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
- Read free
Old Mr. Wiley
Greye La Spina
Date unknown
- Read free
Our Lady of the Pillar
Eça de Queirós, Edgar Prestage
Date unknown
- Read free
Over the Wire
Eugene Jones
Date unknown
- Read free
Pausanias, the Spartan; The Haunted and the Haunters
Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton, Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton Lytton
Date unknown
- Read free
Pledged to the Dead
Seabury Quinn
Date unknown
- Read free
Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories
Ambrose Bierce
Date unknown
- Read free
Real Ghost Stories
William Thomas Stead, Estelle Estelle Wilson Stead
Date unknown
- Read free
Sam's Ghost
William Wymark Jacobs, Will Owen
Date unknown
- Read free
Scottish Ghost Stories
Elliott O'Donnell
Date unknown
- Read free
Some Haunted Houses of England & Wales.
Elliott O'Donnell
Date unknown
- Read free
Sonnets of Shakespeare's Ghost
Gregory Thornton, Willem Blaeu
Date unknown
- Read free
St. Andrews Ghost Stories
William Thomas Linskill
Date unknown
- Read free
Tales for Christmas Eve
Rhoda Broughton
Date unknown
- Read free
Tales of the Wonder Club, Volume I
M. Y Halidom, John Jellicoe, Val R Prince
Date unknown
- Read free
Tales of the Wonder Club, Volume II
M. Y Halidom, John Jellicoe, Val R Prince
Date unknown
- Read free
Tales of the Wonder Club, Volume III
M. Y Halidom, John Jellicoe, Val R Prince
Date unknown
- Read free
Tales of the uneasy
Violet Hunt
Date unknown
- Read free
Tedious brief tales of Granta and Gramarye
Arthur Gray, E. Joyce Shillington Scales
Date unknown
- Read free
The Abbot's Ghost, or Maurice Treherne's Temptation: A Christmas Story
Louisa May Alcott
Date unknown
- Read free
The Abiding Presence of the Holy Ghost in the Soul
Bede Jarrett
Date unknown
- Read free
The Alleged Haunting of B—— House
Ada Goodrich-Freer, John Patrick Crichton-Stuart Bute
Date unknown
- Read free
The Best Ghost Stories
Joseph Lewis French, Arthur Arthur Benjamin Reeve
Date unknown
- Read free
The Black Ghost of the Highway
Gertrude Linnell
Date unknown
- Read free
The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories
Algernon Blackwood
Date unknown