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
Discours et histoires des spectres
Pierre le Loyer
1605French
Disputatio inauguralis philosophica De spectris
Philipp Casimir Schlosser
1693Latin
Dissertation sur les apparitions des esprits, et sur les vampires
Augustin Calmet, Poupart
1749French
Dissertazioni sopra le apparizioni de' spiriti
Augustin Calmet, Christian Deetjen
1770Italian
Diva Montis Sancti, seu Origines & miracula magnæ Dei hominvmqve matris Mariæ
Bohuslav Balbín
1665Latin
Diva Wartensis
Bohuslav Balbín
1655Latin
Drei Grünnasen, Alfred, der alte Schlossbutler.
Ümit Elveren
2025German
Duch bunkra
Janusz Christa
1990Polish
Dyalogus fratris Bernardi ordinis Carthusiensis imme[n]sa[m] et innumerabilem immaculate Dei genitricis Virginis Marie misericordia[m] per multa miracula atq[ue] exempla elucidans necnon amplificans
Bernardus Carthusiensis
1497Latin
Dyalogus fratris Bernardi ordinis Cartusiensis imme[n]sam et innumerabilem immaculate Dei genitricis Virginis Marie misericordia[m] per multa miracula atq[ue] exempla elucidans necnon amplificans
Bernardus Carthusiensis
1493Latin
Dziady
Adam Mickiewicz
1994Polish
Dämonen, Geister, dunkle Götter
Hans Biedermann
2022German
Edo no kaii to makai o saguru
Yoshiyuki Iikura, 飯倉義之
2020Japanese
Effigies fantastiques d’Europe centrale
Hélène Martinelli
2022French
Ein Fall für Posti und Stein
Marlene Hofmann, Maja Quaas
2026German
Ein kleines Gespenst zum Geburtstag
Annette Langen, Sabine Sauter
2025German
Eine Erinnerung an die englische Nation dass ein jeder die rechte Zeit wahrnehmen soll
Thomas Chamberlain
1756German
El abominable puerco de las nieves
Roberto Pavanello
2013Spanish
El abrazo del tentáculo
Roberto Pavanello
2013Spanish
El desvan de los duendes, o, Breve y escogida colección de cuentos, de aspiritus aparecidos, duendes, fantasmas, vampiros y demonios
Eustasio de Villaseñor y Acuña
1833Spanish
El veinte de octubre del año de 1811 en Coroico
Agustin Jimenes
1856Spanish
El árbol de las brujas
Ray Bradbury
2019Spanish
Elita jazdy polskiej
Michał Karpowicz
1995Polish
En bok om fantomer
Aris Fioretos
1996Swedish