Cramer, David G Hartwell
1988
Coast of saints, coast of ghosts
Peter F Ryder
2024
Collins gem
Karen Hurrell
2000
Crap ghosts
Gavin Inglis
2004
Dancing with ghosts
Graeme K Talboys
2024
Darwin's ghosts
Rebecca Stott
2012
Das Seltsame und das Gespenstische
Mark Fisher, Robert Zwarg, Christian Werthschulte
2025
Dealings with the dead
Anatole Le Braz
1898
Dear happy ghosts
Willie Hunter
1990
Death in medieval Europe
Joëlle Rollo-Koster
2017
Death-drive
Robert Rowland Smith
2010
Den duyvel van Tedworth, ofte een historie van spookery
Joseph Glanvill
1692Dutch
Dissertations upon the apparitions of angels, daemons, and ghosts, and concerning the vampires of Hungary, Bohemia, Moravia, and Silesia
Augustin Calmet, François Poupart
1759
Drama
Charles Barron
1999
Dreamland and ghostland
Arthur Conan Doyle
1887
England's timely remembrancer, or, The minister preaching his own funeral sermon
Thomas Chamberlain
1752
Fair Isle ghosts
Carol Tweedie
2015
Fantômes dans l'Extrême-Orient d'hier et d'aujourd'hui
Marie Laureillard, Vincent Durand-Dastès, Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales
2017Chinese
Fearfull prodigies in Italy, seene neere the citie of Rome, in the aire, between the Castle Angelo and the Vatican
Antonio Di Sofi
1643
Food of ghosts
Marianne Wheelaghan
2012
For all the ghosts that live in me
Mark Vernon Thomas
2025
Geister
Eva Reifert
2025